Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The breathtaking expansion of the Internet and the sources of information now available on it have served to conjure a cybernetic vision of unlimited growth–growth that can never be slowed for long by lack of physical resources because it is mostly virtual.
The Spike and the Peak
The rhythm of rest and excess
Downward Spiral’s Silver Lining: End of Lonely Plastic Culture
Is This The End Of Wealth Creation?
The Icelandic Volcano Erupts
¡Que se vayan todos! – that’s the global backlash talking
Climate Wars
Transition Network’s ‘Who We Are and What We Do’ Document Available
Adapting In Place: Whether, Why and Wherefore Ought Thou
Buried treasure: Vermonters rediscover root cellars
Trashing the Fridge
Europe leads effort to push for design of “green” drugs
Library of the future?
Dependency time-bomb
Two children should be limit, says green guru in UK
The Growth Imperative
Sharon Astyk: What’s a Doomer Chick to Do?
James Lovelock interview
Exxon: Juggernaut or Dinosaur?
Time to toll the warning bells
Utilities Turn Their Customers Green, With Envy
After fielding multiple requests for a reading list on the end of the industrial age, the Archdruid suggests ten books that might just cast a necessary light on the crisis of our time.
Carl Pope, head of the Sierra Club, in a January 22, 2009 article entitled “Moving the U.S. off Carbon with Less Pain, More Gain” takes issue with Bill McKibben’s November 5, 2008 article entitled “President Obama’s Big Climate Challenge.” McKibben identifies the scale and risk of the challenge noting it will be unpopular and could damage Obama’s political future.
The True 21st Century Begins
The globalisation of addiction
Unwinding Complexity and the Collapse of Societies
Peak oil: a symptom, not a cause
Auto sales are worst in 26 years
The high cost of bad driving habits
The Challenge of Sustainable Transportation: Prospects for Switzerland and the U.S
