Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“Young people are turned off by the doom and gloom that comes with haggling over the peak date and imagining how difficult and different life will be on the other side of Hubbert’s curve. We believe you when you say it’s going to peak, and those who don’t will when it’s properly explained. We don’t need to be converted, we need to be motivated.”
The new sage of Wall Street: author of The Black Swan
Reinventing Reality (or Collapse Sandwich) – Orlov and Pinchbeck (podcast)
Portland Freedom Tribe 2010: from Palin to Paradise
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has earnestly explained this past week that bad lending practices are the No. 1 cause of the collapse of the U.S. financial system. What would he prefer to have as the primary cause of the collapse of the U.S. financial system?
Educating family, loved ones, and friends about Peak Oil and its impacts is a formidable challenge. Families that have a common understanding of Peak Oil problems can provide mutual support and group problem-solving, and they are more likely enjoy life and survive the Peak Oil catastrophe.
Earth Democracy – notes on Vandana Shiva
The old future’s gone (audio)
Ordinary human poverty
In February of this year, I wrote The Five Stages of Collapse, connecting each stage of collapse – financial, commercial, political, social and cultural – with a specific mental milestone, where faith in some aspect of our status quo is shattered in the face of dramatically altered circumstances.
With his book “Reinventing Collapse”, Dmitry Orlov reports to us from a collapse that he has actually experienced with the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia’s past is our future and Orlov’s book is a time machine to there.
Ecocities emerging
For good neighbours, live in a quiet, car-free street
Rejoice! It’s time to reclaim the car park
These are the slides and text for a presentation given at the ASPO-USA conference September 21-23.
In these ten minutes, I’d like to provide a context for the discussion. I’d like to paint a broadbrush picture of where we were, and where we are going. It will be from the viewpoint of someone inside the movement looking out.
From the grassroots, rather than from the media.
Instead of eating to diet, they’re eating to enjoy
US university campuses ban cafeteria trays in effort to go green
Australian farmers go green as petrol prices rise
Plants in forest emit aspirin chemical to deal with stress
An unlikely marriage: organic farmers and genetic engineering
What is so wonderful about Albert’s talk is the incredible story he tells about what can be achieved when people work together to make something happen. The story of hundreds of middle-class city hippy kids turning up on 1000 acres of poor farmland in Tennessee and having to work out how to grow food, build houses, make electricity and so on, is a great story for our times, showing what the combination of circumstance, passion and necessity can draw out of us.
Americans may have a vulnerable Achilles heel made up of two gulfs: the Gulf of Mexico and the Persian Gulf .
This paper will look at how hurricane activity in the Gulf of Mexico, and a selection of other world events in the Persian Gulf, could turn off the oil spigot and bring the USA to a critical standstill, highlighting the urgency for the development of a different civilization, free of addiction to massive doses of oil.
