Web – July 10
Has the internet killed the joys of sitting down with a good book?
Protect the web, says Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Getting ‘wiki’ with it?
Culture & Behavior
Solutions & sustainability – July 9
Recovery parks, free geeks and plasma: Vancouver debates zero waste
Peak toil
Peak toil: A fable of the future?
It’s happening in Belgium, Scotland, and Spain, in India, South Korea, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Italy, Portugal, Greece, France…
What might we expect from the average working-class American, as economics in this country continue to worsen? Will they organize in labor unions or protest as isolated individuals expressing their individual sense of hopelessness and despair? Will it be sparked by some “organized” movement, or from some shift in their internal emotional reality? Frank Lee gives his future fantasy version of what he sees could be coming, and folks, it isn’t pretty…Kathy McMahon
Solutions & sustainability – July 8
Should you dress down to beat the heat?
Over 1,000 participants in Biofuel Cities European Partnership
Energy guru offers Exmouth self-sufficiency blueprint
Housing & urban design – July 8
With gas over $4, cities explore whether it’s smart to be dense
Will gas prices drive homebuyers away from suburbs?
Suburbia’s not dead yet
Three types of doomers and fantasy collapse
The payoffs and foibles of viewing the world through a “Doomer” perspective.
Which future should we prepare for, industrial or agrarian?
The more Harrison Brown talks about the future of industrial society, the more unlikely it seems that it has a future. Brown is the author of a seminal book entitled “The Challenge of Man’s Future” which outlines the ecological predicament we find ourselves in today. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Brown’s book is that it was published in 1954 long before our predicament had taken its full shape and when there were only about 2.6 billion people on Earth.
Energy, ecology and crisis – July 4
Nate Hagens and the Maximum Power Principle
Ecology – the moment of truth (Monthly Review special)
Looking at the big moral question
Nicholas von Hoffman: Talking points for an energy crisis
Lessons from amateur radio
Too many visions of the future treat today’s particular form of technological society as the only form there is. A glance at one of today’s many technological subcultures shows that other alternatives exist — and some may be much better suited than our present form to the needs of a postpeak world.
What lifestyles without oil?
At the Tällberg Forum in Tällberg, Dalarna, Sweden, Chief Jake Swamp from the Akwesasne Mohawk Tribe and I had a conversation about “What lifestyles without oil?”.
Crisis & collapse – July 3
New book from John Michael Greer: The Long Descent
A Crash course in burning bridges (Zachary Nowak interview)
Alex Steffen: Resilient community
The end Of civilization
Peak oil – July 2
Peak oil: IEA inches toward the pessimists’ camp
R. James Woolsey, former CIA director, on energy security (interview)
Saudi oil project brings skepticism to the surface (Khurais)
Cutler Cleveland: Energy transitions past and future
Will wartime mobilisation address peak oil?
