Deep thought – Mar 11
How The Limits to Growth was demonized
Alex Steffen: Zero, now
Jeff Vail: Rhizome at the community level
Culture & Behavior
A work of imagination
Our futures, personal and collective, depend as much on our imagination as the brute facts. If there is one thing that imagination makes possible, it is to believe that we are not necessarily limited by our past.
Deep thought – Mar 8
The New Green Deal of 2009
Can we survive?
Norman Church: The elephant in the room
Personal survival in a world gone mad
Peak oil – Mar 8
The IEA On Peak Oil
ASPO Newsletter – March 2008
Asia boom means oil will continue to rise
Review of Kunstler’s new novel
Scraping the barrel (anti-PO)
Life after the oil crash (Canada peakists)
Peak oil – true or false (abiotic oil)
The Case for a Sustainability Emergency, Part II
Second of two interviews with Philip Sutton, coauthor of a recent report titled Climate Cod Red: The Case for a Sustainability Emergency. He discusses how, with a shared sense of purpose and heroic leadership, humans have the technical and social capacity to go into “emergency” mode and design an economic and environmental turn-around in 10-20 years.
The next agriculture
Recent debates around the future of agriculture on the far side of Hubbert’s peak, wrestling with questions of the reversibility of the rise of industrial agriculture, have missed two crucial points. First, systemic change in complex systems rarely follows linear patterns; second, economic trends already in place may well favor the emergence of a viable postpetroleum agriculture.
Post carbon living: beyond technofix
There is an overwhelming need for non-technological responses to our global environmental crisis.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 2
Clothing (partially) made in Vermont
Megan Quinn Bachman interview
WorldChanging: How are you preparing to survive?
Beyond hope and doom: Time for a peak oil pep talk
A pep talk might take the tack of saying if only we pull together, our problems will vanish and the world will be a marvelous place in short order. But the people to whom I’m directing my remarks won’t buy that line of persuasion for a second.
Deep thought – Mar 1
Bates and Orlov interview
Lovelock: ‘Enjoy life while you can’
An alternative to hierarchy: rhizome theory
Upsides of being down (depression)
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 27
‘Eco-awakening’ affects lifestyle choices
Relocalization Network newsletter
Peak Moment TV newsletter
Peak energy tour coming to UK in 2008
In the dark with both hands
Fertilizer shortages caused by the depletion of nonrenewable feedstocks are a significant worry in the wake of peak oil. There’s a simple solution — but most people in the industrial world don’t seem to be able to tell it from a hole in the ground.
