Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Local government responses to peak oil
Studies: If it feels good to be good, it might be only natural
Vatican goes green with solar roofs
Chinese activist praises Oregon’s green ways
Economist Tom Greco on reinventing money
‘Deep Economy’: ideas for a better world
Manufactured landscapes
The great Victorian economist, Stanley Jevons, published an exhaustive study of the coal industry in 1865.
Interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon
The hard facts about parabolic spikes
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Because we’re worth it
Toxic Culture USA
John Michael Greer: Future fiction
Kunstler: We Want Solutions!
Oil Prices; Blowin in the Wind
Limits To Growth?
Oil more expensive than it appears
Building a strong local food system via the 100 mile diet challenge
Astyk: reduce energy consumption- eat seasonally
BC conference: Changing ecologies of food and agriculture
Germany: Biofuel boom jacks up price of beer
If, all of a sudden your work was to disappear from the planet – no one was doing it – how much would anyone really suffer?
Common chemicals pose danger for fetuses
Three Gorges Dam Causes Downstream Erosion
Mud volcano threatens endless ruin as magical solutions fail
how i became a peak oiler
To all the geeks, gamers, and non-attention payers
Denial
Awakening to the threat of excessive material consumption
The case for relocalization will be made in the context of responding sensibly to two problems facing societies right now: climate change and peak oil and gas. Relocalization advocates rebuilding more balanced local economies that emphasize securing basic needs.
Transition targets for the Dynamic City
Greg Pahl’s Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook
Seeing the future from high above Greenland
Shining a bright light on energy efficiency
Richard Douthwaite on complementary money systems
Julian Darley on economics, the money system and capitalism
No efficiency without controls
McKinsey report: Invest in existing technologies to lower energy demand growth
HopeDance special on “LOCAL”
Heinberg: Talking ourselves to extinction
New transcripts and translations on GPM
The most likely trajectory of industrial society is a process of uneven economic and technological decline, a “long descent” over several centuries leading into a deindustrial dark age and beyond. (first of a series)
