Resilience and Collapse: Notes from Cyprus

By Lakis Polycarpou, City of the Future

Whatever we do in Cyprus doesn’t really stay in Cyprus. It’s like the effect gets multiplied and spread, from here to the nearby regions, and from there on.

What Greece, Cyprus, and Puerto Rico Have in Common

By Gail Tverberg, Our Finite World

We all know one thing that Greece, Cyprus, and Puerto Rico have in common–severe financial problems. There is something else that they have in common–a high proportion of their energy use is from oil.