Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Much of what we are seeing now may be a symptom of peak capital approaching: airports, roads, bridges, dikes, dams, and about everything that goes under the name of “infrastructure” are decaying everywhere in the world. The whole economic system is becoming unable to maintain the level of complexity it had reached just a few decades ago.
The context of ‘low product”: how designers can help articulate a new social language
The Oil Drum BookCollage – #1 of 3 (Energy, Ecology, Sustainability, Etc.)
‘Earth 2100’: the Final Century of Civilization?
Borderline bankruptcy: A Bioregional alternative?
Interview with investigative journalist and author Michael C. Ruppert about his new book A Presidential Energy Policy.
Peak Oil or Climate Change: Which Is Most Urgent?
On American Sustainability – Anatomy of Societal Collapse
Global Citizenship- Opportunities for Change
Letter from Sweden: The State of the End of the World
Using Thermodynamics to (Re)Examine Environmental Kuznets Curves
Why I Fired My Broker
The Century of The Rights of Mother Earth
In the 1970s a rising world population and the finite resources available to support it were hot topics. Interest faded — but it’s time to take another look
The failures of understanding that so often stymie communication in discussions of the future of industrial society unfold from the most basic models we use to make sense of our experience. Maybe it’s time to address those models and their implications directly, instead of assuming — incorrectly — that those who talk about the future are all talking about the same thing.
Whatever methods of restraint we eventually enact – and I think we will enact them, so let them be good ones, that lead to a justice and honorable society – we must begin from this – every child that we have, every birth is a gift, and if our gifts are fewer than in past years, we must only treasure them the more.
The end is near! (Yay!) (NY TImes on the Transition Movement)
Why we forgot how to grow food (UK Times)
Homer-Dixon: A doomsayer, and a father, with a heart of faint hope
Are there demand limits to growth?
Why isn’t the brain green?
Sunday Times: Review of Holmgren’s Future Scenarios
Peggy Noonan: Goodbye bland affluence
Carolyn Baker: Economic recovery? No thank you
Drastic Energy contraction ahead
New book from Michael Ruppert: A Presidential Energy Policy
Charles Hall in American Scientist: Revisiting the Limits to Growth after peak oil
Matt Simmons video
The “peak oil disruptor” – 4 rules to address the “global energy transition”
North Sea protection: U.K. oil industry seeks aid
Archbishop makes credit crunch case for monastic lifestyle in Easter sermon
UK goes into ecological debt on Easter Sunday
Weak pound heaps food price inflation on poorest households
Mayor unveils plan to turn London into ‘electric car capital of Europe’
