Environment – July 15
Forests to fall for food and fuel (RRI report)
Buying your own wood
Bulgarian eco town ‘the biggest mistake of Norman Foster’s career’, say protesters
Overshoot
Could sustainability lead to an authoritarian future?
Those who imagine humans eventually returning to agrarian societies also often imagine that such societies have the potential to be much more democratic and egalitarian than our current world. But, among those who imagine what I’ll call a sustainable industrial future, there is little discussion of future political arrangements.
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
Review: Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil by Zachary Nowak
We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.
Book Review: “Reinventing Collapse”
Written with the satirical wit of modern Voltaire, Orlov goes where few other peak oil writers have dared to go, and his sardonic Russian humor allows a stark look at American prospects through the eyes of someone who has witnessed collapse first hand.
Crisis & collapse – June 27
Thomas Friedman and his book, Hot, Flat And Crowded
Kunstler on wishful thinking
Mike Davis: Welcome to the next epoch – humanity’s meltdown (“Anthropocene”)
Sixty days, next year (diary of the future)
The Olduvai theory and catastrophic consequences
In this paper we will consider the implications of the dwindling supply of oil in light of the Olduvai Theory.
Crisis & collapse – June 3
Gail Tverberg reviews Orlov’s Reinventing Collapse
Futurist Jeremy Rifkin’s bleak view of the future
8 things we are running out of and why
Carolyn Baker: Location, location, re-location
A doomer’s garden
Getting through a crash will take more than tomatoes and Mason jars.
Deep thought – May 25
Cars are driving us nuts (interview with traffic scientist Hermann Knoflacher)
Jan Lundberg: Fix the cities? Maybe not
Co-founder of sustainable design movement illuminates our uncertain futures
The Australian co-founder of the permaculture concept David Holmgren has today launched a new global scenario planning website, Future Scenarios. Holmgren says his future scenarios will help both policy makers and activists come to terms with the end of the era of growth. “The simultaneous onset of climate change and the peaking of global oil supply represent unprecedented challenges for human civilisation. Each limits the effective options for responses to the other,” writes Holmgren.
Remember Malthus? He’s back for good
His ideas have been the inspiration since 1798 for anyone concerned about over population and food scarcity. Relegated to history’s back shelf in the 1960s by agriculture’s Green Revolution, his forecasts are back, with a vengeance.
