by Graham at Zone 5 http://zone5.org/2008/08/10/book-review-climate-code-red-the-case-for-emergency-action/ Climate Code Red The Case for Emergency Action ...
by Comrade Simba http://www.comradesimba.com/blog/?p=87 It Can Be Done This is our fifth growing season out here. The first two years was mainly hacking out...
by John Michael Greer One of the lessons of history is that change, no matter how drastic it appears on the pages of history books, is rarely anything like so ...
by Dimitri Orlov This piece started out as a solicited submission to Harvard Business Review for their "List of Breakthrough Ideas." After careful review, it...
By Ian Angus August 24, 2008 -- Will shared resources always be misused and overused? Is community ownership of land, forests and fisheries a guaranteed road...
by John Michael Greer The mismatch between the narratives of sudden apocalypse that shape so much of today's debate about the future, on the one hand, and the ...
by Aaron at http://villageblog.wordpress.com/ You know I will probably never visit the LATOC discussion board when looking for advice on how to handle the...
by Michael Lewis Nov 11 2008 The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar's Poker, returns...
Via Chris at Club Orlov I have recently moved from Australia, where Peak Oil issues are just beginning to gain traction belatedly in the mainstream press, to...
by Chris Turner My wife and daughter and I decided to include in our itinerary a few days' stay at Crystal Waters, one of the oldest and most renowned ...
Lloyd Morecom lives in the Sth Gippsland town of Foster and writes a fine blog http://southgippslandfutures.blogspot.com/ this is one of his latest entries The...
Sorry Rob, You post some of the most interesting commentary on the web through Intentional Community Vic, but this one from this guy is a crock of you know...
That's an interesting reaction Andrew, is there any part in particular that "got your goat", or is it the tone in general? I don't think that he's selling any...
Thanks for drawing my attention to this article Rob. My reaction is the opposite to Andrew's. Its a well thought out article that covers a lot of ground. Lloyd...
Hi Rob, The article doesn't get my goat, if anything, it simply reinforces my belief that when it comes to the future and to what is unfolding, there is a...
I have a soft spot for Mirboo North as my sister lives in the centre of town and my mother is on the edge of it, they were all evacuated yesterday and the town...
That's a fair comment Andrew, I suppose it comes down to preparing for a crash or a contraction, and you're right that there are no guarantees or "hand...
Hmmm, Rob, Whether crash or contraction, there are no guarantees. Until we learn that important lesson, we cannot open ourselves up to 'what could be'. As Neil...
Making the Best of a Slow Apocalypse by Joe Bageant 30 January 2009 _<http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=303&Itemid=1_ ...
by Eleutheros of http://milesfrombabylon.blogspot.com/ This is from the comments of the previous post: Question: what advice could/would you give someone who...
Rob, Sensational post! It has taken a couple of days of pondering and the post, 'miles from Babylon' to bring about greater clarity over just why it was that...
G'day Andrew, I thought that post would strike a chord - and I must confess that I just blew a whole day reading every post on "How Many Miles From Babylon" -...
"I think you misjudge Lloyd as he was, in part, skewering the unreal expectations of the sea/tree changers that are flooding this area" Hmmm, no I don't Rob,...
I seem to be missing the (obvious to you) link here. Does membership of a chamber of commerce infer evil intentions, besides the usual pro-growth nonsense? ...
Hi Rob, Thank you for asking, most people don't. Why don't they ask? Perhaps the great philosopher Herman Hesse put it best: "He who travels far will often see...
I thank you for your reply and will ask no more - unless it's over a shared drink cheers rob ... thought was the truth. When he talks about it in the fields at...
A long essay from Reality Sandwich that is worth reposting in full - enjoy http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_and_crisis_civilization Suppose you give me a...
By John Médaille http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=3298 Science, Normative and Positive Some wag somewhere has remarked that economists suffer from...