By John Médaille http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=3298 Science, Normative and Positive Some wag somewhere has remarked that economists suffer from...
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...
"We can't grow our way out of this grain-shortage hole," said Jim Gerlach, president of A/C Trading Inc. in Fowler, Indiana. "We'll have to price our way out....
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...
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_ ...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 PS Pirro One of the best pieces of advice I ever read came from Kentucky farmer and author Wendell Berry, who wrote in numerous essays of the importance of...
by Clay Shirky (This is a lightly edited transcription of a speech I gave at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.) I was recently reminded of some reading I...
by Charles Hugh Smith http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjun08/survival6-08.html I'm not trying to be difficult, but I can't help cutting against the grain on...
by Alex Steffen http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html The other night Cory Doctorow and I were talking over coffee, and we got going on an idea...
From a new blog. 7 Fat and 7 Lean Years by Yeoman Gardener http://www.feastandfamine.blogspot.com/ There is no cheese, no butter, no dry milk powder, no grains...
Hi all, just a quick intoduction. My family are due to relocate from rural Bungendore to rural Victoria in October. We are looking at Heathcote at this point...
http://www.comradesimba.com/blog/?p=4 by Comrade Simba So if I'm standing and line at a bank or some store and I want to bitch about the price of a 50 pound...
by Kurt Cobb http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2008/06/tinkering-our-way-to-sustainability.html When we think about the scope of the ecological challenges...
http://theorstrahyun.blogspot.com/2008/06/ridiculously-satisfying-go-ahead-laugh.html Go ahead, laugh at those wonky carrots. Couldn't care less, they tasted...
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by Dimitri Orlov http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2008/04/keeping-fed.html The inability to feed their people stands as the Soviet Union's most striking failure....