May 30, 2011 | Options/ New Paradigm
Despite four decades of detailed warnings, industrial civilization has failed to turn aside from self-destructive policies of exponential growth and dependence on nonrenewable resources. At this point, stark limits of time and resources as well as a failure of political will make attempts to prevent the fall of industrial society an exercise in futility. Individuals, small groups, and communities can still prepare for the approaching crises by mastering low-tech survival skills now to lay foundations for a sustainable society in the future.
Dec 23, 2010 | Local Solutions
ORIGINAL ARTICLE By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 20, 2010; 11:16 PM As 2010 comes to a close, U.S. environmentalists are engaged in their most profound bout of soul-searching in more than a decade. Their top policy priority –...
Dec 4, 2010 | Options/ New Paradigm, Preparation, Transition
ORIGINAL ARTICLE The following is an excerpt from Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered by Woody Tasch (Chelsea Green, 2008). Tasch presents an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems, and...
Nov 30, 2010 | Preparation
Knowledge is something that no one can take from you. It’s the eternal wealth that will help you thrive in a Post-Collapse world. Mad Max: Village Roadshow Pictures Jeffrey Green Activist Post Some experts see the perfect storm emerging for a dramatic collapse...
Nov 29, 2010 | Transition
[Speaking Truth to Power mentioned on Huffington Post. Thank you Craig!–CB] ORIGINAL ARTICLE Can we get beyond denial about peak oil, climate change, and economic troubles as long as we don’t find forms of action open to us? The genius of the...
Nov 24, 2010 | Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Preparation, Tyranny
Reprinted from Burlington Free Press Here’s a question I hear asked more and more by friends and neighbors in the Green Mountains of Vermont: How might we in Vermont create a more sustainable world for ourselves, and for our children, and for our...