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If you’re not doing politics, you’re not doing enough. Review: Slow Democracy
Your local city council doesn’t get as much attention as Congress, but it may be a better place to deal with climate change and peak oil. Photo: Will Merydith. “We live in an anti-political moment,”...
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The Capitalism Papers: Fatal flaws of an obsolete system
Photo by You as a Machine via Flickr. Self-interest lies at the root of capitalism. This self-interest is a thoroughly predictable, steadily consistent feature of the human landscape and can reasonably...
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Visual guide to the cost of growth. Review: ENERGY
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. With that in mind, the 195 color, mostly full page — often double page — photographs in the Post Carbon Institute’s* latest book, ENERGY: Overdevelopment...
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Burn your cash before it burns you
The Moneyless Manifesto by Mark Boyle, Permanent Publications, 320 pp, about $16. “Moneyless Man” Mark Boyle, living as he does in the UK, has an advantage over Yanks like me in that he can survive...
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Eating for the Cure
Autoimmune: The Cause and The Cure by Annesse Brockley and Kristin Urdiales, Nature Had it First LLC, 253pp, $27.95. You’ll need a pretty high tolerance for research studies and medical lingo to get...
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Follow nature and avoid collapse
Life Rules: Nature’s Blueprint for Surviving Economic and Environmental Collapse by Ellen LaConte, New Society Publishers, 366pp, $18.95. Neoclassical economists, business gurus, the Republican Party...
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Lessons for the Great Recession from throwaway books
This new trend of “eco swaps” sounds harmless enough — people exchanging stuff they don’t want for other people’s stuff they do want, with no money involved. Seems perfect for a down economy. But don’t...
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3 steps to raise a happy peak oil kid
Honeycomb Kids: Big Picture Parenting for a Changing World…and to Change the World by Anna M. Campbell, Cape Able, 254 pp, $17.95. Your baby absorbed so many early-learning podcasts in utero that when...
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Radical homemakers
A kitchen is one heart of a radical homemaker’s home. Photo: thekitchendesigner.org via Flickr. Confucius said that the health of a nation could be determined by the integrity of its homes. If we apply...
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Convinced that food can save America
Local yogurt: Good for you, good for the economy. Photo: Sterling College/Flickr. It’s hard to overestimate the importance of food. Yet, sometimes it appears just as hard for food writers to avoid...
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Post-peak fiction: First Journey
Photo: Vibrant Spirit/Flickr. We’re pleased to publish the first chapter of the latest installment of W.R. Flynn’s Shut Down series of novels, set in the Pacific Northwest after the collapse of the...
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The Age of Oil: Every man a master, every man a slave
The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude by Andrew Nikiforuk, Greystone Books, 282pp, hardcover, $29.95. “If we do commit a sin owning slaves,” said one Alabama slaveholder in 1835, “it is...
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Economics for a finite world
Advice for an economy addicted to growth but stalling out. Photo: Goodnight London/Flickr. “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple,” said Woodie Guthrie. Nowhere...
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Building a resilient homestead of your own
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: an Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach by Ben Falk, Chelsea Green, 320 pp, $40. “Imagine inheriting a food forest,” farmer and author Ben Falk...
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Our daily conveniences are somebody else’s suffering
Jain nuns in India reject electricity for ethical reasons. Photo by author. I grope my way up the stairs in near-complete darkness, unaccustomed to the uneven concrete floors and unexpected corners of...
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Farewell to empire
Some nice Yankees up in Vermont are ready to go all Stonewall Jackson on the United States. Peacefully, of course. Photo: ohiorepublic.blogspot.com. For one of America’s smallest states, Vermont has a...
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Can we really walk away from empire?
Photo: Erik Daniel Drost/Flickr. I recently had the opportunity to engage in conversation with Guy McPherson about a number of topics and subsequently began reading his book Walking Away From Empire,...
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Finding wild mind can keep us from losing our minds
Photo: “A tree around the corner” by DaveNeukirch/Flickr. We know it in our bones, as well as our brains – the enormity of the times we live in, the cultural and environmental challenges, the...
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Deserts, non-native species and the Second Genesis
Photo: “Una muerte anunciada” by Macnolete/Flickr. When Zen farmer Masanobu Fukuoka proposed that military bombers of his native Japan be used to drop balls made of seeds for hundreds of plant species...
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Hopium for the masses, renewable energy edition
The hydrogen economy always seems to be 20 years away. Photo: The Chosun Bimbo/Flickr. As Derrick Jensen points out, this “culture as a whole and most of its members are insane.” The Third Industrial...
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