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How To Create A Root Cellar On Your Property
How To Create A Root Cellar On Your Property If you have a basement or even room under your house, you can create a root cellar to store food! The trick is going to be making it work with what you have, and all of us are in different situations when it comes to our […]
Rural gentrification Part II: Of localists and homesteaders
Rural gentrification Part II: Of localists and homesteaders In this post, I discuss some issues about gentrification, localism and homesteading or neo-agrarianism, following on from my last post and the wider debate I referred to there. Let’s begin with a word on gentrification, which is usually applied to urban situations where richer people avail themselves of cheaper […]
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth Only rarely does a book truly change the world. In the nineteenth century, such a book was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. For the twentieth century, it was The Limits to Growth. Not only did this best-selling 1972 publication help spur the environmental […]
Power: Introduction
Power: Introduction This is an excerpt from Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival (2021) by Richard Heinberg; posted with permission from New Society Publishers. Read more in this series. One might think that everything that could possibly be written on the subject of power already has been. There are thousands of tomes that discuss subjects related to power […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XL
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XL Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the […]
“Not Going To Happen To Me Again” – Prepping Goes Mainstream In Post-COVID Era
“Not Going To Happen To Me Again” – Prepping Goes Mainstream In Post-COVID Era Consumer psychology radically changed during the early days of the virus pandemic as shortages at supermarkets emerged. Bulk-buying habits were never a thing with the modern consumer in a pre-COVID world, but now ‘prepping’ has gone mainstream two years since the beginning of the […]
Thinking food: What’s ‘healthy’ and ‘sustainable’?
Thinking food: What’s ‘healthy’ and ‘sustainable’? What constitutes a ‘healthy diet’ has been endlessly debated and the advice on eating changes almost year on year. With the dangerous rise in non-communicable diseases (such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes) which has occurred over the last fifty or so years – significantly accelerating from the 1980s onwards with […]
The deep divide between the American people and mainstream politics and media
The deep divide between the American people and mainstream politics and media A dangerous gulf exists between Americans’ concerns about their lives, their country and their future, and the priorities, proclivities and pre-occupations of the country’s mainstream politics and media. Other liberal democracies should heed the lessons. In 2013 I collaborated in a survey that investigated the […]
Is there a long emergency plan for peak oil?
Is there a long emergency plan for peak oil? Ever since I first learned about peak oil in 2000, the Master Resource that makes all other resources and activities possible, I’ve wondered what The Plan to cope with its decline and eventual disappearance was. So it wouldn’t be just a long emergency plan, but a […]
Degrowth is the Future.
Degrowth is the Future. The question is not whether we will face degrowth, but what we choose to degrow. Photo by Thom Milkovic on Unsplash (I will keep this short by linking to previous articles.) Degrowth has the issue of being defined or rather framed by what it is against rather than what it is for. “Many of the objections to degrowth […]
Societal Collapse Due to Climate Change and Conflict
SOCIETAL COLLAPSE DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONFLICT An Existential Threat There is a good paper floating about the internet warning that society could collapse due to climate change-related disasters and conflict in the next 20 years or so. Not good. Furthermore, according to the authors, such a collapse has been deemed not just possible, […]
How Empires Die
How Empires Die When the state / empire loses the ability to recognize and solve core problems of security and fairness, it will be replaced by another arrangement that is more adaptable and adept at solving problems. From a systems perspective, nation-states and empires arise when they are superior solutions to security compared to whatever arrangement […]
Volcanoes and climate: How will the eruption in Tonga affect our gardens?
Volcanoes and climate: How will the eruption in Tonga affect our gardens? If you have watched the news at all in the last two weeks, you know that there was a huge underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean on January 15, 2022, that spewed ash and gases into the atmosphere. It blew with […]
Watching the End of the World
Watching the End of the World
