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People Left Cities for Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk?

People Left Cities for Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk? As the pandemic waxes and wanes and we look back on the last 18 months, it’s clear that different types of workers experienced differential economic impacts. On one hand, there are workers who need to be in a location to do their […]

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Another Nail In The Coffin Of Big Cities

Another Nail In The Coffin Of Big Cities The riots, political turmoil, and other banana republic embarrassments seem to be ending – for now. So let’s get back to examining the real problems of this hyper-leveraged, dangerously-complex world. Like how big cities might soon be obsolete: Pretend it’s 2019 and you’re living in a major […]

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Fact: Your Chances of Surviving a Post-Collapse Urban Environment are Slim

Fact: Your Chances of Surviving a Post-Collapse Urban Environment are Slim ReadyNutrition Readers, Simply put, urban survival will be quite a bit different from survival in a remote wilderness area or even a sparsely-populated suburban area.  Let’s game some options, remembering that these options are general.  These actions aren’t specific to the type of breakdown […]

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The Permaculture City: Cities as Complex Systems

The Permaculture City: Cities as Complex Systems The following sections are excerpted with permission from Chapter 1 of Toby Hemenway’s new book The Permaculture City, published by Chelsea Green. When a permaculturist sees words such as “function” and “synergy,” it sets off lightbulbs in his or her head. Function, for example, indicates a relationship, a connection […]

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How Sustainable Can Cities be When TheyCan’t Even Deal With Their Own Shit?

How Sustainable Can Cities be When TheyCan’t Even Deal With Their Own Shit? A sewage treatment plant in Hamburg, Germany: The shit never looked so pretty (photo by Mark Michaelis) The Dr. Pooper Papers, Issue #3: Just this past week the City of Toronto wasinformed by the Ministry of the Environment that it must now notify the […]

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