Low-tech for your resilience toolbox
The fireless cooker helped stretch energy in kitchens a century ago. Could it return to help us save energy in the future? In a world where iPhones, iPods and iPads are everywhere and where dinner...
View ArticleMichael Ruppert, extended interview
Mike Ruppert and friend. Editor’s Note: The following is my extended interview with Michael Ruppert which took place for about 2 hours in late December via Skype. The text below is almost entirely...
View ArticleVoluntary poverty — it could save your life, but what a hard sell
Simple living can be comfortable, but are we ready to voluntarily seek out poverty just to survive after peak oil? Poverty is finding middle class families these days these days through unemployment,...
View ArticleAdam Smith got it way, way wrong!
We do labor and we amass capital. But are we all really just miners of the wealth of the earth? I love the way John Michael Greer’s latest book, The Wealth of Nature, opens, with a good skewering of...
View ArticleYoung farmers: Anybody want to be a serf?
More and more of today's unemployed college grads would like to become farmers. But if they can't get their own land, could they wind up at the bottom of a new family feudalism? Photo: Teddy Ruxpin2....
View ArticleTransition plans and meetings a waste of time, says Greer
Transition groups do little more than hold meetings, says John Michael Greer. After he spoke on the panel about local solutions at the ASPO-USA Truth in Energy Conference held in Washington, DC earlier...
View ArticleTransition groups getting things done
I’m glad that John Michael Greer’s frank feedback on the Transition movement has generated a healthy discussion among Transition Voice readers. While no one is a bigger supporter of Transition than we...
View ArticleTop 10 peak oil books of 2011
Lots of books came out on energy, climate and the economy this year. Here are the best ones that integrate all three areas. Welcome to our second annual list of the top ten peak oil books. Most of them...
View ArticleTwitter will set you free to Occupy
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul Mason, Verso, 237 pp., $19.95. I’m pretty conflicted about computers and the Internet these days. On the one hand, I run an internet magazine, build websites for...
View ArticleGive me that doom time religion
To deal with the scary bits of an economy facing collapse, a campground in the middle of the forest will put you in a different frame of mind than a hotel conference center. I don’t usually think of...
View ArticleStar spangled collapse
Photo: DVIDSHUB/Flickr. Apparently, people who write titles for politico-military thrillers about nuclear brinksmanship find the language of The Star Spangled Banner just too good to resist. It must be...
View ArticleA homegrown remedy to tame American empire
Over a single century fighting wars of conquest, the U.S. expanded from a republic of manageable size to a globe-spanning American empire. There’s lots of talk of localization or re-localization in the...
View ArticleVoluntary poverty — it could save your life, but what a hard sell
Simple living can be comfortable, but are we ready to voluntarily seek out poverty just to survive after peak oil? Poverty is finding middle class families these days these days through unemployment,...
View ArticleAdam Smith got it way, way wrong!
We do labor and we amass capital. But are we all really just miners of the wealth of the earth? I love the way John Michael Greer’s latest book, The Wealth of Nature, opens, with a good skewering of...
View ArticleYoung farmers: Anybody want to be a serf?
More and more of today's unemployed college grads would like to become farmers. But if they can't get their own land, could they wind up at the bottom of a new family feudalism? Photo: Teddy Ruxpin2....
View ArticleTransition plans and meetings a waste of time, says Greer
Transition groups do little more than hold meetings, says John Michael Greer. After he spoke on the panel about local solutions at the ASPO-USA Truth in Energy Conference held in Washington, DC earlier...
View ArticleTransition groups getting things done
I’m glad that John Michael Greer’s frank feedback on the Transition movement has generated a healthy discussion among Transition Voice readers. yourcialisrx.com/black_cialis.html...
View ArticleTop 10 peak oil books of 2011
Lots of books came out on energy, climate and the economy this year. Here are the best ones that integrate all three areas. Welcome to our second annual list of the top ten peak oil books. Most of them...
View ArticleTwitter will set you free to Occupy
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul Mason, Verso, 237 pp., $19.95. I’m pretty conflicted about computers and the Internet these days. On the one hand, I run an internet magazine, build websites for...
View ArticleGive me that doom time religion
To deal with the scary bits of an economy facing collapse, a campground in the middle of the forest will put you in a different frame of mind than a hotel conference center. I don’t usually think of...
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