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FOOD: Growing Community Food Systems By Erika Allen • August 17, 2010 Food systems can be a very powerful for resilience. In a revolutionary way, you can completely trasform things without people realizing what's happening. It's also not about just going out and fighting the proverbial "man." Read more |
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POPULATION: The Multiplier of Everything Else By William Ryerson • August 17, 2010 One thing is certain: The planet and its resources are finite, and it cannot support an infinite population of humans or any other species. A second thing is also certain: The issue of population is too important to avoid just because it is controversial. Read more |
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ENERGY: Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy By David Fridley • August 10, 2010 Alternative energy faces the challenge of how to supplant a fossil-fuel-based supply chain with one driven by alternative energy forms themselves in order to break their reliance on a fossil-fuel foundation. Read more |
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FOUNDATION CONCEPTS: Beyond the Limits to Growth By Richard Heinberg • July 27, 2010 At some point in time, humanity's ever-increasing resource consumption will meet the very real limits of a planet with finite natural resources. We, the authors of The Post Carbon Reader, believe that time has come. Read more |
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CITIES: Smart Decline By Frank and Deborah Popper • July 19, 2010 In 2002, after decades of trying to restart economic development like most other Rust Belt cities, Youngstown made a radical change in approach. The city began devising a transformative plan to encourage some neighborhoods to keep emptying and their vegetation to return. The plan, still early in its implementation as we write would raze...Read more |
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RESILIENCE: Personal Preparation By Chris Martenson • July 6, 2010 My "standard of living" is a fraction of what it formerly was, but my quality of life has never been higher. We live in a house less than half the size of our former house, my beloved boat is gone, and we have a garden and chickens in the backyard... Read more |
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CITIES: The Death of Sprawl By Warren Karlenzig • June 23, 2010 In April 2009—just when people thought things couldn’t get worse in San Bernardino County, California—bulldozers demolished four perfectly good new houses and a dozen others still under construction in Victorville, 100 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles... Read more |
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WATER: Adapting to a New Normal By Sandra Postel • June 22, 2010 Water, like energy, is essential to virtually every human endeavor. It is needed to grow food and fiber, to make clothes and computers, and, of course, to drink. The growing number of water shortages around the world and the possibility of these shortages leading to economic disruption, food crises, social tensions, and even war suggest that the challenges posed by water in the coming decades will rival those posed by declining oil supplies... Read more |
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