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FOOD: Growing Community Food Systems
Erika Allen Sep 1, 2010
EXCERPT: Food systems can be a very powerful tool for resilience. In a revolutionary way, you can completely trasform things without people realizing what's happening--they are aware, … >>
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Post Carbon Institute's definitive reports provide accessible expert analysis of complex and interconnected economic, energy and environmental issues humanity faces in the 21st century.
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POPULATION: The Multiplier of Everything Else
William Ryerson Aug 17, 2010 1 comments
EXCERPT: When it comes to controversial issues, population is in a class by itself. Advocates and activists working to reduce global population growth and size are attacked by the Left for … >>
ENERGY: Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy
David Fridley Aug 10, 2010 2 comments
EXCERPT: Unlike conventional fossil fuels, where nature provided energy over millions of years to convert biomass into energy-dense solids, liquids, and gases--requiring only extraction and … >>
FOUNDATION CONCEPTS: Beyond the Limits to Growth
Richard Heinberg Jul 28, 2010 13 comments
EXCERPT: The underlying premise of the classic book The Limits to Growth is irrefutable: At some point in time, humanity's ever-increasing resource consumption will meet the very real … >>
CITIES: Smart Decline
Deborah Popper and Frank Popper Jul 20, 2010
EXCERPT: 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 … >>
RESILIENCE: Personal Preparation
Chris Martenson Jul 6, 2010 3 comments
EXCERPT: 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 … >>
CITIES: The Death of Sprawl
Warren Karlenzig Jun 23, 2010
EXCERPT: 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 … >>
WATER: Adapting to a New Normal
Sandra Postel Jun 22, 2010
EXCERPT: 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 … >>
Searching for a Miracle
Richard Heinberg Nov 12, 2009 13 comments
Perhaps the most significant limit to future energy supplies is the “net energy” factor—the requirement that energy systems yield more energy than is invested in their … >>
The Food and Farming Transition: Toward a Post Carbon Food System
Richard Heinberg Michael Bomford Mar 30, 2009
How can we continue feeding humanity in a future of declining resources and environmental crisis? This report explores the growing vulnerabilities of the current food system, and the steps needed … >>
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