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The KunstlerCast
Conversations with James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler has been described as “one of the most outrageous commentators on the American built environment”. An outspoken critic of suburban sprawl, Kunstler is often controversial and always provocative. The KunstlerCast is based on …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
The End of Growth
Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental …
related subjects: Environment & Economy , Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
Reinventing Collapse
The Soviet Experience and American Prospects – Revised & Updated
The United States is in steep decline. Plagued by runaway debt, a shrinking economy and environmental catastrophes to rival Chernobyl, the US has been retracing the trajectory of the Soviet Union in the early 1980's toward national bankruptcy and …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs
The Thrivalist's Guide to Life Without Oil
In the latter half of the twentieth century, the percentage of the total American population living in suburbs grew to nearly 50 percent. Fossil fuels were cheap and plentiful, and car-dependent, energy-intensive lifestyles came hand-in-hand with …
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Fleeing Vesuvius
Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse
The financial crisis that has blighted the world's richest countries since 2008 was a turning point in human history because it ushered in an era in which economies will tend to shrink rather than grow. Incomes will decline becausethe natural …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
The Biochar Solution
Carbon Farming and Climate Change
Conventional agriculture destroys our soils, pollutes our water and is a major contributor to climate change. What if our agricultural practices could stabilize, or even reverse these trends?
The Biochar Solution explores the dual function of biochar …
related subjects: Food and Gardening , Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
Peak Everything
Waking Up to the Century of Declines
The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, human impacts on the environment increased dramatically.
The 21st century ushered in an era of declines, …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
Transport Revolutions
Moving People and Freight without Oil
Modern societies now rely almost entirely on oil for moving people and freight. The impacts on transport of scarcer and more expensive oil pose major challenges to humanity. They require revolutions in our thinking about mobility, and consequent …
related subjects: Environment & Economy , Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
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