Keyword: resilience

Reinventing Collapse
The Soviet Experience and American Prospects – Revised & Updated
by Dmitry Orlov

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

Industrial Evolution
Local Solutions for a Low Carbon Future
by Lyle Estill

For many people, the word “industry” brings to mind images ofsprawling factories belching toxic emissions in a blighted natural landscape. “Industrial” has become synonymous with pollution, human rights abuse, and corporate greed. In …
related subjects: Environment & Economy

Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs
The Thrivalist's Guide to Life Without Oil
by Wendy Brown

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 …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil

Peak Everything
Waking Up to the Century of Declines
by Richard Heinberg
foreword by James Howard Kunstler

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

Thriving Beyond Sustainability
Pathways to a Resilient Society
by Andrés R. Edwards

Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into an already warming …
related subjects: Environment & Economy

Independence Days
A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage and Preservation
by Sharon Astyk

Hard times aren't just coming, they are here already. The recent economic collapse has seen millions of North Americans move from the middle class to being poor, and from poor to hungry. At the same time, the idea of eating locally is shifting from …
related subjects: Food and Gardening

The Ecotechnic Future
Envisioning a Post-Peak World
by John Michael Greer

In response to the coming impact of peak oil, John Michael Greer helps us envision the transition from an industrial society to a sustainable ecotechnic world - not returning to the past, but creating a society that supports relatively advanced …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil

Integral City
Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive
by Marilyn Hamilton

Cities function unintelligently when their parts are disconnected. The integral city meshes or multiplies city intelligences by integrating capacities, functions and locations into a whole system, like a human hive. Everything counts.
An integral …
related subjects: Urban Issues