The Five Stages of Collapse - What are they and what can you do about them?
Dmitry Orlov's long awaited, The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit is now off press. Note the position of …
Keyword: resilience
Independence Days
A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage and Preservation
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
Integral City
Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive
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
The Integral Urban House: Self Reliant Living in the City
The Integral Urban House: Self Reliant Living in the City is a comprehensive guide to achieving a completely sustainable urban lifestyle by creating a mini-ecosystem where residents grow their own fruits and vegetables, raise chickens, rabbits, and …
related subjects: New Catalyst Books
The Long Descent
A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
Americans are expressing deep concern about US dependence on petroleum, rising energy prices and the threat of climate change. Unlike the energy crisis of the 1970s, however, there is a lurking fear that, now, the times are different and the crisis …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
Depletion & Abundance
Life on the New Home Front
Climate change, peak oil and economic instability aren't just future social problems -- they jeopardize our homes and families right now. Our once-abundant food supply is being threatened by toxic chemical agriculture, rising food prices and crop …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
The Ecology Of Hope
Communities Collaborate for Sustainability
The Ecology of Hope is a remarkably upbeat account of a number of communities where collaboration among different factions and interest groups has led to breakthrough consensus on plans for achieving sustainability. The authors reveal the hopeful …
related subjects: New Catalyst Books
Plan C
Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change
Concerns over climate change and energy depletion are increasing exponentially.
Mainstream solutions still assume a panacea that will cure our climate ills without requiring any serious modification to our way of life.
Plan C explores the risks …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil
Small is Possible
Life in a Local Economy
In an era when incomprehensibly complex issues like Peak Oil and Climate Change dominate headlines, practical solutions at a local level can seem somehow inadequate.
In response, Lyle Estill's Small is Possible introduces us to "hometown security," …
related subjects: Community Building
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