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
Life Rules
Nature's Blueprint for Surviving Economic and Environmental Collapse
Corporate capitalism has ravaged the planet the way HIV ravages the human body, triggering a Critical Mass of cascading environmental, economic, social and political crises. Economic and climate instability, collapsing ecosystems, peak fossil fuels …
related subjects: Sustainable Living
The Permaculture Handbook
Garden Farming for Town and Country
The urban landscape has swallowed vast swaths of prime farmland across North America. Imagine how much more self-reliant our communities would be if 30 million acres of lawns were made productive again. Permaculture is a practical way to apply …
related subjects: Food and Gardening
The Resilience Imperative
Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy
We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (Social, …
related subjects: Environment & Economy
Share or Die
Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis
America stands at a precipice; limitless consumption, reckless economics, and disregard for the environment have put the country on a collision course with disaster. It's up to a younger generation to rebuild according to new forms of organization, …
related subjects: Sustainable Living
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 …
related subjects: 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
Thriving Beyond Sustainability
Pathways to a Resilient Society
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
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