Category Archives: What to do

Skip the meat and wine, pass the root vegetables (all 7+ billion of you)

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

I don’t seriously think this is a solution, but if you’re in a climate where sweet potatoes can be grown, they’d be a valuable addition to your home garden. Will Oremus. 12 Jun 2012. I Think, Therefore I Yam When … Continue reading →

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Sharon Astyk on coping with collapse

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Summary of 19 Mar 2012 ASPO Peak Oil Review editorial “Collapse? Really?”: If a collapse of some sort does happen, what helps? Social support systems and safety nets strengthened Making medical care, food and shelter available small-scale agriculture in urban … Continue reading →

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2001 James A Baker III Institute & Council on Foreign Relations Action Plan

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Our government has known for a long time that an energy crisis was approaching. Action Plan 2001 Strategic Energy Policy Challenges for the 21st Century Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the James A. Baker III Institute for … Continue reading →

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Richard Heinberg

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

Heinberg, Kunstler, Foss, Orlov & Chomsky on A Public Affair I think the likelihood of a coherent national, government-led strategy to adapt to the end of cheap energy and to the end of easy credit and so on is just … Continue reading →

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Departments of Descent

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

RAYMOND DE YOUNG “As it becomes more acceptable to openly talk about the need to downshift our personal material expectations, a few geographic locations (e.g., Flint, Detroit) will come to realize this same need exists at the community level. In … Continue reading →

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Dennis Meadows “Learning to Live within Limits”

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Steven W. Running at the University of Montana wrote in the Sep 21, 2012 issue of Science: “Forty years ago, Meadows et al. published a landmark first analysis of global limits to human activity (Meadows). Based on a primitive computer … Continue reading →

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Birth Control won’t stop population growth

Posted on January 1, 2012 by

Russell Hopfenberg, at the Duke University School of Medicine, has written that global food supply is the variable which best accounts for human carrying capacity, and that human population will continue to grow as long as food supply increases. He … Continue reading →

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One Child Per Woman — or NONE

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

Many ecologists and scientists see one, or even no children at all, as the only option to avoid a die-off in the usual unpleasant ways — genocide, war, starvation, and disease. I’ve said one-child per woman for many years, but … Continue reading →

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