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Consumer worldview not as entrenched as you think

By Sherry Ackerman | June 30, 2015

consumer worldview

A worldview is a basic way of interpreting things and events that pervades a culture so thoroughly that it becomes that culture's concept of reality — what is good, what is important, what is sacred, and what is real.  It is so invasive that it is invisible. It is simply assumed to be true apart from any inquiry into its validity. If a worldview maintains that the emperor is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Economy Tagged With: consumerism, Naomi Klein

Plenty of trouble: Feeding a climate changed world after peak oil

By Richard Reese | June 18, 2015

feeding the world

Nothing is more precious than balance, stability, and sustainability. Today, we’re hanging by our fingernails to a skyrocket of intense insane change, and it’s the only way of life we’ve ever known.  Joel Bourne has spent his life riding the rocket.  He grew up on a farm, and studied agronomy at college. But sharp changes were causing many farmers to go bankrupt and taking over … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: climate change, food, Green Revolution, hunger, overpopulation

Inspiration for the burned-out localizer

By Erik Curren | June 1, 2015

Richard Heinberg

While Marx predicted that socialism would follow capitalism, Richard Heinberg predicts the next thing will be localism. "All roads appear to lead eventually to localism; the questions are: how and when shall we arrive there, and in what condition? (And, how local?)," Heinberg writes in his latest book, Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. (We received a review copy of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: climate change, economic crisis, peak oil, relocalization, Richard Heinberg, secession

With ten billion coming, sustainable is not enough

By Richard Reese | March 30, 2015

crowd

Stephen Emmott is a chief techno-wizard at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. His brilliant young scientists are doing research in complex natural systems. Their objective is to invent miracles. They want to program ordinary cells to perform photosynthesis, so we can produce food from sunlight, without plows and seeds. Agriculture can't feed ten billion. The goal is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: climate change, Microsoft, overpopulation, peak oil, Stephen Emmott

Dollars are worthless without crude oil

By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen | March 9, 2015

Money as energy

In my previous post I drew some parallels between energy and money – and more specifically, energy and banking – and pointed out that when money is at stake, the presence of energy is likely lurking somewhere in the shadows. It was mostly hypotheses and observations I was throwing around about energy and banking, but when it comes to energy and money, one can hardly overstate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Economy, Energy Tagged With: Energy, fiat currency, money

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