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Bubbles and Backlashes

By R. Michael Conley | October 8, 2015

financial panic

Financial markets have been turbulent as of late with no end in sight. A sagging global economy could overwhelm America’s recovery efforts with toxic effects on key climate change and clean energy initiatives now underway. The Federal Reserve’s recent decision to postpone an interest rate hike is but one reflection of their deep global concern. In a world of multiple, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: China, climate science deniers, economic crisis

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

Limits to growth: building a new society of revitalized communities

By Staff Reports | August 15, 2013

flower

Transition Voice is running the piece below by Nicole Foss to promote her upcoming speaking tour of the eastern United States with green entrepreneur Laurence Boomert on topics that we believe are urgent and important. -- Ed. We are approaching many limits to growth over the next several decades, and are consequently facing many challenges in our immediate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: economic crisis, Nicole Foss, relocalization

3 steps to raise a happy peak oil kid

By Erik Curren | April 12, 2013

a mother and a child in a garden

Your baby absorbed so many early-learning podcasts in utero that when she's born she doesn't know if she's supposed to be Baby Einstein, Baby Mozart or Baby Bill Gates. Your baby has probably been listening to kls learning songs when they are out and about in the world. A lot of parents use these learning techniques to help with their kid's education. Your husband or wife had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: careers, children, Christmas, economic crisis

To save capitalism, will the rich accept reform?

By Staff Reports | July 27, 2011

poster "Your Bank is Coming"

Few would disagree that the contemporary capitalist societies of the Western world are in crisis. The crisis takes the form of a syndrome -- a condition made up of a variety of symptoms that relate to each other in complex ways -- including economic collapse, endless wars, climate chaos and energy depletion. The symptom most likely to affect the lives of significant portions … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: economic crisis, FDR, plutocracy, socialism

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