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Sustainability? No, resilience.

By Erik Curren | April 1, 2011

Daniel Lerch and Janaia Donaldson

Haven't gotten the Post-Carbon Reader yet? C'mon, you know you'll have to pick it up sooner or later. Where else are you going to find a discussion of almost every area of modern life, from healthcare to community colleges to the county dump, all from the standpoint of peak oil and climate change? And don't forget that it's jam packed with essays by the top writers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: futurism, Peak Moment TV, Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg

Peak oil angst and the lure of techno-utopia

By Erik Curren | March 30, 2011

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward poster

In the sixties and seventies, Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes were a trendy symbol of a better society -- hipper, physically and culturally transparent and much, much more logical than the hodgepodge of architecture styles handed down to us by history. In America, where youth were aflame over Vietnam, the civil rights movement and the sexual revolution, the dome stood for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Films Tagged With: Colin Campbell, futurism, Michael Ruppert, peak oil

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