 | FOUNDATION CONCEPTS: Beyond the Limits to Growth By Richard Heinberg • July 27, 2010 The underlying premise of the book (The Post Carbon Reader) is irrefutable: At some point in time, humanity's ever-increasing resource consumption will meet the very real limits of a planet with finite natural resources. We believe that time has come. Read more | |
 | SMART DECLINE: The Buffalo Commons Meets Buffalo, New York By Frank and Deborah Popper • July 19, 2010 In 2002, after decades of trying to restart economic development like most other Rust Belt cities, Youngstown made a radical change in approach. The city began devising a transformative plan to encourage some neighborhoods to keep emptying and their vegetation to return. The plan, still early in its implementation as we write would raze...Read more | |
 | RESILIENCE: Personal Preparation By Chris Martenson • July 6, 2010 My "standard of living" is a fraction of what it formerly was, but my quality of life has never been higher. We live in a house less than half the size of our former house, my beloved boat is gone, and we have a garden and chickens in the backyard... Read more | |
| CITIES: The Death of Sprawl By Warren Karlenzig • June 23, 2010 In April 2009—just when people thought things couldn’t get worse in San Bernardino County, California—bulldozers demolished four perfectly good new houses and a dozen others still under construction in Victorville, 100 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles... Read more | |
 | WATER: Adapting to a New Normal By Sandra Postel • June 22, 2010 Water, like energy, is essential to virtually every human endeavor. It is needed to grow food and fiber, to make clothes and computers, and, of course, to drink. The growing number of water shortages around the world and the possibility of these shortages leading to economic disruption, food crises, social tensions, and even war suggest that the challenges posed by water in the coming decades will rival those posed by declining oil supplies... Read more | |
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Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability CrisesEdited by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch
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