Consumerism
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Loved to Death
By embracing their critics and colonising governments, corporations engineer a world of conformity and consumerism. How do you engineer a…
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Loss Adjustment
When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means? To understand what…
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Home-Scale Conversion of Plastics to Oil
by Lesley White A highly-promising development out of Japan: a corporation called Blest has developed a home-scale plastic to oil…
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10 Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society
The best way to feel hopeful for the future is to prepare for it. The best way to feel hopeful…
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Call for Water, Not Gas (Australia)
Coal Seam Gas (‘fracking’) in the Pillaga Forest, NSW, Australia It was revealed last week that groundwater has been poisoned…
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A “Special Period” in the Mid-Hudson Valley Feeds the New York Local Food Renaissance (USA)
Local squash, like the ones pictured here, are frozen and consumed through the winter by Farm to Table Co-Packers. The…
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Detox: How People Power is Cleaning Up Fashion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZucclsuKaU Around the world a growing movement of people are using their creativity, design skills and purchasing power to demand…
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Can the World Feed China?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Slim, healthy, happy bovines promote a ‘hip’ new McDonald’s meat based diet to…
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Holmgren’s ‘Crash on Demand’: Be Careful What You Wish For
Originally published on TransitionNetwork.org It is a rare occurence that I disagree with David Holmgren. One of my heroes, and…
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A Shorter Working Week is Possible
Click for full view Marcin Gerwin: It was predicted in the 1930 by the economist John Maynard Keynes that thanks…
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Recharting Collapseniks
Only a few are willing to risk arrest for the sake of an utopian outcome. Ted ‘The Unabomber’ Kaczynski obviously…
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Charting Collapseniks
Rather than spurning financial system terrorists, Holmgren urges activists to become “terra-ists”; to directly bring down the system by thousands…
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