Follow nature and avoid collapse

Competition may seem like one of history’s motivators to greatness, but a new book argues that competition is natural for neither humans nor other life forms.

Eating for the Cure

Type two diabetes, chronic fatigue, lupus and arthritis continue to spread despite new drugs and treatments. A new book says that the modern diet may be at fault.

Burn your cash before it burns you

Mark Boyle, known as “the Moneyless Man,” lived without cash for three years. His latest book tries to convince the rest of us that doing the same isn’t that hard.

As farms go, so go the cities

Wendell Berry brings his Jeffersonian agrarian critique of industrial America straight into downtown in ‘What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth.’

Occupying science: technology for the 99 percent

Techno-Fix

‘Techno-Fix’ shows how modern society’s belief in the beneficial power of technology is not only misplaced but that it is also as magical as any religion.

A course to keep you from crashing

The Crash Course

More than a million people have watched Chris Martenson’s video series ‘The Crash Course’ to prepare for financial collapse. The new book version is even better.

How Saudi oil could start World War III

Lethal Trajectories

‘Lethal Trajectories’ offers the perfect geopolitical storm for the age of peak oil: threat of war with China, a Saudi coup and economic collapse at home.

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Transition Companion

Rob Hopkins’s ‘Transition Companion’, despite UK-specific details limiting its appeal, still offers plenty for Americans who would re-localize their town’s economy.

Collapse could happen, literally, overnight

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In the granddaddy of all collapse books, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon gave ancient Rome a full 500 years to deflate. Half a millennium for any society to collapse always seemed a bit too generous to me. Heck, American civilization has only been around for about 300