This is our live blog from the third day of the ASPO-USA Truth in Energy Conference. Coverage sponsored by Transition US.
Special call with Chris Martenson, Tues. 10/25
October 24, 2011 By
Chris Martenson is known around the Transition world for offering The Crash Course, an online series of video presentations that more than a million people have viewed to help them prepare for an economy beyond peak oil, peak debt and peak environment. After the slump of 2002, Martenson began digging around to see why his [...]
Who’s storing food now?
September 16, 2011 By
After the deadly super-flu epidemic in the film Contagion has emptied city streets and looters have cleared store shelves, Matt Damon’s character finds himself shivering in a food line when a soldier announces through a bullhorn that he’s sorry, but the supply of MREs has just run out. In response, the assembled hungry crowd breaks into [...]
Five bummer problems that make societies collapse
August 18, 2011 By
“If anyone tells you that there’s a single-factor explanation for societal collapse,” says collapse guru Jared Diamond, “you know right away that they’re an idiot. This is a complex subject.” So, forget about peak debt, peak oil, peak climate, peak Harry Potter or even peak everything as the single most important problem that could bring [...]
Loaves and fishes, Transition and survivalism
August 5, 2011 By
As stock markets around the world gyrate and froth at the mouth, the ranks are sure to grow of concerned citizens who aren’t waiting around for the government or the rich to fix things, but have instead taken matters into their own hands. Pessimists who foresee a quick and nasty collapse of society coming soon [...]
Voluntary poverty — it could save your life, but what a hard sell
July 8, 2011 By
Poverty is finding middle class families these days these days through unemployment, bankruptcy and home foreclosure, whether they like it or not. And mostly, they don’t like it. But John Michael Greer, author of this year’s The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered and several previous books on surviving peak oil, suggests that [...]
When disaster strikes: looting or love?
June 28, 2011 By
“A powerful riposte to those who argue that in difficult times people become more selfish and turn on each other. Beautiful,” says Rob Hopkins about a video from a New Zealand town recently leveled by an earthquake with a plucky community spirit. It makes dramatic TV to see angry mobs brandishing Glocks, busting store windows [...]
Will the Transition movement be the Tea Party’s next target?
June 7, 2011 By
Could Rob Hopkins become the US right wing’s next Van Jones? Could the Post Carbon Institute become the next ACORN? Thanks to Rob Hopkins for sending around a silly Tea Party video attacking the Transition movement. It features Rob himself along with PCI as part of a United Nations plot to “take away your land.” [...]
Depending on the kindness of strangers
June 6, 2011 By
“Most of what you have been and are being told about economics is simply wrong,” says Dmitry Orlov. “It is ideology and fake religion, not science.” In “The Twilight of the Antipodes and the Cultural Flip,” a presentation he gave recently at a conference in northern California, Orlov offers a disturbingly rational picture about what’s [...]
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