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Temporary Recession or the End of Growth?

Richard Heinberg    Aug 11, 2010   14 comments

This is an updated version of an article which was originally published in August 2009.   Everyone agrees: our economy is sick. The inescapable symptoms include declines in consumer … >>

YOU Can be a BILLIONAIRE!!! Without Doing Anything

Richard Heinberg    Jul 26, 2010   17 comments

This is the Introduction to an inspirational / financial-advice / environmental / diet / dating / self-help / survivalist / humor book that I started to write--and quickly decided should never be finished. ... >>

Life After Growth

Richard Heinberg    Mar 03, 2010   24 comments

What if the economy doesn't recover? In 2008 the U.S. economy tripped down a steep, rocky slope. Employment levels plummeted; so did purchases of autos and other consumer goods. Property values … >>

The Peak Oil Crisis: A Meeting in California

Tom Whipple    Jan 29, 2010   12 comments

Last weekend, one of the more out of the ordinary meetings in recent memory took place out in Berkeley where some 30 people gathered to begin planning for the world's transition from the … >>

Plan for Lower Consumption - Or Blunder Through Disasters

William Rees    Oct 30, 2009   

Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees recently deliver the keynote address at the Resilient Cities Conference in Vancouver. This esisode of Radio Ecoshcok features Bill's full speech. It is followed by a … >>