Dismantle Civilisation

culturechange.org article, written by Jan Lundberg.
The fastest way to put the brakes on global heating is to embrace the peaking of world oil extraction and the implications of petrocollapse. As long as we deny there’s a terminal outcome for our petroleum-based infrastructure — and therefore society as we know it — we will keep dancing … Read more »

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Don’t Believe Everything You’re Told, says Melinda at one green generation.
Ten Reasons To Grow A Four-Season Organic Garden

Growing your own food reduces the distance your food travels from the farm to you (10 feet, say, versus 250-2,500 miles). That means you’re eliminating the petroleum products used in farming equipment, fertilizers, pesticides, packaging, storage, and transportation.
By … Read more »

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The do it your self handbook is packed full of useful information, from how to run meetings, to haw to set up a community garden, to organising a health collective and much more.
Climate change, resource wars, privatisation, the growing gap between rich and poor, politicians that don’t listen…
Massive issues, but how can we make any … Read more »

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Meetings can be boring. Lets face it, we simply haven’t been taught how to co-operate, in fact we have been trained our whole lives how not to cooperate. Everything in mainstream schools prepares us for a life of conflict and competition. So, when we try to work together some of us, maybe unconsciously, maybe totally … Read more »

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More from Sharon Astyk.
Ok, I’m going to run through a range of security options, covering both personal and community, and talk a little about the pros and cons of each. I’ve divided them into four categories - personal, preventative (ie, avoiding security issues in the first place); community, preventative, personal, responsive (ie, when something … Read more »

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Heres something to think about, originally posted on Gristmill, by Stephanie Paige Ogburn.
Should small-scale farmers who grow organically and sell locally or regionally be able to make a middle-class living with farming as their sole source of income?
I’ve always answered this question with a fervent “yes,” at least from a philosophical perspective. But the … Read more »

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Having just spent a slow-paced week in the woods learning the basics of the art of bushcraft, the return to civilisation has been somewhat disorientating.  Many things bothered my mind on my return, from the urban noises to the claustrophobia of the buildings and the density of people.  But the main underlying cause of this … Read more »

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Reading throuth the Post Carbon Institute’s call to action for individuals, it feels like this really isnt enough. Ok, some people will start all of this, and some will be very effective at creating local food for their friends and families, connections with their neighbours, reduce their carbon footprints, and all the rest.
But, the transition … Read more »

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A call to action, by the Post Carbon Institute.
Marching into the new millennium, we as a species have reached a peak that is at once both breathtaking and terrifying. The last century saw an explosion of advances in technology, communication, industry, health, science, mobility, and knowledge. These advances—developed in large part as a result of … Read more »

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By Peter Goodchild on countercurrents.org
Yes, there are other factors beside oil to consider in the Great Crash. We live in a morass of bad politics, bad economics, and bad education (and bad news media that spoon-feed us with half-truths), and we elect thieves and liars to guide us. But the loss of oil, which is … Read more »

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