Interview with Ellen LaConte

SUBHEAD: Eco-economies are local and regional, place-based, functionally self-reliant, interdependent, mutually supportive, regenerative, restorative and resilient.By Robert Jensen on 8 March 2011 in Energy Bulletin - (http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-03-08/listening-life-it%E2%80%99s-too-late-interview-ellen-laconte)Image above: "Mother Earth" by Stephen Alcorn (2005). From (http:/

Two Roads Diverged in a Wood

SUBHEAD: Simultaneously industrial society has chosen the both the path of environmental collapse and economic collapse.By Guy McPherson on 3 February 2011 in Transition Voice -(http://transitionvoice.com/2011/02/two-roads-diverged)Image above: A fork in the road. From (http://www.midlifesatrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/fork-in-the-road-3.jpg).At this late juncture in the era of industry, it

Doom or Boom? Let’s do Both!

SUBHEAD: Call it a renaissance. Call it salvation. Call it the apocalypse (i.e., the unveiling).By Guy McPherson on 1 January 2011 in Transition Voice - (http://transitionvoice.com/2011/01/doom-or-boom-let%e2%80%99s-do-both)Image above: "Deer Hunter" painting. From (http://www.stillasleep.com/WALLPAPERS/CAT/Paintings/1/index.html).The twin sides of our fossil-fuel addiction — energy decline and