The ongoing saga of proposed cuts to all Toronto services is clearly the start of the new era of industrial scarcity and decline. I had expected service reductions to be a little longer in coming, and during times of much greater hardship, rather than it being due to a particular ideological bent that would cut [...]

Resilience is the new “sustainability”. Once sustainability had been co-opted to mean keeping things the way they are, by sustaining our existing lifestyle, a new term was needed. Resilience has a number of meanings, but it is starting to mean the ability to weather our coming energy decline and inexorable decline of industrial civilization. Achieving [...]

David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept, and author of the deep ecology treatise “Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability” has examined the challenges of our times and created a web-based book at www.FutureScenarios.org where he describes in detail how society will react to the issues of climate change and peak energy. Holmgren begins with [...]