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I live in Minneapolis, MN, USA, myself.

I will be interested to see if this is more MSM "disinfotainment" or a real news story.

Shelby's colleague Paul Douglas has done terrific work here to get ...

Revi, I think you are right from a practical standpoint.

This is the beginning of the destruction of the American dream. Was it George Carlin who said:

"They call it the American Dream because ...

I agree that we've already hit peak oil or will do so soon.

But is there anything you all could do to give a couple of more years to convince some of my loved ones, and then to prepare more fully? ...

You're doing better than most. Most will look at the future as either raining stockbrokers or hanging the lawyers (swinging THEM from the vines).

Yup. I figure that none of us will be invulnerable ...

I think that this sums up the situation exactly. Money will be worth less and less. Barter will make more sense as time goes by, or more local currency. Basing exchange on some sort of unit of e ...

I work as a "sustainable household helper." I am self employed. I am the sole proprietor of my business.

I ride cargo trikes and pedicabs to get around.

I've tried to learn to do as many thing ...

RE: the notion of "teaser" and the "book/media reviews" section.

I am stunned that some are suprised to find that a "teaser" is linked to a site with a paywall.

I would be more suprised to be li ...

I think that the question posed is a good one.

I chose some years ago to try to begin to live in ways that really made sense to me, rather than just accepting the conventions we are handed in my pa ...

I hope the conversation does not get sidetracked.

Maybe a separate thread could be established to work through ideas about posting material from sites with articles behind a paywall. Sometimes i ...

Time for an amusing song or two on this thread!

Altogether now!

(To the tune of "There's no business like show business")

"Oh, there's no welfare like corporate welfare, there's no welfare I ...

Thanks for posting the BBC article by Peter Day. I think it makes a number of good points very well.

The most significant point it makes, I think, is summed up by Lester Brown at the end:

"The ...

Three things will shape our lives almost exclusively over the next twenty or thirty years.

Resource depletion, resource war, and global climate change.

The USA consistently exacerbates global cl ...

Spending the $440 billion on renewable energy infrastructure rather than stirring up the hornet's nest of "endless war" seems like such a "no brainer" to me.

We could provide decent paying jobs in ...

I get the impression that there is a consensus amoung posters that there has been a housing bubble and that it is deflating. The questions are:

1. How fast will the bubble deflate?

2. How much ...

This sounds to me like other countries are already getting tired of supporting our huge debt.

This could be a simple financial calculation -- as in "those Americans owe too much, we'd better not lo ...