Not many scientists take peak oil seriously—but they should, Holling said at the Resilience 2011 conference
The Checklist Manifesto, Writing, and Resilience
Creating checklists can help avoid catastrophic failures in flights and surgery, and might just help with writing and generally being more resilient
Peak oil and our finite world; or, in praise of waste
Shortages won’t bring on a “Mad Max” world, Krugman argues—and we have our wasteful ways to thank for that
“Mining” Groundwater in India Reaches New Lows
Small-scale rainwater harvesting and new crops could fill the gap
Skill up, party down
Transition Towns plan a gentle descent from oil dependence—and have a blast in the process
Resilience links: Waste water, water storage, and cooperatives
Water storage could help during droughts and floods, and ….
Read: “Resilience and the incredible power of slow change”
a blog post by marketing guru Seth Godin
“We should not be concerned about wealth; we are rich enough, but we should be very concerned about robustness.”
—Nicholas Nassim Taleb, author of “The Black Swan”
“The human body has built-in redundancies: two eyes, two kidneys, two lungs. It is good to incorporate that model into everything we create.”
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of “The Black Swan”
Post Carbon Reader – book chapters free online
From a new book on “managing the 21st century’s sustainability crises”, edited by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch
