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Category Archives: book review
Peak Water
Peak Water Civilisation and the World’s Water Crisis Alexander Bell Luath Press 2009 Hardback 208 pp If oil supply peaks and begins to decline times will be hard. Standard of living will decline and people may go hungry but they … Continue reading
Posted in book review, climate change, collapse, Food, Human Ecology, Overshoot, Population, water
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The Heretic’s Guide to vegan Cookery
Book Review: The Heretic’s Guide to Vegan Cookery Warning! Not suitable for Breatharians Andy Murray The Good Elf Press 2009 187pp Astrology is an amazing tool to run your life by, without having to waste time with the fraudulent pseudo-scientific … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Food, Health, Science and Rationaltiy
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Reading the Great Book of Life
Book Review: The Living Landscape: How to Read and Understand it Patrick Whitefield Permanent Publications 2009 334pp 48 color photos When I first saw in the recent Permaculture Magazine that Patrick Whitefield had written a book on reading the landscape … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, book review, Environment, Human Ecology, Permaculture
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The Transition Timeline
Book Review: The Transition Timeline for a local, resilient future Shaun Chamberlin Forward by Rob Hopkins 190 pp pbk Chelsea Green 2009 The follow-up to Rob Hopkins’ seminal The Transition Handbook uses the method of “backcasting” from an envisioned future … Continue reading
Future Scenarios
Book Review- Future Scenarios How Communities Can adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change David Holmgren Chelsea Green 2009 When I first saw David Holmgren’s Future Scenarios talk and slide at a permaculture design course in Slovenia in 2005 I … Continue reading
Posted in book review, climate change, collapse, General, Human Ecology, Peak Oil, Permaculture, Powerdown
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Book Review: When Technology Fails
When Technology Fails- A Manual for Self- Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency Matthew Stein Chelsea Green 2000, 2008 494 pp Matthew Stein’s massive survival manual When Technology Fails packs into one volume everything you need to survive “The … Continue reading
Posted in book review, collapse, Food, Peak Oil, Permaculture, Science and Rationaltiy, survivalism
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Come with Me to Solla Sollew
I was delighted to read in Sharon Astyk’s Casaubon’s Book that last Tuesday was the 105th birthday of Dr. Seuss. Like thousands of others, my upbringing was influenced and enriched by the famous Cat in the Hat books- which Astyk’s … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Science and Rationaltiy
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Bad Science- and Good
Update: Jan 9th 2009 “Unprecedented” rise in Measles cases in England and Wales due to poor uptake of MMR: “ “We shouldn’t forget that the children who weren’t vaccinated many years ago are at real risk.” ” ‘Big pharma is … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Health, Science and Rationaltiy
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Book Review: The Long Descent
The Long Descent- A Users Guide to the End of the Industrial Age John Michael Greer New Society Publishers 2008 John Michael Greer has written a fascinating and engaging, but also contradictory and perplexing account of how he sees the … Continue reading
The Shock Doctrine: No Conspiracy Necessary
Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand world history of the last 50 years is Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine. Her extraordinary account begins with the exploits of one Dr. Ewan Cameron, president of the American and World Psychiatric … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Geo-politics
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