Now that’s a pompous title to a post. I doubt anyone can ever really claim to have found the one secret to happiness, however there was a nice article on happiness over at Mother Jones today. I particularly liked the “10 techniques to help you get happier”: Meet up with a friend that you haven’t seen [...]
Posts Tagged ‘economic crash’
21 Apr
Background to Peak Oil – Interview with Colin Campbell
There is a great interview with Colin Campbell over at The Oil Drum – running through all the Peak Oil basics. It covers tar sands, new discoveries, potential of polar oil fields, reserve growth, and all the rest. I particularly liked the concluding paragraphs: We enter a new world, as the principal energy that drove [...]
17 Feb
A dark post-economic-crash moment
Dmitry Orlov is at his cheery best again, writing an article called “Social Collapse Best Practices“. In it he describes the grim future awaiting America if Obama’s administration continmue to try and resuscitate Business as Usual. What should their realistic new objectives be? Well, here they are: food, shelter, transportation, and security. Their task is [...]
29 Dec
What is the Good Life?
In the middle of this dire economic crash, with peak-oil and climate change suggesting that the “best” is now behind us and that a long, slow (or short, quick) decline is what we face, a wonderful movement is being reborn. It shoots can be seen everywhere – in the flowering of Transition Towns across Britain, in [...]
13 Oct
Life in a post-economic-crash world
Charlie Brooker’s view of life in a post-crash world, from today’s Guardian: All of it was a dream. All that crap we bought, all the bottled water and Blu-Ray players and designer shoes and iPod Shuffles and patio heaters; all the jobs we had; all the catchphrases we memorised and the stupid things we thought. [...]
