Agriculture: The Price of Transition (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Dec. 12, 2007 -- One of the great gifts of crisis is supposed to be the way it helps sort out the difference between what’s essential and what’s not. As we ...

LEAP/E2020 Alert: Breaking phase ahead for the global financial system in 2008

Public announcement GEAB N°20 Dec. 16, 2007 -- The rapid aggravation of the global systemic crisis as its phase of impact unfolds has brought our researchers to estimate that the contemporary global ...

Solvitur Ambulando (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Dec. 5, 2007 -- As last week’s post suggested, the crisis of industrial society may just be approaching a critical stage in the near future. This has had an ...

Lifeboat Time (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer -- Archdruid Report Nov. 29 -- One of the more notable news stories of the last week concerned the fate of M/S Explorer, a cruise ship built for polar seas that turned out to be no ...

Beware Our Shadow Banking System (Bill Gross)

We have a secret banking system built on derivatives and untouched by regulation, says Pimco's Bill Gross. Here's how to protect your pocketbook. By Bill Gross, founder and chief investment officer o ...

Adaptive Responses to Peak Oil (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Nov. 21, 2007 -- One of the occupational hazards of writing a blog on the future of industrial civilization, I’ve discovered, is the occasional incoming mis ...

Mushrooms and Mankind (James Arthur)

A Brief Introduction to Ethnomycology

A single scandalous fish in a river full of crimes (sofa king)

The transgressions of the Bush Administration run so thick and so deep that future historians will be able to look at no single act of this Presidency without considering that act part of an enormous ...

Bush's `Ownership Society' Founders as U.S. Economy Weakens (Brendan Murray)

President George W. Bush spent years promoting an ``ownership society,'' the idea that Americans should own everything from homes to the assets needed to pay for their own health care and retirement. ...

Warning: This mess will only get worse (Bill Fleckenstein)

The inevitable demise of the subprime mortgage market leaves the entire housing market -- and with it the economy -- on the verge of collapse.

Unstable, Unbalanced, Uncoordinated, and Unsustainable (Stephen S. Roach)

In uncharacteristically blunt language, China’s Premier, Wen Jiabao, used the occasion of his annual press conference following the conclusion of the National People’s Congress to send a very clear m ...