<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/bigbrain-150x150.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>People can be individually smart and collectively dumb. Or some may argue that people can be individually dumb yet collectively smart.

<p>If a society does not have some vision of where it wants to be or what it wants to become, it cannot know whether it is heading in the right direction – it cannot even know whether it is lost. This is the confused position of consumer capitalism today, which has a fetish for economic growth but no answer to the question of what that growth is supposed to be <i>for</i>.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/4533208885_576bddf4ac.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>We all know that walking is good for us. It sheds calories, tones muscles, and clears our minds.

<p>-Narcissism, Consumerism and the End of Growth<br />
-Spain's next threat: Losing 20% of its economy<br />
-How Transition is starting to rebuild Ontario<br />
-Amid the Echoes of an Economic Crash, the Sounds of Greek Society Being Torn</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-26/economics-oct-26">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/thermodynamics-cat.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>Enjoy this satirical look at the politics of energy by PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg...At a hastily organized news conference, president Obama this morning called for a new nati

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/EarthLines issue 2 front cover.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="71" height="100" /></span>I am in the woods outside Norwich on a January day with a gang of kids from Catton Grove, a huge primary school in a rough-and-tumble part of the city.

<p>This fourth part of a five-part series uses the tools of narrative fiction to explore some of the ways in which America's global empire might come apart.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/May Boeve-Photo.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="67" height="100" /></span>May Boeve calls herself a commoner because she wants "to be part of a movement that’s trying to create something different than what we stand to inherit right now."</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/frometsycom-900x300.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="33" /></span>Ever since we first got together my husband and I have talked about how to respond to one of our key shared interests — peak oil.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/man-bite-dog.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="91" height="100" /></span>This post is about the hopeful idea that technology is going to save us from having to adapt to descent.

<p>I was recently in Chicago, America’s great mid western city, doing a Train the Trainers for US folks, and had the opportunity of talking with Karen Snyder of Transition Chicago, and the Institute for Cultural Affairs (ICA).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-19/transition-chicago-and-accelerate-77-working-chicago%E2%80%99s-communities">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/transition2_logo.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="33" /></span>Like Heineken you might hope that the Transition Network refreshes the parts others cannot reach.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/letterpress-550x410.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>President Obama aroused the GOP's ire for reminding business owners of the obvious point that their success relies in part on roads and bridges built at public expense.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/LaurentChehere.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="98" /></span>Kropotkin worked within the framework of 19th century natural science, but his results are just as relevant today as they were then.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/plante-leah.n.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>-Keystone XL: Texas Farmer Battles TransCanada’s “Tainted Money”<br>-Nonviolent Protester of Drone Wars Sentenced to Federal Prison