I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on another 25 years. But lately I am o….

It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via ….

Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the….

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human ….

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important an….

Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to run WalMart, Disney….

The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of tod….

The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the landscape lead….

The Long Emergency will be chiefly characterized as a "time out" from technology. It could plunge us into a dark age of superstition. My guess is tha….

Building places that are worth living in and worth caring about require a certain attention to detail, and of a particular kind of detail that we hav….

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty..

Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence..

There is not going to be a "hydrogen economy," and no combination of alternative energy systems or fuels will allow us to continue the suburban patte….

I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed..

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us..

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials..

Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with real….

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live..