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Index
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Energy Availability
On the Cusp of Collapse: Complexity, Energy and the Globalized Economy
Future Energy Availability: The Importance of “Net Energy”
Calculating EIRR, the Energy Internal Rate of Return
Energy and Water: The Real Blue-Chips
Part II: Innovation in Business, Money and Finance
The Supply of Money in an Energy-Scarce World
Liquidity Networks: Local Trading Systems Using a Debt-Free Electronic Currency System
Equity Partnerships: A Better, Fairer Approach to Developing Land
Using Equity Partnerships to Rescue Building Projects Hit by the Downturn
Trying to Form an Equity Partnership to Buy a Welsh Farm
The Mondragon Bank: An Old Model for a New Type of Finance
Rethinking Business Structures: How to Encourage Sustainability Through Conscious Design Choices
Why Pittsburgh Real Estate Never Crashes: The Progressive Reform that Stabilized an Economy
Definancialization, Deglobalization and Relocalization
Part III: New Ways of Using the Land
Cutting Transport Costs and Emissions Through Local Integration
The Nutritional Resilience Approach to Food Security
Turning the Land from an Emissions Source to a Carbon Sink
Part IV: Dealing with Climate Change
Future Global Climate Institutions
Cap and Share: Simple is Beautiful
Influencing High-Level Strategic Decision Making Toward a Sustainable Low-Carbon Economy
Part V: Changing the Way we Live
Danger Ahead: Prioritizing Risk Avoidance in Political and Economic Decision-Making
Transition Thinking: The Good Life 2.0
Sailing Craft for a Post-Collapse World
Part VI: Changing the Way We Think
The Psychological Roots of Resource Overconsumption
Busy Doing Nothing: Seven Reasons for Humanity’s Inertia in the Face of Critical Threats and How We
Cultivating Hope and Managing Despair
Collapse or No Collapse: We Need to Respect to Survive
Enough: A Worldview for Positive Futures
Part VII: Ideas for Action
Escape Routes: Fleeing Vesuvius – Which Way Should We Go?
Should the United States Try to Avoid a Financial Meltdown?
Epilogue: Fleeing Vesuvius
Contributors
PART I
Calculating the Energy Internal Rate of Return
PART II
Liquidity Networks: Local Trading Systems Using a Debt-Free Electronic Currency
Why Pittsburgh Real Estate Never Crashes: The Tax Reform that Stabilized a City’s Economy
PART III
Proximity 2.0: Cutting Transport Costs and Emissions Through Local Integration
PART IV
PART V
PART VI
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