"Collapse now and avoid the rush." - John Michael Greer #collapse
We face multiple crises: mass extinction, climate change, peak oil, deforestation, desertification, and rising authoritarianism: technocracy, theocracy, ultra-nationalism, corporatism, transhumanism, and the LGBTQIA2S movement.
There are no simple solutions, but these are some suggested responses to the predicament we find ourselves in:
Shelter: natural building (cob, strawbale, earth, superadobe, cordwood, etc), tiny houses, yurts, treehouses, hobbit homes, Earthship Biotecture, wofati, underground home, green roofs, passive solar, earth tube cooling, rocket mass heaters, rain garden, rainwater catchment, greywater recycling, composting toilets, vanlife, backpacking, couchsurfing, workaway, WWOOF
Community: new urbanism, transition town, garden city, 15-minute city, transit-oriented development, carfree cities, intentional communities, cohousing, ecovillages, land trusts, landback, community gardens, community centers, libraries, civic groups
Food: (urban) homesteading, Food Not Lawns, community gardening, small farms, community supported agriculture (CSA), farmers' markets, 100 mile food, organic agriculture, regenerative agriculture, permaculture, companion planting, crop rotation, edible food forests, agroforestry, free range husbandry, aquaponics, beekeeping, grey water recycling, composting, composting toilet, vermiculture, hunting, foraging, freeganism, seed saving, heirloom varieties, food preservation, herbal medicine, WWOOF, slow food movement
Health: herbal medicine, holistic medicine, single-payer universal healthcare, comprehensive sex education, sex positivity, reproductive healthcare
Family: negative population growth, adoption, midwives and doulas, natural childbirth (Bradley Method), attachment parenting, free-range parenting
Education: democratic education, unschooling, Sudbury Valley School, Montessori, Waldorf, unschooling, open source education, anarchist infoshops, libraries, comprehensive sex education, sex positivity
Energy: peak oil, conservation, efficiency, off-the-grid, microgrid, energy cooperative, small-scale renewable energy, appropriate technology, low tech, degrowth, de-industrialization, selective logging
Transportation: walking, bicycling (not ebikes), free public transit, rail, sail, canal, pack animal
Production: degrowth, post-work, 4-day work week, collectives, worker cooperatives, unions, artisan crafts, cottage industries, salvage economy, biomimicry, cradle to cradle design, zero waste, closed loop, appropriate technology, low tech, voluntary simplicity, downshifting, workaway, WWOOF
Consumption: mutual aid, sharing economy, voluntary simplicity, downshifting, upcycling, reuse centers, thrift stores, free stores, repair cafes, toolshares, library of things, makerspaces, buy local
Economy: degrowth, conservation, efficiency, de-industrialization, localism, community banking, local credit union, local currency, no-means-test universal basic income, alternatives to GDP like the Happiness Index, circular economy, doughnut economics, salvage economy, public ownership of resources and utilities, bioregionalism, public commons, land trusts, value added tax, carbon tax, plastic tax, toxin tax, wealth tax
Law & Order: rights of nature, rights of Mother Earth, harm reduction, decriminalization, restorative justice, defund the police, community policing, prison reform (see Norway and Finland), universal international law (ICC and ICJ), UN reform (especially Security Council)
Politics: civic groups, direct action, affinity groups, culture jamming, monkeywrenching, Earth First, Earth Liberation Front (ELF), Animal Liberation Front (ALF), non-violent communication, consensus building and sociocracy, conflict resolution, ranked choice voting, proportionate representation, green party politics, eco-socialism, libertarian socialism, democratic confederalism
Spirituality & Philosophy: deep ecology, ecosophy, biocentric, scientific animism, quantum mysticism, indigenous knowledge, Iroquois Law of Seven Generations, rewilding, Neo-Luddism, anarcho-primitivism, primitive living skills, social ecology (Bookchin), communalism, systems thinking, biodegradable burials, wildlife habitat regeneration
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