by James Howard Kunstler

     Societies periodically go insane. Fallacious memes sweep through a frightened and confused populace and bad things happen, bad choices get made. Two bad ideas in particular infect the American thought-o-sphere these days: 1) …

#233 — JHK chats with Jim Quinn, author of The Burning Platform dot com. Jim Quinn spent most of his career as a financial executive in the corporate world and now works on the business side of a major university (name of it omitted at JQ’s request). …

From the newly published book

Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents

 The Zombies of Gund Hall Go Forth to Eat America’s Brains

by James Howard Kunstler

            Long about the late 1990s, anxiety beset …

This essay is a review of Dmitry Orlov’s excellent new book, The Five Stages of Collapse. I can’t recommend the book highly enough. Orlov is one of the great literary stylists of his generation as well as one of the …

My latest essay on Chris Martenson’s Peak Prosperity Website:
WHY OUR CURRENT WAY OF LIVING HAS NO FUTURE 
Rampant malinvestment is creating scarcity of capital, energy & justice…

For several years this past decade, we lived in rented houses where it was not practical to build a garden – given the expense and issue of altering somebody else’s property. In the fall of 2011, we bought a place …

I moved here in November and have been exploring it through this weird, snowless winter of 2012.

Greenwich After the Civil War. Before the war its name was Union, NY,
and before that it was called Whipple City
after its …