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The Early Days

• Cargo Cult Science Sunday, 15 January 2012
• Reality is..., Tuesday, 17 January 2012
• A Fundamental Change, Wednesday, 25 January 2012
• Environmental Degradation, Saturday, 3 March 2012
• Growth and Depletion, Friday, 9 March 2012
• Economic Contraction, Friday, 9 March 2012
• What does all this mean?, Friday, 30 March 2012
• What the heck do we do next? Sunday, 22 April 2012
• What I Believe, Tuesday, 26 February 2013
• What I Believe, Updated, Sunday, 6 November 2016
• Sustainability? Saturday, 30 March 2013

Emergency Preparation

• Emergency Preparation – what to do first, Part 1, Saturday, 2 June 2012
• Emergency Preparation, Part 2 – what I am doing – Bugging In, Thursday, 13 December 2012

Deliberate Descent

• Deliberate Descent - Part 1 , Sunday, 18 August 2013
• Deliberate Descent--Part 2 , Saturday, 24 August 2013
• Deliberate Descent, Part 3, Saturday, 22 March 2014

The Age of Limits

• Age of Limits 2014, Wednesday, 30 July 2014

A Political Fantasy

• The Great Contraction, Monday, 4 August 2014
• Technology Isn't the Answer, depending on what question you're asking..., Sunday, 31 August 2014
• A Political Fantasy, Part 1, Wednesday, 18 February 2015
• A Political Fanatsy, Part 2: Money and the Financial System, Friday, 17 April 2015
• A Political Fantasy, Part 3: Energy, EROEI and Non-renewable Sources, Monday, 18 May 2015
• A Political Fantasy, Part 4: Renewable Energy Sources, Saturday, 4 July 2015
• A Political Fantasy, Part 5: using energy wisely when we don't have much, Sunday, 20 September 2015
• A Political Fantasy, Part 6: Agriculture, an Overview, Thursday, 3 December 2015
• A Political Fantasy, Part 7, Agriculture: Details, Monday, 14 December 2015
• A Political Fantasy, Part 8: Agriculture -- What Lies Ahead, Friday, 29 January 2016

Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo

• Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 1, Thursday, 12 May 2016
• Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 2: BAU and The Religion of Progress, Monday, 30 May 2016
• Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 2b: More on what's wrong with Business as Usual, Sunday, 5 June 2016
• Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 3: Focusing on the Woo in Crunchiness , Monday, 13 June 2016
• Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 4: A Reality Based Approach, Sunday, 26 June 2016
• Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 5: Life in the Age of Scarcity , Saturday, 2 July 2016

The Limits to Growth

• The Club of Rome and a System Dynamics Model of the World, Thursday, 1 September 2016
• The Limits to Growth, Part 1, Sunday, 18 September 2016
• The Limits to Growth, Part 2, Sunday, 2 October 2016
• The Limits to Growth, Part 3, Tuesday, 18 October 2016
• The Limits to Growth, Part 4, Sunday, 23 October 2016
• The Limits to Growth, Part 5, Sunday, 30 October 2016

Prelude to Political Realities

• Politics and Science, Sunday, 13 November 2016
• The Big Picture, Monday, 5 December 2016
• Political Fantasies, Political Realities, Sunday, 18 December 2016
• The Collapse of Complex Societies, Part 1, Sunday, 15 January 2017
• The Collapse of Complex Societies, Part 2, Sunday, 22 January 2017
• The Art of Not Being Governed, Wednesday, 1 February 2017
• Seeing Like a State, Thursday, 9 February 2017
• The Biggest Lie, Friday, 17 February 2017
• Evaluating Existential Threats, Sunday, 5 March 2017
• Evaluating Existential Threats, Part 2: Non-anthropogenic Threats, Sunday, 12 March 2017
• Evaluating Existential Threats, Part 3: Anthropogenic Threats, Wednesday, 12 April 2017
• Evaluating Existential Threats, Part 4: Conclusions, Saturday, 6 May 2017

Political Realities--Collapse Step by Step / The Bumpy Road Down

• Collapse Step-by-Step, Part 1: Unevenly, Unsteadily and Unequally , Tuesday, 23 May 2017
• Collapse Step by Step, Part 2: End Points, Friday, 16 June 2017
• Collapse Step by Step, Part 3: Political Compasses , Saturday, 29 July 2017
• Collapse Step by Step, Part 4: Political Positions, Sunday, 6 August 2017
• Collapse Step by Step, Part 5: Political Realities, Wednesday, 30 August 2017
• Collapse Step by Step, Part 6: More on Political Realities, Monday, 9 October 2017
• Collapse Step by Step, Part 7: More on Political Realities, Continued, Friday, 13 October 2017
• Collapse Step by Step, Part 8--The Bumpy Road Down, Part 1, Sunday, 26 November 2017
• The Bumpy Road Down, Part 2, Sunday, 7 January 2018
• The Bumpy Road Down, Part 3, Monday, 15 January 2018
• The Bumpy Road Down, Part 4: Trends in Collapse, Friday, 26 January 2018
• The Bumpy Road Down, Part 5: More Trends in Collapse, Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Six Years of Blogging

• Six Years of Blogging, Thursday, 8 March 2018

Autobiographical Notes

• Autobiographical Notes, Part 1: 1954 to 1973, Wednesday, 28 March 2018
• Autobiographical Notes, Part 2: 1973 to 1992, Wednesday, 18 April 2018
• Autobiographical Notes, Part 3: 1992 to 2014, Monday, 7 May 2018
• Autobiographical Notes, Part 4: My Peak Oil Journey, Thursday, 14 June 2018
• Autobiographical Notes, Part 5: Becoming a Kollapsnik, Tuesday, 17 July 2018

Responding to Collapse

• Preparing for Collapse, A Few Rants, Wednesday, 25 July 2018
• Responding to collapse, Part 2: Climate Change, Saturday, 15 September 2018
• Responding to collapse, Part 3: Declining Surplus Energy, Friday, 26 October 2018
• Responding to collapse, Part 4: getting out of the city, Wednesday, 21 November 2018
• Responding to collapse, Part 5: finding a small town, Friday, 28 December 2018
• Responding to Collapse, Part 6: finding a small town, continued, Monday, 28 January 2019
• Responding to Collapse, Part 7: A Team Sport, Monday, 18 March 2019
• Responding to Collapse, Part 8: Pitfalls and Practicalities of That Team Sport, Tuesday, 26 March 2019
• Responding to Collapse, Part 9--Getting Prepared, Part 1, Thursday, June 13, 2019
• Responding to Collapse, Part 10: the future of the power grid, Wednesday, 17 July, 2019
• Responding to Collapse, Part 11: coping with power outages, the basics, Sunday, August 25, 2019
• Responding to Collapse, Part 12: Coping with longer power outages, Thursday, September 19, 2019
• Responding to Collapse, Part 13: keeping the lights on when the grid goes down forever, Wednesday, 16 October 2019
• Responding to Collapse, Part 14: adapting to life without the grid, Tuesday, 29 October 2019
• Responding to Collapse, Part 15: shortages of diesel fuel, Wednesday, 27 November 2019
• Responding to Collapse, Part 15: Addendum, Saturday, 21 December 2019
  Diesel vs. battery powered semi trucks for shipping
  Biodiesel powered tractors vs. horses for farming
• Responding to Collapse, Part 16: Shortages of Money, Part 1, Tuesday, 3 March 2020
• Responding to Collapse, Part 17: Shortages of Money, Part 2, Friday, 27 March 2020

Collapse, You Say?

• Collapse You Say? Part 1, Introduction, Tuesday, 30 June 2020
• Collapse, you say? Part 2: Inputs and Outputs, Wednesday, 30 September 2020
• Collapse, you say? Part 3: Inputs and Outputs continued, October 7, 2020
• Collapse, you say? Part 4: growth, overshoot and dieoff, January 2, 2021
• Collapse, you say? Part 5: Over Population, January 8, 2021
• Collapse, you say? Part 6: Over Population and Overconsumption, Februrary 21, 2021
• Collapse, you say? Part 7: Needs and Wants, Human Nature, Politics, March 8, 2021
• Collapse, you say? Part 8: Factors which made industrialization possible, May 13 , 2021
• Collapse, you say? Part 9: Unintended Consequences of Industrialization, May 20 , 2021
• Collapse You Say? Part 10 / Time for Change, Part 1: Money, January 5, 2022
• Time for Change, Part 2: Hierarchies, February 16, 2022
• Time for Change, Part 3: Without Hierarchies? April 23, 2022
• Time for Change, Part 4: Conclusions, June 22, 2022

The Porcupine Saga

• The Porcupine Saga, Part 1: Allan Harper, July 2040—A Celebration at Porcupine; published February 24, 2023
• The Porcupine Saga, Part 2: When The Lights Went Out, Part 1, Will Harper, Wednesday, July 19, 2028; published April 30, 2023
• The Porcupine Saga, Part 3: When The Lights Went Out, Part 2, Will Harper, Thursday, July 20, 2028; published May 16, 2023
• The Porcupine Saga, Part 4: One Last Lecture, Part 1, Allan Harper, early afternoon, Tuesday, April 9, 2030; published September 25, 2023
• The Porcupine Saga, Part 5, One Last Lecture, Part 2; Allan Harper, late afternoon, Tuesday, April 9, 2030; published October 12, 2023
• The Porcupine Saga, Part 6, The Sign Above Our Gate; Allan Harper, late afternoon, Tuesday, April 9, 2030; published October 25, 2023
• The Porcupine Saga, Part 7, When We Met Jack; Will Harper, late afternoon, Saturday July 21, 2040; Allan Harper, morning, Wednesday, April 10, 2030; published January 16, 2024
• The Porcupine Saga, Part 8, When We Met Jack, Part 2; Allan Harper, midday, Wednesday, April 10, 2030; published April 23, 2024
• The Porcupine Saga, Part 9, When We Met Jack, Part 3; Allan Harper, evening, Wednesday, April 10, 2030; published May 28, 2024
• The Porcupine Saga, Part 10, When We Met Jack, Part 4; Allan Harper, evening, Wednesday, April 10, 2030; published June 3, 2024
• The Porcupine Saga, Part 11, When We Met Jack, Part 5; Allan Harper, morning, Thursday, April 11, 2030; published June 23, 2024

What I've Been Reading

2017

• What I've Been Reading, February 2017
• What I've Been Reading, March 2017
• What I've Been Reading, April 2017
• What I've Been Reading, May 2017
• What I've Been Reading, June 2017
• What I've Been Reading, July 2017
• What I've Been Reading, August 2017
• What I've Been Reading, September 2017
• What I've Been Reading, October 2017
• What I've Been Reading, November 2017
• What I've Been Reading, December 2017

2018

• What I've Been Reading, January 2018
• What I've Been Reading, February 2018

2019

2020

2021

• What I've been Reading, May 2021, Tuesday, 29 June 2021
• What I've been Reading, June 2021, Saturday, 24 July 2021
• What I've Been Reading, July and August 2021, Wednesday, 22 September 2021
• What I've Been Reading, September and October 2021, Tuesday, 16 November 2021
• What I've Been Reading, November 2021, Tuesday, 28 December 2021
• What I've Been Reading, December 2021, Saturday, 5 February 2022

2022

• What I've Been Reading, January 2022, Monday, 7 March 2022
• What I've Been Reading, February 2022, Sunday, 27 March 2022