Front Cover -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Rights Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Where We Went Wrong -- Part One: Energy Availability -- On The Cusp of Collapse:Complexity, Energy and the Globalized Economy -- Future Energy Availability: The Importance of "Net Energy" -- Calculating the Energy Internal Rate of Return -- Energy and Water: The Real Blue-Chips -- Part Two: 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 -- 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 Tax Reform that Stabilized a City's Economy -- Definancialization, Deglobalization and Relocalization -- Part Three: New Ways of Using the Land -- Proximity 2.0: 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 Four: 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 Five: 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 Six: 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 Might Remove Them -- Cultivating Hope and Managing Despair -- Collapse or No Collapse: We Need to Respect to Survive -- Enough: A Worldview for Positive Futures -- Part Seven: Ideas for Action -- Escape Routes: Fleeing Vesuvius - Which Way Should We Go? -- Should the United States Try to Avoid a Financial Meltdown? -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index.