Their responses seek to build community resilience through deep adaptation and to upskill themselves in preparation for the discontinuities we can expect from changes to our energy supply, the economy, our society and the environment.

Human society is in overshoot. The five interrelated themes of Peak Planet, Peak Oil, Peak Debt, Peak Inequity and Peak Complexity underpin our emerging reality - an inevitable transition into an age of limits and a post-growth economy.

This reality is the context for our work.

Dramatic and chaotic changes are already happening. In the near future all of us are likely to experience unavoidable discontinuities to the social structures and ecosystems we are familiar with and rely on. However, our current situation also presents a range of opportunities for shifting to new ways of living, new cultures. It is the potential and dynamics of this shift that we are most interested in. There are a number of vital questions that are currently only being peripherally considered. We have come together to address them, urgently and directly.