Collapsing Upwards
Posted by Big Gav
With "The long road down: decline and the deindustrial future" giving us the choice between apocalyptic collapse and a slow, endless decline, it is perhaps worth considering that a lower energy future doesn't have to be a worse future.
WorldChanging has a good article called Collapsing Upwards that discusses the possibility that things could actually be better down the track (admittedly its easier to imagine this scenario in places like Europe and Brazil, or even Canada, than it is in the United States).