Transition – June 26
Transition movement vs post-carbonistas
The Transition Initiative: changing the scale of change, from The Orion magazine
Transition Hohenwald: Rural Community Targets Energy Efficiency
Act: Inspiration
Solutions & sustainability – June 25
Transitioning to a post-peak oil world
What Can Happen When a Transition Initiative and its Local Government Work Together: the Stroud Story
A Look at Peak Oil Preparation Plans from Around the World
Thinking Local Part I: Bringing the Sheep Back
Recession generation? Young adults brace for simpler lifestyle
Food & agriculture – June 25
Adventures in Urban Farming
Lettuce From the Garden, With Worms
Experimental Farm Increases Ecosystem Services – Study
Transition communities gear up for society’s collapse with a shovel and a smile
Localized efforts have sprouted from the ground up in Santa Cruz, Cotati, Sebastopol, San Francisco and many other towns worldwide, where residents and neighbors are putting their heads together and collaborating on ways to relocalize themselves, bolster self-sufficiency and build the resilience that communities will need to absorb the shock of peak oil.
The history of Canada’s first grain CSA – as told through the voices of its people
Since March 2008, Deconstructing Dinner has featured The Local Grain Revolution – a series tracking the evolution of Canada’s first community supported agriculture (CSA) project for grain.
Cap and trade: unexpected friend to gas industry
You can see it in the faces of those gathered to hear the latest news on the natural gas industry: Anxiety. Anger. Fear of losing everything they have. Frustration that there seems nothing anyone can do.
Lighting a candle – June 21
Transition communities gear up for society’s collapse with a shovel and a smile
Permaculture for humanity (Larry Santoyo)
WeCommune: tech support for communes
The promise of the future: Voided by our cleverness (Transition in Salem, Oregon)
Ecocities Emerging – June issue
Peak oil taskforce says PO could cause food shortages in S.F.
The commons of the future
In many parts of the world, common resources are still an essential basis of society. Additionally, several new communities which base their practice on the shared goal of creating and preserving a commons have emerged.
Movement – June 20
Santa Cruz group gears up for life after cheap oil (Transition)
From crisis comes hope (can a weary Left come up with new ideas?)
Newfoundland/Labrador premier captures the flag from the oil patch
Greenpeace hands out fake copies of International Herald Tribune
Blowing the green whistle on sports
ODAC Newsletter – June 19
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Depletion – June 19
Multinationals eye up lithium reserves beneath Bolivia’s salt flats
Will fertiliser scarcity harm farm economy?
Pressure over land rights to increase, conference told
United States – June 19
California’s hard times driving people back to the ‘Dust Bowl’
Retailers Head for Exits in Detroit
Too Poor to Make the News
