Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The end is near! (Yay!) (NY TImes on the Transition Movement)
Why we forgot how to grow food (UK Times)
Homer-Dixon: A doomsayer, and a father, with a heart of faint hope
Are there demand limits to growth?
Why isn’t the brain green?
For a wide range of not-always-consistent reasons, people in Sandpoint decided that Transition could help them build the world they wanted. And now, only because enough people stepped forward and made that decision, Transition actually looked like a good tool for the job. They were picking it up by whatever handle they grasped. They were swinging it as earnestly as they could. (excerpts from an excellent article on the Transition Movement)
As it becomes impractical or impossible to provide massive federal aid to states on a continuous basis, the necessity to find local solutions to a persistent crisis may become more acute. For this reason an ongoing economic slump may end up feeding continued calls for secession as well as create receptivity to genuinely useful relocalization efforts.
British police arrest protesters before coal protest
How do environmentalists spot a mole?
Kettling: another special relationship
Rush builds a socialist revolution?
How Americans spend now: thrift nation (TIME)
When you’re flush, but acting flat broke
Economic survivalists take root
No cash? Barter for services with “dibits”
It is this that my readership has in common – anti-modernism, a fundamental skepticism that economic growth, more energy, more technology, more shiny things, minor economic social change and other incremental variations on the same basic themes can resolve the deeper problems.
In the early stages of distress, appeals to the “common good” or “cooperative engagement” may be met warmly and enthusiastically by townspeople. However, there are predictable changes as hardship, deprivation and even violence escalates, which impacts on this spirit of altruism.
Democracy Now: North Carolina town prints own currency
Boulder’s Transition movement
An urgent call to ‘buy local’
Entrepreneurs building living economies – Colorado conference in May
Esther Duflo, a young French development economist is reinvigorating her profession by pioneering new anti-poverty strategies focused on experiment and evaluation.
My week of living (very, very) cheaply
Green Patriot Posters
Energy Co-op Brings Power to the People
What Can Transition Initiatives Learn from Smallholders?
A bird in the yard is worth two in the shop
Urban Foraging – a Rising, Sustainable Fad
Fighting the recession, armed with seeds
New England’s sugar country confronts a bitter future as the climate warms
Slum cooker protects environment, helps poor
TOD: What are YOU Changing (*if anything), Individually, Locally, Nationally, etc?
Walking restores the world and humanity
Post Carbon Newsletter #48, March 2009
