Effects – July 5
World must brace for oil beyond $150
As gas prices soar, elderly face cuts in aid
Korea: High crude costs make industries mull surrender (petrochemical, travel, auto)
Act: Inspiration
Solutions & sustainability – July 4
Profile of Bill McKibben
Interview with Amory Lovins
Megan Quinn Bachman: Surviving peak oil, thriving in community
Climate dialogue groups in Seattle
Solutions & sustainability – July 3
‘Free sharing’ sites expand on Internet
Our ‘insanely cheap’ chest refrigerator
Stone ground goodness (learning to be a miller)
Taking care of yourself and medical survival
Transition town gets moving in Bay of Islands, NZ
Crisis & collapse – July 3
New book from John Michael Greer: The Long Descent
A Crash course in burning bridges (Zachary Nowak interview)
Alex Steffen: Resilient community
The end Of civilization
What lifestyles without oil?
At the Tällberg Forum in Tällberg, Dalarna, Sweden, Chief Jake Swamp from the Akwesasne Mohawk Tribe and I had a conversation about “What lifestyles without oil?”.
Housing & urban design – July 2
Canada: Today’s suburbs, tomorrow’s slums?
Rob Hopkins Film Review: Garbage Warrior
Elephant in the Drop-Off Zone
Don’t mourn – July 2
Will Obama inspire a new generation of organizers?
Real change happens off-line
Grassroots lobbying: use ideas, not one-click campaigns
Printable flyers for use in community organizing
What happens when the reality of ‘No’ becomes clear to middle class America?
What might happen when you take a society that is used to ‘Yes’ and tell it ‘No’ ?
Food & agriculture – July 1
Hoarding nations drive food costs ever higher
Slow Food Nation comes to San Francisco
Home-grown veg across UK ruined by toxic fertiliser
The Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Green Project
Interview with ‘The Future of Food’ director Deborah Koons Garcia
Rhizome platform design
Can we get away from the hierarchal model of centralized manufacture and distribution, and replace it with a world where design emerges from open-source collaboration and is manufactured at the point of use by 3-D printers and community manufacturing centers?
Peak oil strategies – June 30
Crash course- preparing for peak oil (book review)
Fixing peak oil is easy
Retreat location and avoiding the golden horde
Community solutions – June 30
‘Peak oil’ theory gains local converts in Grand Rapids
Update on Michigan peak oil conference
‘The Archers’ and self-sufficient community
Transition towns taking control of their future
Moving beyond oil in Lawrence, Kansas
