Survival – May 6
BBC: Do you need to stock up the bunker?
Natural born survivors
Why are the mean girls picking on World Made By Hand?
Act: Inspiration
Oil-aholics Anonymous: a 12-step program
1. We became aware of the extent to which our present lifestyle is deeply dependent on non-renewable fossil fuels and that these will run out.
2. We came to believe that only by giving up fossil fuels and all the modes that require them, do we have the chance of long term sustainable survival and eventually to thrive in harmony with nature.
Michigan conference on peak oil & climate change May 30
Richard Heinberg, Dr. David Goodstein, Megan Quinn Bachman, Julian Darley, Pat Murphy, Albert Bates, Sharon Astyk, Katie Alvord, Aaron Wissner, Randy White, Kurt Cobb and dozens of others tackle gasoline prices, food prices, mortgage rates and the future of the global economy at peak oil, climate change, and sustainability conference.
UK solutions & setbacks – May 5
As oil prices soar, getting heat from peat
Boom in green roofs and rainwater harvesting
Switch off your tumble dryer
Londoners ‘grow their own’ YouTube site
Green tax revolt: Britons ‘will not foot bill to save planet’
Peak oil voices – May 4
James Howard Kunstler on the Colbert Report
Kunstler responds to critics
Rep. Bartlett 43rd PO speech to Congress
Heinberg speaks with Vermont leaders
Review of Kunstler’s post-peak novel by a woman who has lived the life
One thing about survivalism: it isn’t pretty but it can be fun if approached in the right frame of mind. Many people fear the possibility of survival in difficulties like we had. Yet they were not all that great a challenge if one felt strong of mind and body. I got up at 5 am to start the fires, bake the bread and feed the livestock before sending the boy and the husband out the door.
Psychological – May 2
Green is the new neurotic
Eco-anxiety: a call to action
Astyk: Kindergarten ethics and disasters
We can survive but can we communicate?
Relocalization – May 2
Rethinking our food and fuel systems
Rob Hopkins: eco worrier
Totnes – their own currency
McKibben assesses environmentalism
Natural born survivors
Heinberg on resilient communities
Recycling – May 1
Urban miners look for precious metals in cell phones
In Cairo slum, the poor spark environmental change
Book-swapping for the eco-aware reader
The waking up syndrome
The threat of what we face is huge and relentless. All who awaken to the enormity of the challenges before us still slip and slide somewhere along this continuum at times. One day we may feel encouraged with our forward action, the next we may be back to despairing.
Food & agriculture – Apr 30
UN chief warns of civil unrest amid world food shortage
Scientist: we need a new agricultural revolution
Suburbanites turn yards into cash with minifarms
Sharon Astyk’s food independence challenge
Afghan famine
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 27
Go Green: How to build an earth-friendly community
How green Is golf?
Treat efficiency as an energy resource
