Food & agriculture – Jan 18
Europe takes Africa’s fish, and boatloads of migrants follow
Roadkill and sustainability
Should we be eating insects?
Farmer Jay Martin on CSAs
Community Solutions: Food, health and survival
Act: Inspiration
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 17
IPCC chief Pachauri: Lifestyle changes can curb climate change
Satish Kumar on nature, spirituality and activism
Christians playing their part in sustainability
Astyk: Making the case for self-sacrifice
A sustainability Renaissance man
Housing & urban design – Jan 17
Building green
Retrofitting your house for sustainability
Kunstler on the human habitat
Tranforming communities through locally grown food
All the stereotypes of Rutland, Vermont as “backward” and “too conservative” to relocalize its economy through local agriculture are fading into the dustbin of history. (Interview with Greg Cox of Boardman Hill Farms.)
The peak oil hometeam – Jan 16
Robert Ebersole (“oilman bob” of TOD) passes on
How peak oil changed my life
Quebec group: Peak oil, peak phosphorus and sustainability
Kunstler and Greer in adult education
Australian Greens Senators on peak oil
Energy debate in Switzerland – the civilized approach
Food, culture, and sustainability in the gardens of ethnic Americans
A new approach to gardening is highlighted in the book The Earth Knows My Name: “Just as you should never have a monocropped field, so you should never have a monocropped people. If we are going to think about diversity as the key to survival and saving the environment, I really think you can’t have biological diversity succeed without cultural diversity.”
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 15
Slow Money Revolution: the global growth of local currencies
Grow your own way: How to join the allotment in-crowd
Toward a post-oil community
Ted Trainer and Rob Hopkins interview continued
Peak Moment: What Can One Person Do?
Carpooling: A way to meet friends, influence people
Simple, small actions can be amplified. I quietly asked Bob Steinbach (at the Yellow Springs peak oil conference) if he was going my way and could give me a ride, and the next day he used the exchange to exhort a room full of hundreds of people to ask strangers for rides or give rides to strangers.
Personal – Jan 10
Stress of blogging can be a hazard to your health
How to reduce, prevent and cope with stress
Sharon Astyk: On finding my work
The services we seek
It is only half a discussion to talk about the things we’ll have to give up after peak oil and not about the ways in which we’ll obtain the services those things represent.
Medicine at the crossroads of energy and climate change
If medicine would regard peak oil as likely to occur within 12 years, in line with most predictions, then it will choose strategies which automatically address climate change as well. If the health care industry fails to lead, it will suffer the draconian consequences of having ignored the driving forces of the opening decades of the 21st century.
Survival tools — farming, stories, poetry, writing, and leaning
I sense that we are approaching a tipping point, so I decided to re-embed myself within institutions to have more contact with people and resources to help make a transition to whatever we can create to thrive during the changing times.
