Hallowing the descent
Quaker writer John Yungblut used the ways of thinking he found to deal with his Parkinson’s disease to provide a new way “into” times of personal and collective hardship.
Act: Inspiration
Lighting a candle – Jan 3
Co-founder of UN climate panel dies
Vandana Shiva questions globalization
Outspoken environmentalist puts his money where his mouth is
Norman Reynolds, 1941-2007: A people’s economist
Faith – Jan 3
Bill McKibben on Gandhi
Pope makes appeal to protect the environment
Religious leaders back climate-change action
Report of the United Church of Christ environment and energy task force
Cities – Jan 2
Edinburgh city initiative on ‘peak oil’
TIME: How green is your neighborhood?
Cities and energy consumption
Deep thought – Dec 20
My ancestral carbon footprint (England)
Charlie Hall’s balloon graph – no smooth transition to post-peak
Hostility to the notion of limits to growth
Bags packed for doomsday (NZ)
Food & agriculture – Dec 20
The greasier the city, the fatter its residents
Can Britain feed itself?
The Fife Diet: Local Scottish food
World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns
Food prices soar in America
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 18
Energetic students empower Cal Poly
Peak-proof music
Ted Trainer’s Transition Q&A
You’d better (not) shop around
Bottled water boycotts: Back-to-the-tap movement
Food & agriculture – Dec 18
Michael Pollan: Our decrepit food factories
Worrisome forecast for the world’s crops
Astyk: The price of things: a future agriculture
Newsweek: Food vs. fuel
How much food can I grow around my house?
Future of food in the Kootenays (conference)
Food & agriculture – Dec 12
Bertrand Russell on savants, gardeners and happiness
Oxford word of the year: “Locavore”
If it’s fresh and local, is it always greener?
Eating + Ecology = Locavore
Eco-friendly kangaroo farts could help global warming
Growing food when the oil runs out
We are what we eat
Beyond the point of no return
It’s too late to stop climate change, argues long-time journalist Ross Gelbspan — so what do we do now?
Climate – Dec 8
More than half of Amazon may be lost by 2030
Guardian special:
Cities rise to climate challenge
Virtual climate conferences?
Strategizing on the transition to organic agriculture
Astyk’s law: “Top-down strategies must be concurrent with and redundant to bottom-up strategies.”
