Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Below are comments I presented before my local transportation planning agency concerning its 2030 plan [in which I question the assumption that liquid fuels will remain abundant and cheap]. I hope these comments will provide some ideas for those who want to comment on plans in their own locales.
A while back a gentleman named Harvey Winston sent me an email, trying to explain why it is that the peak oil and climate change movements are as lily white as they are.
Local government responses to peak oil
Studies: If it feels good to be good, it might be only natural
Vatican goes green with solar roofs
Chinese activist praises Oregon’s green ways
Economist Tom Greco on reinventing money
‘Deep Economy’: ideas for a better world
Manufactured landscapes
Interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon
The hard facts about parabolic spikes
[More] or (Less)
Because we’re worth it
Toxic Culture USA
John Michael Greer: Future fiction
Building a strong local food system via the 100 mile diet challenge
Astyk: reduce energy consumption- eat seasonally
BC conference: Changing ecologies of food and agriculture
Germany: Biofuel boom jacks up price of beer
If, all of a sudden your work was to disappear from the planet – no one was doing it – how much would anyone really suffer?
how i became a peak oiler
To all the geeks, gamers, and non-attention payers
Denial
Awakening to the threat of excessive material consumption
The case for relocalization will be made in the context of responding sensibly to two problems facing societies right now: climate change and peak oil and gas. Relocalization advocates rebuilding more balanced local economies that emphasize securing basic needs.
“People are much more knowledgeable and ready to get involved. People are saying we are not here to discuss, we are here to take action.” (Interview with Australian climate change and rainforest protection activist Ruth Rosenhek.)
Barbara Kingsolver: Eating locally and debunking the red-blue divide
Kingolver talk (video)
How green is your garden? Not as much as you might think.
Richard Douthwaite on complementary money systems
Julian Darley on economics, the money system and capitalism
No efficiency without controls
McKinsey report: Invest in existing technologies to lower energy demand growth
HopeDance special on “LOCAL”
Heinberg: Talking ourselves to extinction
New transcripts and translations on GPM
The system of getting nearly all our food from industrial agriculture located elsewhere works as long as petrochemicals are cheap. If the world reaches the “peak” of petroleum (and later of natural gas) production, the price of food would most certainly increase If we take this contingency of expensive food seriously, what is to be done?
