Solutions & sustainability – Sept 25
Making the Tarmac bloom
Towpaths and bicycle commuting
High Point: Seattle’s green community
Wal-Mart grows ‘green’ strategies
The religious war on bottled water
Act: Inspiration
Energy: preparations and possibilities
In place of business-as-usual or survivalist fantasies, lifestyle changes and conservation technologies can be put to work to manage the transition into deindustrial society.
Social Fertilizer: The big growth potential of urban agriculture
Community gardens are primarily hobbies here in Vancouver, but internationally they are known for their ability to feed entire cities.
Community and Curtailment
The handwriting is on the wall – massive
change is in the offing – and we are totally unprepared. For this New Solutions we will discuss options for addressing these threats under the rubric of four “plans” arbitrarily labeled A, B, C and D.
The good news is local (interview)
Jason Bradford is a PhD evolutionary biologist who studied the effects of climate change on cloud forests in the Andes under the auspices of the Missouri Botanical Garden and other institutions. But in 2004 he switched his focus from study to action by initiating a remarkable community organizing effort in his new home town of Willits, California, called Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL).
Community Solutions
Endless discussion of peak oil statistics isn’t of much interest to me. Nor is sitting around trying to guess the exact date of the arrival of the peak. The response of our communities to this coming era of human history, now that blows my hair back.
Imagine… Sept 12
Gaviotas
Other economies are possible!
Ditch the car?
Canal dreaming: solving the energy crisis
If gas taxes had been increased 5 years ago
How cities are preparing for global warming & peak oil
Special issue – one of the best yet from HopeDance. All articles are online and free.
A party plan for raising peak oil awareness
Fun motivates.
Andi and I immediately recognised a novel way to catch people’s interest and a good hook for motivating people to become involved. Put the focus on what we are creating – not what we are leaving behind.
Peak oil in Yellow Springs Ohio
The third U.S. Conference on ‘Peak Oil’ & Community Solutions will place in Yellow Springs, Ohio – September 22 – 24, 2006.
The Demise of a Techno-fix Psyche
I would describe myself as a recovering engineer. Technology has been an integral part of my life. At one time I had viewed advancing technology as the answer to all of our problems and the only tool necessary in improving our relationship with the natural world. The last several years have changed that.
When we finally take the off ramp
If you are in one of the cars rushing by on the freeway, your efforts are just as important as mine as a farmer to develop post-fossil fuel agriculture. Part of the solution is political. To a large extent, the present rural landscape in much of America is the result of federal policy that subsidizes massive production of just a few, easily industrialized crops — corn, soybeans, wheat. This policy has caused the loss of soil, biodiversity, localized food markets and farmers, resulting in a fragile system dependent on increasingly tight and insecure supplies of petroleum.
