Food & agriculture – Aug 31
When genetically modified plants go wild
Monsanto buys ‘Terminator’ seeds company
Grist gets hungry (3)
New books tells us where our food comes from
Kitchen stories – a craving for fellowship
Act: Inspiration
Housing & group living – Aug 29
Flash! – communes on the rise again
Think small, think local (Earthaven)
Real estate: smaller to become better
Curbing the big, the bad, the ugly in L.A.
Food & agriculture – Aug 28
– Alice Waters: Slow food nation
– One thing to do about food: A forum
(Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Wendell
Berry, Winona LaDuke, Dr. Vandana Shiva…)
– Stewards of wine land (sustainable vinyards)
– California seeks to clear hemp of a bad name
– Black farms, black markets
– Local food in small towns (interviews)
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 27
– In praise of zealous nuts
– Permaculture – permanent agriculture
– NPR: eating local, thinking global
– My low-carbon diet
– “Sustainable well-being” – theme of
2007 AAAS conference
Exploring emotional reactions to peak oil
I’m a psychologist, I’m not a geologist, financial expert, political analyst or economist. Yet, my world was dramatically changed when I learned about Peak Oil and began to read about all the related issues.
Helping cities, towns and municipalities adapt to peak oil
For readers interested in what can be done on a local level, please consider taking the following suggestions and recommendations to your local government leaders. (Report and recommendations from a member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force.)
Urban design – Aug 24
– Cities healthy for cars, unhealthy for people
– Building the New Urbanism
– Eco-friendly small-town America
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 22
Fight or flight? / That’s enough oil – I’m going to make my own energy from now on / Meditations on deciding never to fly again / 3rd U.S. conference on peak oil and community solutions (Ohio Sept 22-24) /
APSO 5: Plan B – enabling relocalisation as a response to peak oil
When oilmen turn sour on crude
Former oilman Jeffrey Brown and activist Nan Hildreth have been spreading the Peak Oil message. They’re part of a Peak Oil mini-conference this Sunday in Houston.
The New Frontier
As an unusually long and sweltering heat wave enveloped the traditionally mild San Francisco Bay Area, power outages knocked out air conditioning, and gas prices under $3.00 a gallon seemed like leisure suits or vinyl LPs, relics of a long forgotten era, those who have been warning of the consequences of global warming and the eventual decline of a fossil fuel-based life felt an awkward sense of vindication.
Apocalypse always: Is the peak oil movement really just another apocalyptic cult?
Even if peak oil production turns out to be decades away, the contributions of the peak oil movement are already manifold. The people involved are forcing a re-evaluation not only of the idea of energy and its sources, but of the very way in which we live
Peak oil – Aug 5
Interview: Michael Armstrong, staff to the Portland Peak Oil Task Force / Hirsch talk at U of Calgary (slides) / San Francisco Supervisor on peak oil / 3rd Community Solutions peak oil conference – Ohio Sept 22-24
