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A taxonomy of collapse. For those of us who have gone through the emotional stages of reconciling ourselves to the prospect of social and economic upheaval, it might be helpful to have a more precise terminology that goes beyond such emotionally charged phrases as the ever-popular “Collapse of Western Civilization.”
Earthships and the Garbage Warrior
Radiant City: Canadian documentary on sprawl
Government seeks UK’s first ‘cycling city’
History is chock full of wars, the rise and fall of empires and of whole civilizations, ravaging plagues, breathtaking discoveries, vast migrations, world-changing inventions and cultural evolution. So, it is a puzzle why so much emphasis is now put on the supposed inevitable continuity of modern industrial life.
What would be required to start neighborhood groups that might engage people within our existing communities, and enable those communities to start preparing for climate change and peak oil?
Well, Doctor, I have this recycling problem
Tantalising glimpses of resilience (Hunza)
Luz Girl of the Knowing (peak oil cartoon)
Food for body and soul
New models of shared leadership
Shock tactics (displaying electricity usage)
£25 congestion charge will hit 30,000 of worst polluting vehicles, says London mayor
KunstlerCast: Drugstores
L.A. to enact tighter green building standards
Passive survivability – buildings remain livable when electricity, fuel or water are unavailable
Missing: the ‘right’ babies
Hierarchy is the result of dependency
Entropy is the problem, not energy
Are Americans hostile to knowledge?
The dumbing of America
The US state of denial
The former United States of America
New York Times on eco-moms
Sharon Astyk on ‘Pleasures’
Generation Green taking on parents
Going green for 80 cents a day
OPEC finance chiefs to discuss $ oil pricing
The door to Iraq’s oil opens
Iranians scheme to elude sanctions
Energy policy is foreign policy
Does peak oil “make ordinary politics irrelevant”?
Monastery throws switch on green initiatives
Generation Green taking on parents to help them save the planet
How former miners transformed a pit into an energy village
Eco-villages prove to be sustainable
There may be an instinctual basis for our love of suburbia, one that may be hard to break through even as the cheap oil which has made suburbia possible disappears.
