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We’ve been gearing up this past month for the release of Richard Heinberg’s next book, Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis, which will published in June by New Society Publishers. His schedule has kept him busy with presentations and interviews, including one we feature this month with the Italian magazine Consapevole. Richard will be speaking in New York City and Washington, D.C. in late June as part of the book launch — check our events calendar for the latest venues and times.
Our growing team of Fellows has kept busy, too. Bill McKibben is on a round-the-world tour promoting the 350.org campaign, the October 24th Global Day of Action on Climate, and the need to build a global movement on climate change. Rob Hopkins and Daniel Lerch are featured in a newly-released DVD of The Powerdown Show, a 10-episode series by Ireland’s Cultivate Centre on the Transition movement. And Dave Hughes and Bill Rees are both featured in interviews with Canadian publications.
…Also, we’re putting out a call for volunteer translation checkers. If you speak Italian, Croatian, Czech, or French fluently and would like to offer a couple hours of your time, read on.
Contents
1. New Fellows & Advisors
2. New Content by Post Carbon Staff
3. Post Carbon Fellows in the Media
4. Transition United States
5. Energy Bulletin highlights
6. Global Public Media highlights
7. Translation Checkers Needed!
(29 May 2009)
The 8 Green Steps to Solartopia
Harvey Wasserman, CommonDreams
The noble vision of a Solartopian green-powered Earth is at last upon us.
Our eco-future is defined by the four Great Green Truths: we have a global crisis, it has a solution, the solution is winnable, and winning requires a “middle path” of action that is both non-violent and non-stop.
There are technological solutions to the crisis, but they demand political action. Together they comprise the Eight Green Steps to a sustainable world:
1.BAN WASTE AND WAR: Nothing may be produced that cannot be fully recycled or that will not completely bio-degrade. This includes weapons whose sole purpose is death and destruction, and whose manufacture and use must be ended by a global community that knows war to be the ultimate act of ecological suicide.
2.MAXIMIZE EFFICIENCY & CONSERVATION: From energy to building materials, food to fiber, water to paper, our resources must be preserved. Our unsustainable consumption and wasteful industries must be made appropriate and efficient, starting with a reborn mass transit system and complete preservation of all remaining virgin land and waters.
3.TRANSCEND FOSSIL/NUKE …
4. CONVERT TO RENEWABLES …
5. GO ORGANIC …
6. TRANSFORM THE CORPORATION …
7. ASSURE SOCIAL DEMOCRACY …
8. EMPOWER WOMEN / CONTROL POPULATION …
(28 May 2009)
Resourceful Guy Builds Solar House, Solar Power, Solar Car
Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moment #145
John Weber’s Boise, Idaho house with south-facing windows rarely needs heat and never air conditioning. Meet a man who has built a passive-solar house with solar electric power and solar hot water; plus a solar-powered electric car — and who rides a bike! With photovoltaics tied to the grid, he sells surplus electricity back to the power company. John shows how he converted his “Sun Car” from a junked Festiva to all-electric, with added solar panels on top to extend its range. Ride with us – and hear how quiet it is!
(2 April 2009)
