Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kjell Aleklett In California and Nevada many new cities sprang up in the wake of the gold rush and today some of those places are either ghost towns or tourist towns. The oil in Texas and off its coast has been the foundation for Texas’ greatness but a conclusion that I could draw from what I saw was that, for Texas, peak oil may have begun.
– White House goes green with solar panels
– The New Yorker on how the Senate & White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change
– Business is changing the landscape of the climate battleground
– California’s Proposition 23: The Real Job Killer
– Is Venezuela the Next Flashpoint for Oil?
– Iraq Is Back In The Game
– Jim Baldauf of ASPO-USA in “The Hill”: the end of oil as we know it
– Jeff Rubin: Depletion Is Economic, Not Just Geological, Concept
– Shale oil boom underlines importance of innovations on another fuel – oil shale
– LNG Trumped
Carol has stories to tell about picking blackberries. For her family in Kentucky, wild blackberries were a cash crop. Her mother would sally forth into the puckerbrush with her children every summer to pick them by the gallon. They sold the berries along with other produce from garden and orchard at local farm markets. The blackberry money was used to buy new school shoes.
Seed swaps are lots of fun. People gather to exchange seeds, but at the same time they swap garden stories, garden tips, and generally connect with each other around food gardening.
TOD’s contribution to Honda’s “Racing Against Time” thought leadership series.
How can Transition Towns and Common Security Clubs help us navigate a changing economy and environment?
(Common security clubs are typically founded by people concerned about their economic security. These small groups of 10-25 adults are consciously breaking down the isolation and fear triggered by the 2008 economic meltdown.)
– Why I Left My Publisher in Order to Publish a Book
– Twitter and Facebook cannot change the real world, says Malcolm Gladwell
– The Jewish Journal: Ten Commandments of social networking
– At Flagging Chicago Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture
The market does some crucial jobs so well that we’re tempted to make a quasi-religion of it. But at other jobs it fails: for example, at giving a timely signal to prepare for “peak oil.”
Keynote talks by Nicole Foss (Stoneleigh of The Automatic Earth), Dr. Joe Tainter (author of “The Collapse of Complex Societies), Steve Keen (author of “Debunking Economics” and winner of the Revere Award), Richard Douthwaite (author of “The Ecology of Money”, David Korowicz (director for the Risk/Resilience Network), Chris Bedford (president of the Center for Economic Security), and Aaron Wissner (president of Local Future).
Politicians don’t seem willing to face a difficult reality: There is no solution, if by “solution” we mean producing enough energy to maintain our current levels of consumption indefinitely.
Welcome to the premiere issue of Transition Voice, the new online magazine covering the predicaments of peak oil, climate change, economic crisis, and the the Transition movement’s response.
