Media & persuasion – June 2
Communicating Transition
Empathy Marketing 101
Miller-McCune Receives Utne Independent Press Award
Staff
Volunteer translation checkers wanted
The Post Carbon translation team is currently seeking fluent speakers of Italian, French, Czech, Croatian, or German to spend just an hour or two checking translations of works by Post Carbon Institute authors for accuracy.
A K-5 Curriculum for Students in the Post-Carbon Era
Will education be important in the post-carbon era? What will need to be taught? What skills need to be acquired? We hope to provide one alternative for educating students, after the fall of empire.
United States & Canada – June 2
Copenhagen: Slipping past a tipping point
Free carbon emissions permits could create added costs
Canada: petro-state or rich nation?
Oil economy driving growth of controversial tar sands
UK & Europe – June 2
Beyond Westminster’s bankrupted practices, a new idealism is emerging (Transition movement)
Will Hammersmith eco-village inspire new generation of Diggers?
Critique of European liberal policy on energy
Oil & the economy – June 2
Impact of Rising Global Demand on the U.S. Recovery
Kevin Drum on the coming volatility in oil prices
The recession: First, there was expensive oil
Jeff Rubin Talks about Oil and the Economy
Red Cliffs and collapse
A vital task peak oil activists unfortunately tend to overlook: how to make sure that when current polities fail, they won’t be replaced by a reincarnation of the petty kingdoms of England. That certainly does not mean encouraging every wild secessionist scheme – some are reasonable project, as in Scotland, Wales or Catalonya but most others are just recipes for disasters – but encouraging decentralization, growth of regional identities and empowerment of local authorities, so that, when the time will come, we won’t need a Battle of the Red Cliffs to avoid fighting the one of Badon Hill.
United States – June 1
How Obama Made Energy Platform ‘Pop’
The Democratic-Industrial Complex
Raising CAFE standards won’t work
Media & persuasion – June 1
Peak oil sf novel by R.C. Wilson
Post peak oil rock: Antioquia
Review: Stuffed!
Climate & environment – June 1
Rajendra Pachauri: The Silent Suffering
Wangari Maathai: ‘We Know What to Do: Why Don’t We Do It?’
Monbiot: Stern breaks the east-west deadlock on who’s responsible for CO2
71 arrested in Copenhagen resisting World Business Summit on Climate Change
Peak oil review – June 1
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-The rebound
-Brazil
-Briefs
How resilient is healthcare?
As with the financial sector and the automobile industry, healthcare will be humbled by the ongoing fiscal/economic crisis, which has hidden ecological roots and far-reaching social and political implications.
