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Everything you need to know, in order – part II

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Ok, I’m going to try and work some more on the list of necessary skills. So five more entries on this subject – and more coming. Last time was the absolute minimum – but I’m still working on a list of everything you might ever need to know.

Lifting Drilling Moratoriums–One Important Step to Control Oil Imports

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Congressional leaders use the sound bite, “We can’t drill our way out of this oil mess.” Of course; who ever claimed we could? But we can’t conserve our way out either. Reducing demand is a long-term process; “evolution” may be a more accurate term. Tightening CAFE standards will ease demand, but the benefit would be spread over many years. For long-term reduction, we would have to overhaul our daily travel patterns through societal lifestyle changes while we restructure our cities and suburbs. Such fundamental changes will take a human generation or longer. It took decades for the car culture to evolve in the U.S. It will take that long to reverse it.

Review: Plan C by Pat Murphy and Small is Possible by Lyle Estill

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Pat Murphy’s Plan C is a rich treasury of practical suggestions for reducing fossil fuel consumption and fostering community cooperation—while Lyle Estill’s Small is Possible is an engrossing portrait of a small Southern town that is already taking these steps

The Vast Wastelands

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Undoubtedly you’ve been following, more or less, the economic crisis that energy scarcity and the mortgage debacle has largely precipitated. Depending on where you live, you’ve probably also noticed over the past few years the shopping centers, office, and industrial parks popping up continuing the urban sprawl toward the exurbs. While these new bright and shiny, luxuriously landscaped pods of energy waste are well lighted, manicured, and maintained now, all you have to do to see where they will be once they’ve been abandoned for the next wave of urban development is to reverse direction.

An interview with Starhawk; sacred activism, collapse and the role of permaculture

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“The challenge we face at this moment is pretty simple. We just need to completely transform our economy, our technology, our system of agriculture, our food system and the governance systems that go with it, and we needed to have done this all 10 years ago! It’s easy.. ” (laughs).