Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
– Independent coverage of French strikes
– Guardian: a cause is being fought in France which we would do well to watch
– Sarkozy should retire, says France
– French Fury in the EU Cage: “Work Harder to Earn Less”
– French History Strikes Back
I’m not sure social networking will put feet on the ground when it counts, but it can change how we think about community and numbers of people it is possible to organize.
– Movement Building and Deep Change: A Call to Mobilize Strong and Weak Ties
– Shouts Banish Doubts
– The Persuasive Power of Swearing
– Revolutionary politics and social networking
– French protests jeopardise airport fuel supplies
– U.S. Study: World’s ‘Peak Coal’ Moment Has Arrived
– Peak Everything
– New book on the Gulf spill
– How fear of bias dominates the climate change debate
– Is Social Networking Useless for Social Change?
– Monbiot: The Values of Everything
– America’s dish detergent wars
– Can the Right Spin the Chilean Miners Story?
– A Peak Oil Lament
A new book by longtime bioregionalist Stephanie Mills tells the story of one of our forerunners in relocalization’s long history. Bob Swann may be the most important pioneer for a just world whom you’ve never heard of. He worked tirelessly over a long life to bring together practical structures for economic justice, land reform, rural investment and credit, complementary currencies, and education.
– Basra in southern Iraq has been transformed – thanks to oil
– Iraq has the oil stores, but does it have the know-how?
– Behind the coup in Ecuador
– Ecuador’s economy under Correa: 21st century socialism or the New-Extractivism? (Alberto Acosta interview)
In 1989, while attending a rally to save an old-growth forest from the corporate saw, I heard David Suzuki thunderously denounce the world’s economists for their stupidity. He accused them of encouraging economic growth while ignoring ecological limits, thus causing irreversible damage to the environment. I soon put my career on hold, returned to university, and began to study this apparently destructive discipline. My journey to the revolutionary barricades had begun.
The book is a blood, sweat and tears account of life as an elected eco warrior trying to encourage local government to work with communities to make the world a greener place, packed with great case studies and tips for Transition initiatives and Councils alike.
– Ruppert interviews Peak Moment’s Donaldson Oct 10 at 6pm PDT
– Past Peak Oil Travelling Towards Transition Animation
– Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, degrowth and ecosocialism
– 7 Steps to Civility this Election Season
– Wake Up Americans: It’s Time to Get Off the Work Treadmill
Indigenous movements have inserted concepts like ecosocialist and degrowth into the formal constitutions of the Bolivian and Ecuadorian states. Some call this movement the “Pachakuti”, a term taken from the Quechua “pacha”, meaning time and space or the world, and “kuti”, meaning upheaval or revolution. Put together, Pachakuti can be interpreted to symbolize a re-balancing of the world through a tumultuous turn of events that could be a catastrophe or a renovation.
