Activism

Resilient communities: A guide to disaster management

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There are plenty of marginalized “alternatives” advocates who for decades have been researching and promoting low-energy ways of doing things that will make perfect sense in a post-petroleum environment. What if these folks could be mobilized and coordinated, their knowledge made readily available to local officials and the public at large, in preparation for the imminent period when existing systems start to fail in ever more obvious ways?

Heinberg: Resilient communities – paths for powering down:

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Now that he’d warmed us up with a talk on ‘Peak Everything,’ Richard Heinberg said he’d come back to try out some new ideas he’d working with over the past few weeks. “It’s all a big unknown,” he admitted, but had decided we were the kind of audience that could handle the unknown. Where are we? Where are we going?

Confessions of a peak oil writer

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I’ve come to accept that my influence is going to be very limited. The trick is not to let frustration hamper your ability to do a job you still consider important. While we can be encouraged by the example of the geologist M. King Hubbert, we don’t have 30 years to get this peak oil problem straightened out.