Futures – May 11
A green industrial revolution?
Videos: Cuba’s green revolution
Biofuels and the rise of nationalistic environmentalism
Activism
Outposts – May 9
Peak oil task force for Bellingham, Wash.
‘Peak oil’ is here. Now what? (R.I.)
Dream of cohesive Cascadia never dies
Food & agriculture – May 6
‘Zero mile diet’ blooms in BC – gardening boom
City neighborhoods loss of supermarkets
Billions at risk from wheat super-blight
World food crisis: sources and solutions
The world’s food insecurity – echoes of 70s
Urban design – May 6
WaPo: Fighting global warming block by block
City of Swiss-style hill villages envisioned for Vancouver
Bellingham planning for PO
Are livable cities just a dream?
Food crisis – Apr 27
The troubles with food (food security vs food sovereignty)
Anti-hunger protests in Haiti
Avoidable hunger (subsidies)
Afghanistan food riots
Deep thought – Apr 25
Sharon Astyk: Ok, breathe
The politics of food is politics
Peak civilization and the winter of our disconnect
Everything you think you know about modern society is wrong (and why it matters for PO)
Geopolitics – Apr 21
The US, China, peak oil, and the demise of neoliberalism
What power looks like: meet the superclass
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 17
Activist LeDuke focuses on climate, PO, food
Australia’s 2020 Summit: ‘Now that’s a bright idea’
Transition City Leeds
Climate – Apr 16
Melting mountains called a water ‘time bomb’
High energy prices reshape climate debate
John Bellamy Foster: Capitalism & climate change
Transport – Apr 8
Ten reasons why NYC’s congestion pricing plan went belly up
Truckers hit the brakes over high price of diesel
Railroads expanding at a record clip
More trains for Grand Central Station
Climate – Apr 8
Map animation of greenhouse gas sources – ‘like a beating heart’
Will capitalism survive climate change? The South’s dilemma
Engdahl sees climate and PO as hype from elites
Resilient communities: A guide to disaster management
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?
