Solutions & sustainability – Mar 1
Swiss doctor walks for Mother Earth
McKibben: First, step up
Swiss people power prepares to fight global warming
One nation under Elvis: An environmentalism for us all
Activism
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 27
‘Eco-awakening’ affects lifestyle choices
Relocalization Network newsletter
Peak Moment TV newsletter
Peak energy tour coming to UK in 2008
At the movies – Feb 26
There Will Be Blood– dramatization of peak oil?
Renewal (religious environmental activism)
The Gleaners and I (extreme recycling)
The church model for environmental groups
What would be required to start neighborhood groups that might engage people within our existing communities, and enable those communities to start preparing for climate change and peak oil?
Eugene, Oregon: Community and personal collapse preparation
Eugene makes an interesting case-study of a mid-sized city confronting the triple threat of Peak Oil, climate change, and financial meltdown. The area seems the perfect fit for relocalization. On the other hand, there is a wide gap between adding buzz words to the city manager’s lexicon and actually changing business as usual. Food security is a good place to start. (In-depth interview with writer and activist Dan Armstrong, part 1)
Climate policy – Feb 20
Costa Rica aims to be carbon-neutral
Climate change spurs local action
Rich, poor and climate change
24 world cities in ‘Earth Hour’ black-out
Monbiot: Juggle a few numbers, and it makes economic sense to kill people
Deep thought – Feb 18
Missing: the ‘right’ babies
Hierarchy is the result of dependency
Entropy is the problem, not energy
United States: criticism/self-criticism session
Are Americans hostile to knowledge?
The dumbing of America
The US state of denial
The former United States of America
Seize the day – Threshold moments and the hope for change
We have only to look at historical events to see that it is perfectly possible, for both good and ill, to radically change circumstances in a host of ways that looked completely impossible not very long before.
Climate mobilization: suddenly a dam breaks
Interview with climate scientist Susanne Moser: “A dam works well and for a long time, until one day it breaks. A social movement builds slowly and quietly, until one day it takes off and major political changes become possible. We’re witnessing the building of such a climate protection movement right now.”
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 13
Does peak oil “make ordinary politics irrelevant”?
Monastery throws switch on green initiatives
Generation Green taking on parents to help them save the planet
How former miners transformed a pit into an energy village
Eco-villages prove to be sustainable
Rep. Bartlett – Talk to your Representative about peak oil!
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett has made about 30 speeches to the House about peak oil, and a book is in the works. In an interviewer with an Energy Bulletin contributor, he suggests raising the peak oil issue with your Member of Congress.
