Solutions & sustainability – Oct 5
Australia’s first Transition Town!
Investing that is really socially responsible
Life without lights in a Ghanaian village
Trials and tribulations of setting up a local Climate Action group
Activism
The holiness of Stuart Staniford
Ruminations about Stuart Staniford’s work at The Oil Drum from a Christian perspective, why he exhibits some religious virtues and why the doomer perspective does not.
Climate policy – Oct 3
China offers surprise hope in climate fight
Tourist industry pledges climate-friendly future
Oil-rich Norway must play bigger climate role
“Stop Climate Chaos” group galvanizes UK
Using game theory to analyze future of international treaties
Burma – Oct 3
Burma: It’s the oil and gas, stupid
Amy Goodman: Chevron’s pipeline is the Burmese regime’s lifeline
The hardship that sparked Burma’s unrest
Costly fuel is never far from a match
Oil versus monks
Global hypocrisy on Burma
Peak oil – Oct 1
Economic impact of peak oil
Kunstler: Two clues for the clueless
How economy could survive oil at $100/barrel
Costly fuel is never far from a match (price rises = turmoil)
ASPO’S Steve Andrews: online PO lecture Tuesday
Buckee of Talisman “believes in peak oil theory”
College sophomore discovers peak oil
PO 10-20 years away, claims WEC
ODAC News
The nonheroes of peak oil
We laud heroes who save us from dangers that are immediate and concrete. The most obscure of heroes are those who prevent bad things from happening
Secede from the United States?
Interview with Rob Williams of Vermont Independence, an organization working to establish The Second Vermont Republic.
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 25
Planning for hard times: The Community Solution
The end is nigh. Be positive
Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben on blessed unrest and deep economics
Permaculture for the post carbon transition
Peak oil conspiracies
Ancient peoples often imagined that any calamity natural or otherwise was the work of displeased gods. Today, we are more enlightened. When we suffer misfortunes such as rising energy prices, some of us immediately imagine small secretive groups in high places engaged in elaborate conspiracies.
Deep thought – Sept 23
Sharon Astyk: Why I believe in individual action
Who said Marx wasn’t green?
Is it time for Americans to start cutting our baby emissions?
Mass-produce the change – Sept 16
Amy Goodman at the “Global Triple Crisis” teach-in (Korten & Shiva)
10 things we can do: Rebuilding civil society
The power of voluntary actions
Can this really save the planet?
Don’t just be the change, mass-produce it
Is peak oil a guy thing?
As the crisis deepens, those focused on spreading the word (whether in a “confrontational” manner or not) and those focused on inclusiveness and the implementation of responses will find that they need each other as much as the world needs to hear and see what both groups have to offer.
