Solutions & sustainability – April 11
Democracy Now: North Carolina town prints own currency
Boulder’s Transition movement
An urgent call to ‘buy local’
Entrepreneurs building living economies – Colorado conference in May
Building Community
Social change based on modest assumptions
Esther Duflo, a young French development economist is reinvigorating her profession by pioneering new anti-poverty strategies focused on experiment and evaluation.
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 9
My week of living (very, very) cheaply
Green Patriot Posters
Energy Co-op Brings Power to the People
What Can Transition Initiatives Learn from Smallholders?
Food & agriculture – Apr 8
A bird in the yard is worth two in the shop
Urban Foraging – a Rising, Sustainable Fad
Fighting the recession, armed with seeds
New England’s sugar country confronts a bitter future as the climate warms
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 7
Slum cooker protects environment, helps poor
TOD: What are YOU Changing (*if anything), Individually, Locally, Nationally, etc?
Walking restores the world and humanity
Post Carbon Newsletter #48, March 2009
Burning our bridges to the XXI century
As modernity runs out of resources (those photons sequestered eons ago in fossil form, now released as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere) patterns of life naturally retreat to their pre-modern forms. If there are no more sneakers from China, we sew moccasins or whittle clogs. If we are resource-poor but resourceful, we can still weave basket-like shoes out of birch bark, stuffed with straw for insulation, called lapti. If we are truly destitute and feckless to boot, then we go barefoot.
Protest – Apr 7
In America, Labor Has an Unusually Long Fuse
European workers rebel as G-20 looms
Bageant: We’ve Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls — It’s Time to Do Something Meaningful
The killing-fields of inequality
Dysfunction – Apr 7
Klare: Global Crime Wave?
Crime down in Los Angeles, other parts of Southern California
Dying alone, drowning in rubbish piled solid to the ceiling
Chinese try to curb ‘plague of desert rats’ in Tibet with contraceptives
China’s grand plans for eco-cities now lie abandoned
Mostly conceived by international architects, China’s eco-cities were intended to be models of green urban design. But the planning was done with little awareness of how local people lived, and the much-touted projects have largely been scrapped.
Peak oil – April 5
Bloomington Peak Oil Task Force
Changing of the guard in the Queensland Government (Andrew McNamara out)
Interview with chair of Canada’s “junior oil” association – a peak oiler
Nate Lewis: Where in the world will our energy come from?
Collapse psychosis: navigating the madness
The psyches of empire’s citizens are ill-equipped to deal with variation from the system’s proscribed roles or functions. Empire, like a “good” parent, gives one everything one “needs” in return for production-until it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t, the citizen has no recourse emotionally because he/she has lived in psychological symbiosis with empire since birth.
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 2
Post Carbon Institute Manifesto
Confessions of a Reformed Worrywart
The back-to-the-lander: Vandana Shiva interview
Life After Oil
A Green Future Where You Can Borrow Cars And Drink Rainwater
