Solutions & sustainability – March 10
Creating a Home Graywater System
Community as Technology
Foodzoning the Foodshed
Building Community
Complications
A relocalized world would probably mean a more complicated existence. Instead of having others simply take care of these things for us, we would have to become much more actively involved.
Coping – March 8
How $30,000 can be more than $300,000
Hanging On, or how to get through a depression and enjoy life
For many homeless students, schools substitute for homes
The upside of moving back into your parents’ basement
The peak oil economic depression has arrived
Both increasing unemployment and declining stock values indicate that we are entering an economic depression similar to the Great Depression. Although it is difficult to determine how much of this economic depression is caused by Peak Oil impacts and how much stems from mismanagement of the economy as well as from business and government corruption, Peak Oil plays a major role.
The lost art of bodging
Bodging describes the act of creating things from a mish mash of available materials in a makeshift workshop. Derived from the term to bodge which specifically refers to the turning of tree branches into chair legs using a foot operated lathe. Such free materials as a bodger might use, today, can be found in the form of recyclables left on the curb and the rapidly disappearing “big trash” day.
Visions of change – March 6
Rees’s Thesis
Reimagining Socialism
Together, We Save the Planet
The Revolution Has Already Occurred
Follow Brazil’s Example
Transition towns
Lost Generation
Time-travel economics with Jonathan Swift
The Reverend Dr. Swift put his ruddy all-probing finger on several of our worst maladies: upward mobility, contempt for the places that sustain us (doubly detestable in those who have “risen” from such places), outsourcing, enslavement to fashion, which is naught but the Tyranny of the Next Thing, and the habit of raising children to do nothing more productive than sit on their Frito-fed fannies until the entertainment industry has successfully amused them into an intellectual indolence exceeded only by their physical inertia.
Deep thought – March 5
Lessons from the Collapse of the USSR (Orlov video)
British historian Mark Jones on the world crisis
The Free Nature Movement
Nate Hagens – On Credit, Depletion, Energy Nationalization – Radio Interview
EntropyPawsed:Sense of Place
Development of a sense of place is integral to leading a fulfilled low energy lifestyle. One might even say a nature linked low energy lifestyle requires an expanded sense of place.
Deep thought – March 3
Towards a Scale-Free Energy Policy
Bright Green, Light Green, Dark Green, Gray: The New Environmental Spectrum
The World of Tomorrow 1 The Old Future
Is it time for a four day working week ?
While the usual reason for adopting a shorter work week is economic, there is also an argument that working less hours reduces consumption and waste and can thus be justified on environmental and health grounds. It’s been recommended by a number of peak oil observers as a way to reduce energy consumption.
Rethinking Energy: conservation, curtailment, efficiency and appropriate technology
Energy is first and foremost a demand issue- how much do we need and for what ?- and yet the majority of public debate on the issue is to do with finding new sources of supply so as to allow industrial growth to continue.
