Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
[Within the next three weeks, my forthcoming book, Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse will be released and will be available for purchase at this website and at the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites. Below is the book’s foreword written by Sarah Anne Edwards, Ph.D. and co-author of Middle Class Lifeboat.
After the crash, Iceland’s women lead the rescue
Teaching Cuba’s Energy Revolution
The Answer is in the Trees
When consumers cut back: a lesson from Japan
Say what you will, it’s still about the money
One way to cope? Grow your own
Fix-It Nation: in tough times, tailors and cobblers thrive
Amish home and garden show
Peak Oil Vortrag von Paul Nellen in Tübingen
Ölpreisentwicklung von Andy Sommer (HSH Nordbank)
New German-language peak oil-aware newsletter now online
Renewable energy is major source of carbon reduction in Germany: a response to the ‘Spiegel’ article
UK allotments boom as thousands go to ground in recession
NYT on Urban Composting: A New Can of Worms
Portland, Maine allows backyard chickens
Family of 5 weathers economy with 7 housemates
Can I Lose My Car Without Losing My Home?
Neighbors Helping Neighbors—to Break Into Vacant Houses
Treating the Blues Could Save the Planet
UVic bans plastic utensils, uses bamboo instead
How to Start a Farm with No Land and Little Money
Bantry CSA – the Community Solution to Getting Your Oats?
It Starts at Home
Meet the doomsayers of our time
Buckminster Fuller’s Critical Path
Growth (some conservatives re-thinking growth)
The ways out of the crisis evoke the lifestyle of Amish communities rather than the apocalyptic vision of Mad Max. (French Cyberpunk/futurology e-zine interviews mild-mannered peak oil journalist.)
An Update from Transition around the world
Powerdown Toolkit #3: It’s All Connected
New HopeDance
Green burials
Entropypawsed Chickens
Transition is a huge social experiment, and the States embraces new ways of thinking much more so than the UK….On a related note, the pioneer spirit is very much alive in the States and embodied by many survivalists….Transition US hopes to be able to engage the survivalist community. We recognize that they have many of the skills that will be needed in a post peak world, and we honor that wisdom.
It has been fascinating to read a series of three articles at PeakOilBlues.com looking at the arrival of Transition in the US…Apart from having a fantastic title that I really wish I had thought of, the piece also raises some key questions needing contemplation as Transition continues to spread vigorously across the US. I wanted to take the opportunity to address some of Kathy’s points in this post.
