Solutions & sustainability – Feb 26
Compostmodern ’09
4 Models for Organizing a Community for an Uncertain Future
Post Carbon Newsletter – February 2009
Building Community
Sacred Demise: By Carolyn Baker: Book Foreword By Sarah Anne Edwards, Ph.D.
[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.
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 25
After the crash, Iceland’s women lead the rescue
Teaching Cuba’s Energy Revolution
The Answer is in the Trees
Coping – Feb 23
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
Food & agriculture – Feb 20
UK allotments boom as thousands go to ground in recession
NYT on Urban Composting: A New Can of Worms
Portland, Maine allows backyard chickens
Coping
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
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 20
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
Peak oil Deutschland
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
Deep thought – Feb 18
Meet the doomsayers of our time
Buckminster Fuller’s Critical Path
Growth (some conservatives re-thinking growth)
The future is Amish, not Mad Max: interview with Bart Anderson of EB
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.)
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 18
An Update from Transition around the world
Powerdown Toolkit #3: It’s All Connected
New HopeDance
Green burials
Entropypawsed Chickens
A Response to Kathy McMahon at Peak Oil Blues
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.
