Solutions & sustainability – Oct 28
As Yard Sales Boom in Hard Times, Sentiment Is First Thing to Go
Moms are taking back the holidays by taking on consumerism
Profile: Majora Carter – nonprofit Sustainable South Bronx
Building Community
No more Mr and Ms Niceguy – Oct 27
The Rainbow Warriors from the Women’s Institute
Genteel custodian of grand houses turns eco-warrior to save green spaces
Waste watchers: Save cash and the environment
Matthew Simmons has bad news for Vermont
You think the financial crisis unfolded quickly? That’s nothing compared to how fast things could happen with oil. That’s the message Matthew Simmons, chair of the oil investment banking firm Simmons & Company International, delivered last month at a conference on peak oil. Vermont is unprepared for change of that rapidity.
Peak greed
At one time I decided to give greed a chance, immerse myself in it by devoting all of my waking hours to the study of money. If bankers and I were sharing the same floor of Hell, such an obsession couldn’t be all bad. Maybe Hell just needed a makeover. We could spruce it up, refinance it, remodel…


Coping – Oct 24
Final chapter posted in Chris Martenson’s “Crash Course”
Financial permaculture goes viral
Apocalypse, Not! (permaculturalist Toby Hemenway)
Pieces of advice for the new paupers
Hard times have some flirting with survivalism
Locasexuals – Oct 24
Date Local: The case against long-distance relationships
Eat local, get laid
George Monbiot on air travel and Love Miles
The hows, wheres, & whys of eating locally
The benefits of eating local, seasonal, organic food; where to find local food sources; and what to do if you don’t have a local food resource in your area.
Here we go a ‘blogging – Oct 23
On the Spot
Sustainable Energy Transition
Society’s downward spiral must play out first
Speculation: Inept Idiots or Wise Fools
Relocalization – Oct 23
Thesis on peak oil and potential solutions
Transition Towns: Ecotopia Emerging?
Economic crisis indicates critical need for relocalization
Climate – Oct 19
Weaving the magic number, 350, into Transition
US climate change activists go on trial
Methane hydrates: Energy’s most dangerous game
Climate change and wildfires
Review: Sharon Astyk’s “Depletion and Abundance: Life On The New Home Front”
Formerly an academic in early modern literature, Sharon Astyk has brought to peak oil the much needed female perspective. And what does that look like? Think Vandana Shiva meets Barbara Kingsolver meets the Tightwad Gazette. … She brings to the peak oil community a different quality of discourse. It robs it of the thrill of big solutions, of high tech wonders or policies imparted by government decree.
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 18
Transforming England’s towns into green and pleasant land
McKibben on Friedman: Green Fantasia
US peak oil conference – last chance for early registration
