Relocalization – Oct 23
Thesis on peak oil and potential solutions
Transition Towns: Ecotopia Emerging?
Economic crisis indicates critical need for relocalization
Building Community
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.
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
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 17
10 Paths and More to Green Citizenry
The Transition Network Structure Document is Finished!!
Breaking down fences makes good neighbors
Protecting our families and future in a time of crisis
Carolyn Baker reviews Sharon Astyk’s Depletion And Abundance
“When I realized that everything was going to change, I was at first afraid. Because I thought, if my government or public policy or other choices weren’t going to fix everything, what could I possibly do? What hope was there, if I had to take care of myself, if my community had to take care of itself?”
Food & agriculture – Oct 15
Farmer in Chief
Record numbers of people are looking for food
Marijuana cartels polluting California
Deep thought and depression – Oct 14
Monbiot: Stock collapse is petty compared to the nature crunch
Tom Engelhardt: My depression – or ours?
Sharon Astyk thinking ahead: predicting the depression
Ruppert: What really happened today
Dysfunction – Oct 13
The frugal teenager, ready or not
China lung disease ‘to kill 83m’
Nonprofits, charities brace for the worst
Food & agriculture – Oct 13
Michael Pollan: Farmer in Chief
Heavy metal-eating “superworms” unearthed in U.K.
Uniting around food to save an ailing town
Paradigm busting in a peak energy world
This message of an ever more negative economic outlook was not even acceptable for discussion among my entrepreneurial peers who were kept inspired by an endless parade of motivational speakers. As I related the positive-to-the-point-of-delusion attitude of my business colleagues, to my peak oil companions, Kurt, who was himself from a business family, assured me that entrepreneurs must be overly positive because going into business for oneself is one of the craziest things you can do.
