Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
All I can think about is how utterly unprepared most people are here in the U.S. to cope with the coming challenges swirling around the Venn-diagram intersection of global economic collapse, peak oil, and global climate change. For any problem, I find it’s always helpful (for me at least) to formulate a “to do list.”
I challenge you to buy sustainably
The carbon footprint of divorce
Finding opportunity in peak oil
A green path out of the red
Roberto Perez’s visit to Totnes
The geeks were right
Make Your Own Homemade Natural Dyes
Woody Harrelson’s view of hemp farming: strong fibres, and cuts pesticides
From Recycled Scraps To Museum-Quality Quilts
Well, first of all, it’s funny. Really. I don’t mean it’s filled with jokes, but Dmitry Orlov has a very humorous and biting style. This humorous approach serves two important purposes: 1) It makes the book enjoyable to read. 2) It helps the reader develop a certain healthy detachment from the subject matter.
How Can We Cut Our Energy Use for Commuting?
How Low-Carbon Can You Go: The Transportation Ranking
As international airfares soar, Americans stay in USA
I have in mind… the one example known to me of an American community of small family farmers who have not only survived but thrived during some very difficult years: I mean the Amish. I do not recommend, of course, that all farmers should become Amish, nor do I want to suggest that the Amish are perfect people or that their way of life is perfect. What I want to recommend are some Amish principles
Going forward into the peak oil decline years, strong local economies are all that stand between us and collapse… When people shift their money from trans-continental banks to local banks and credit unions, their money goes to work in their own neighborhood and strengthens the real, local economy where they live and work.
Crossing paths in “The Walkable City”
To save energy, cities darken street lights
Future solutions in 1930s house
San Francisco speaks
New York speaks
Sharon Astyk and hard times
Buy local and help Main Street
What to Do with Your Money During Tough Times
Middle Class Lifeboat: Careers and Life Choices for Staying Afloat (video and audio)
A Sympathetic Critique of Localisation by Peter North
When we live locally and strengthen our communities, we become stronger and better able to adapt to changes in the economy, climate, and energy availability. But we discuss much about how to go about this. So… how do you create change in your community? And how do you form a group of people who can tackle these community needs?
‘Car sleepers’ the new US homeless
More Americans on food stamps but say it’s not enough
Million more suffer fuel poverty
Food shortage catastrophe creeping up on the world
Dr. Abby Gold on Local Foods and Food Deserts in North Dakota and Minnesota (audio)
A School Garden Brings Learning to Life (video and audio)
