Housing & urban design – Sept 20
Ecocities emerging
For good neighbours, live in a quiet, car-free street
Rejoice! It’s time to reclaim the car park
Building Community
Food & agriculture – Sept 19
Instead of eating to diet, they’re eating to enjoy
US university campuses ban cafeteria trays in effort to go green
Australian farmers go green as petrol prices rise
Plants in forest emit aspirin chemical to deal with stress
An unlikely marriage: organic farmers and genetic engineering
Albert Bates on peak oil, relocalisation and why the hippys were right all along
What is so wonderful about Albert’s talk is the incredible story he tells about what can be achieved when people work together to make something happen. The story of hundreds of middle-class city hippy kids turning up on 1000 acres of poor farmland in Tennessee and having to work out how to grow food, build houses, make electricity and so on, is a great story for our times, showing what the combination of circumstance, passion and necessity can draw out of us.
HopeDance special on localization
A community newspaper/website for California’s Central Coast devotes its Sept-Oct issue to localization, with articles by Rob Hopkins, Julian Darley and local authors.
Going local – Sept 18
Boise group takes a “buy local” philosophy to another level
Aussie Web site urges moms to swap, not shop
Changing the world from home: the relocalization movement
The Gathering Inn: bed, breakfast, and beyond
Preparing for energy descent… A genuine, traditional village
Peak oil – Sept 18
Heinberg: Don’t panic; prepare!
John Michael Greer interview
CNBC documentary Sept 24 “The Hunt for Black Gold”
The next big disruption: peak oil (CRM)
Where are Libya’s oil exports headed?
New documentary on PO and suburbia: “Sprawling From Grace”
Peak oil “wrong,” says Schwartz
Food & agriculture – Sept 17
Food banks finding aid in bounty of backyard
Don’t put all your eggs in one food basket: experts
Scientist says ag costs continuing to rise
Future of Food director Garcia on ‘making soil sexy’
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 17
Reflections and visions
Parallel culture: The power of the consumer
Collapse of Wall Street precedes complete disintegration of system. About those “green jobs”
Survival of the nicest?
Collapse, for you, is likely to turn out to be a deeply personal experience. Furthermore, if you manage to survive it, chances are, you will be none to eager to divulge the details of how you made it, for they will not be edifying.
Survival 101: They don’t teach that in most colleges, and there’s a dilemma
Can a young person risk going to college these days?
If you’re 18 and college-bound, you may be skilled at computers and driving a car; know how to take the second derivative of a quadratic equation in calculus and have learned about electron orbits in chemistry; and may be able to discuss Shakespeare and “To Kill a Mockingbird” intelligently. But do you know how to kill and dress a chicken, or find and prepare wild edible plants in every season, or keep a goat healthy so it produces milk and meat?
Deep thought – Sept 11
To be an Earth Pilgrim
Miraculous survivors: Why they live while others die
Evil: It’s the new good!
Gauging 21st century environmentalism
“Plan C” Conference – survival strategies for the energy crisis – Oct 31-Nov 2
ROCHESTER, Michigan – On Halloween weekend several hundred community activists, sustainability educators, and lifestyle change advocates will convene here at a three-day conference to learn about ways to cut their household energy use and create resilient, sustainable communities that will be able to weather the coming economic and ecological storms.
