Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The power of concentrated money – capital as we usually call it – is clearly enormous. Some things have to be done with collected resources if you want civilisation to continue, especially things to do with transport. But then there is the fact that if someone is doing it (using concentrated resources) and you are not, you will most likely be pushed out of the game.
New system could help avert collapse of fisheries
Peak climate (audio) Part 1 is Dr. Peter Ward on past extinctions & violent climate change, Part 2 is Julian Darley, founder of the Post Carbon Institute, on how to live past the energy crisis
Isle of plenty
NY State Senator Klein to meet with No Impact Man about making NYC streets livable
A Speech for the Next President
Self-doubts paralyze activists
Ecocities emerging
For good neighbours, live in a quiet, car-free street
Rejoice! It’s time to reclaim the car park
These are the slides and text for a presentation given at the ASPO-USA conference September 21-23.
In these ten minutes, I’d like to provide a context for the discussion. I’d like to paint a broadbrush picture of where we were, and where we are going. It will be from the viewpoint of someone inside the movement looking out.
From the grassroots, rather than from the media.
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
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.
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.
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
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 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’
Reflections and visions
Parallel culture: The power of the consumer
Collapse of Wall Street precedes complete disintegration of system. About those “green jobs”
