Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Theme – “Plan C: Individual and Community Survival Strategies for the Energy Crisis” Conference to be held at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. Speakers include Dmitry Orlov, John Michael Greer, and Richard Heinberg.
By the time we were finished [with the interview], I felt that I’d lent myself to a subject about something I really know very little about – that is, preparing for a hypothetical crisis that may come someday. What I actually am starting (and I’m still just starting) to know something about is living in such a way that I’m somewhat insulated (not perfectly) from a whole host of scenarios.
Anti-regulation aide to Cheney is up for energy post
Why oil prices continue to fluctuate
Petrol pump pilgrims keep faith
Renewed push for uranium mining in West
Bicycle inspiration. The following photos were taken at train stations around the world. Also: “If You Have Biker’s Block.”
Buying into ‘organic,’ ‘natural,’ ‘local’
Slow Food Nation celebrates the good, clean and fair
Homer-Dixon: Everything is not peachy (food self-sufficiency)
What if we all got money-smart?
Bumps on the road to a greener city
San Francisco peak oil town hall meeting: What’s happening with oil? (audio)
Fred’s footprint: the best solution to climate change
Ex-pat Steve holidays in England, only to find signs of the effects of peak oil everywhere. Over the period of two weeks a number of newspaper articles confirm that the perfect post-peak storm is brewing in this land, once a proud net exporter of oil.
Humankind has control issues, and they’re about to get a lot worse.
My friends and I see this shift as a good thing – youth leading the way toward decisions that could result in more livable communities, better health, lower emissions and less fossil fuel dependency.
Australia: Rising costs fuel economic stress
What our cities could be
Smart Growth: The good news about high gas prices
They took away all the cars in NYC – Summer Streets 2008
Atrios: Rules for urban design
The waste-pickers of Delhi
Junk raft raises awareness of plastics despite adversity, challenges
Recyclers are cashing in on the fortune in your bin
Largest water solar heater with PET bottles installed in Parana, Brazil
A tall, cool drink of … sewage?
Living simply by sharing space
Going vintage is going green
Bikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland: what we have in common
Go-getter gets governments going on sustainability
Cycling with the wind behind you (electric bikes in NL)
