Community Solutions – July 10
Greensboro urged to prepare for oil crisis
A British town’s attempt to kick the oil habit
Vancouver debates zero waste
Building Community
Web – July 10
Has the internet killed the joys of sitting down with a good book?
Protect the web, says Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Getting ‘wiki’ with it?
Climate & Environment – July 10
A deal on climate change – but then the backlash
The art of embarrassment: bring back the dunce’s cap?
Water pollution, supply issues top environmental concern in China (video and transcript)
Get ready for the post-SUV world!
SUVs and big pickups are waddling off into the sunset, leaving Americans with no more excuses for the nation’s profligate oil use.
Peak toil
Peak toil: A fable of the future?
It’s happening in Belgium, Scotland, and Spain, in India, South Korea, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Italy, Portugal, Greece, France…
What might we expect from the average working-class American, as economics in this country continue to worsen? Will they organize in labor unions or protest as isolated individuals expressing their individual sense of hopelessness and despair? Will it be sparked by some “organized” movement, or from some shift in their internal emotional reality? Frank Lee gives his future fantasy version of what he sees could be coming, and folks, it isn’t pretty…Kathy McMahon
Solutions & sustainability – July 8
Should you dress down to beat the heat?
Over 1,000 participants in Biofuel Cities European Partnership
Energy guru offers Exmouth self-sufficiency blueprint
Solutions & sustainability – July 7
A how-to book for everything from water filters to fly traps
8 principles for successful rainwater harvesting
Feasta seminar talks online
A walk around Totnes with permaculturalist Patrick Whitefield
Les mycorhizes: La nouvelle révolution verte
Canadian clean energy training portal launches
Effects – July 5
World must brace for oil beyond $150
As gas prices soar, elderly face cuts in aid
Korea: High crude costs make industries mull surrender (petrochemical, travel, auto)
Solutions & sustainability – July 4
Profile of Bill McKibben
Interview with Amory Lovins
Megan Quinn Bachman: Surviving peak oil, thriving in community
Climate dialogue groups in Seattle
What lifestyles without oil?
At the Tällberg Forum in Tällberg, Dalarna, Sweden, Chief Jake Swamp from the Akwesasne Mohawk Tribe and I had a conversation about “What lifestyles without oil?”.
Solutions & sustainability – July 3
‘Free sharing’ sites expand on Internet
Our ‘insanely cheap’ chest refrigerator
Stone ground goodness (learning to be a miller)
Taking care of yourself and medical survival
Transition town gets moving in Bay of Islands, NZ
Crisis & collapse – July 3
New book from John Michael Greer: The Long Descent
A Crash course in burning bridges (Zachary Nowak interview)
Alex Steffen: Resilient community
The end Of civilization
