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
Building Community
Housing & urban design – July 2
Canada: Today’s suburbs, tomorrow’s slums?
Rob Hopkins Film Review: Garbage Warrior
Elephant in the Drop-Off Zone
Don’t mourn – July 2
Will Obama inspire a new generation of organizers?
Real change happens off-line
Grassroots lobbying: use ideas, not one-click campaigns
Printable flyers for use in community organizing
What happens when the reality of ‘No’ becomes clear to middle class America?
What might happen when you take a society that is used to ‘Yes’ and tell it ‘No’ ?
Food & agriculture – July 1
Hoarding nations drive food costs ever higher
Slow Food Nation comes to San Francisco
Home-grown veg across UK ruined by toxic fertiliser
The Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Green Project
Interview with ‘The Future of Food’ director Deborah Koons Garcia
Rhizome platform design
Can we get away from the hierarchal model of centralized manufacture and distribution, and replace it with a world where design emerges from open-source collaboration and is manufactured at the point of use by 3-D printers and community manufacturing centers?
Community solutions – June 30
‘Peak oil’ theory gains local converts in Grand Rapids
Update on Michigan peak oil conference
‘The Archers’ and self-sufficient community
Transition towns taking control of their future
Moving beyond oil in Lawrence, Kansas
Review: Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil by Zachary Nowak
We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.
Peak oil strategies – June 30
Crash course- preparing for peak oil (book review)
Fixing peak oil is easy
Retreat location and avoiding the golden horde
No more Ms. Nice Girl
What’s a silver-streaked lady ecology writer to do? Be nice, be friendly, avoid the troubling topics, read the classics, don’t feel morally obliged to infect others with a perfectly warranted alarm and pessimism. Who am I to tell 10,000 ostensibly complacent neighbors that the ship is going down … especially at the height of summer, when the days are so fine and fair?
WALL*E – a push-button fable (movie review)
The idea that you can suddenly change the course of history by pushing a big green button is itself a very pointed dig at our lack of grasp of the challenges we face and what sustainability will really entail.
Is electricity really the lifeblood of civilization?
We are currently in a deep and horrible disaster, being visited on the world’s poorest and the tentacles are gradually crawling up the anchor to take down the rest of the ship. But I also think that there is a good deal of reason for hope – we have vast capacities, vast resources and vast imagination.
