Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In the past, religious movements have often played a central role in transmitting the heritage of a dying civilization to its successors. With the onset of decline into a deindustrial dark age arguably beginning around us, what are the prospects that this pattern might repeat?
As fuel becomes precipitously expensive, two car families are likely to become one car families. Most people would probably consider this a bad thing but let’s for a moment look at how it might change our lives for the better.
Juneau’s lesson from energy crisis: Communities should unite
It’s the efficiency, stupid: New York Times gets it right this time”
Data centers waste up to 90% of electricity
Elder care – green, high-tech and ‘old-fashioned extended family ties’
Instruments of Amplification: homemade radio parts
Getting through a crash will take more than tomatoes and Mason jars.
Less is more: decreasing the number of scientific conferences to promote economic degrowth
Visual images of consumerism statistics
John Papworth on Transition Towns
Do schools kill creativity?
The conference begins with an introduction by U.S. Congressional Peak Oil Caucus member Vern Ehlers and a keynote by Dr. David Goodstein, author of Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil.
Monty Don: gardeners of the world must unite
Incentives for farmers to grow organic in Australia
Advice to teens and parents about peak oil
Sustainable Bellingham – grassroots organizing is key
“Things” are certainly unfolding quickly now — the mainstream is filled with energy news, rising costs of food, job losses. Some of us are moving beyond the “peak oil education” stage to “hey, there are some things we can do!” moments with the newly awakened. It’s a critical time to be awake, active, and available. This is what we anticipated, and is what we’ve been preparing for.
So why doesn’t it feel good?
Gordon Brown: The oil crisis is a global problem requiring global solutions
We’re not yet at Hubbert’s peak – call it instead ‘de facto peak oil’
California mayor: How will local governments respond to large increases in energy bills?
Russia worried as oil production slides
New: Immer neue Preisschocks (+ Fatih Birol interview in German)
If the end of industrial society proves to be a slow decline rather than a sudden catastrophe, we stand to lose more of today’s cultural heritage and knowledge base, not less. What can be done in the face of so challenging a future?
It’s the meat-eating, stupid
Sowing the seeds of a global revolution (guerilla gardenering)
Sustainable communities (otherwise – “dead doors that lead to nowhere”)
Transition Town sprouts in Peterborough, Ontario
This past week I had the opportunity to spend a day with Amish relatives. This visit was colored by my acute awareness of civilization’s collapse and the ramifications of that reality for most of us.
