Transport – June 16
Bill McKibben: Free public transit for all
When is a bike not a bike? When it’s electric
The threat to the car
Building Community
Community – June 16
Sandpoint becomes 2nd Transition Town in U.S.
Portland: Step program for gasoholics (Peak Oil taskforce no longer’apocalyptic’)
To hell with debate, what can the simple folk do?
38 pounds lighter, all from recycling
Community Guide to Environmental Health: comprehensive book, downloadable from Hesperian
Talking peak oil in the Heartland
Report on the recent peak oil conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Coping with the peak – June 5
Pittsburgh: When the oil runs out
Mark Morford:
Stay home, read, have sex
Robert Reich: We need public transportation but can’t get it
Black Commentator: Taking the train to a clean environment, a sustainable economy & jobs
Religion and the survival of culture
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?
Solutions & sustainability – June 3
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
A doomer’s garden
Getting through a crash will take more than tomatoes and Mason jars.
Peak oil parenting … back to the future style.
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.
Deep thought – June 1
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?
Michigan peak oil conference begins today
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.
Solutions – May 29
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
Adopting the stance of Pooh
“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?
