Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“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.
The suburb-eating robot
Intent shapes environment, environment shapes life
Pedicabs a hit in Bellingham
Rob Hopkins on permaculture (interview)
Dmitry Orlov details the Collapse Party platform
Among the most challenging dimensions of the crisis of industrial civilization is the task of preserving its immense cultural heritage into a future where today’s technologies of communication and information storage will likely no longer be available. The emergence of cultural conservers — individuals who make the preservation of some part of our cultural heritage a personal mission — offers one option for dealing with this challenge.
Where industry once hummed, urban garden finds success
Your friend, the kitchen
High gas prices drive farmer to switch to mules
Gene Logsdon: Garden and small farm skills – hoemanship
“A good place to learn about peak oil, energy conservation, energy efficiency, global warming—get it all in one spot.” (U.S. Rep. Vern Ehlers) The conference is scheduled for Friday, May 30, through Sunday, June 1 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
We’re still sending out the cultural message “we’re different from the old agrarian roots” even though that’s become painfully obvious. The difficulty, of course, is that we may need to be rather more like the old people.
Soaring bills leave families just £50 a week
Saving for survival: New Zealand traditions
Astyk: Tinkerbelle economy starts to falter
What if gas cost $10 a gallon?
Clare Short: Birmingham should become a transition city
A family farm in the midst of suburbia
No wonder Iceland has the happiest people on earth (their secret revealed)
