Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Review: The Transition Handbook
Implementing rhizome at the personal level
Sustainable Settings in Colorado leaves for greener pastures
Interfaith forum on environment in N Carolina
Mining exec an activist himself
There is an overwhelming need for non-technological responses to our global environmental crisis.
The novel presents a fictional world that is at once idyllic and post-apocalyptic, reassuring and frightening.
Clothing (partially) made in Vermont
Megan Quinn Bachman interview
WorldChanging: How are you preparing to survive?
A pep talk might take the tack of saying if only we pull together, our problems will vanish and the world will be a marvelous place in short order. But the people to whom I’m directing my remarks won’t buy that line of persuasion for a second.
The publication of the much anticipated Transition Handbook marks the latest landmark in what has become the fastest growing environmental movement since CND in the 1960s: the phenomenon that is sweeping the UK, the Transition Towns movement.
Bates and Orlov interview
Lovelock: ‘Enjoy life while you can’
An alternative to hierarchy: rhizome theory
Upsides of being down (depression)
A relocalized society and economy is a pragmatic way to prepare for, to survive from, or to rebuild after whatever comes down — to counteract the rising price of energy and to help diminish carbon emissions. (In-depth interview with writer and activist Dan Armstrong, part 2)
‘Eco-awakening’ affects lifestyle choices
Relocalization Network newsletter
Peak Moment TV newsletter
Peak energy tour coming to UK in 2008
The book opens with a “recipe” for collapse soup and notes that the United States has combined all of the ingredients. While Re-Inventing Collapse isn’t a fluffy, feel-good novel, it is tempered with delicious outbursts of Dmitry’s mischievous humor.
Earthships and the Garbage Warrior
Radiant City: Canadian documentary on sprawl
Government seeks UK’s first ‘cycling city’
What would be required to start neighborhood groups that might engage people within our existing communities, and enable those communities to start preparing for climate change and peak oil?
