Family values – Nov 29
Ralph Nader: The lost art of family traditions
Removing our kids from the front lines of climate change
Young people reading a lot less
Building Community
Peak oil activists gather, plan for hard times, will lead the way
Former professor and author David Korten told close to 300 applauding peak oil activists that they are not a fringe minority but the leading edge of a super-majority “and it’s time we start acting like it.” Korten issued his rallying call in October at the “Fourth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions” in Yellow Springs Ohio last October.
Where the wild things are
For the past four years, Adam Grubb has been acquainting himself with the medicinal and nutritional qualities of plants that thrive on neglect, often in poor soils, on marginal land. He says his interest in weeds sprang from his work as founding editor of Energy Bulletin.
Adaptive responses to peak oil
Many of the proposals made so far to deal with the crisis of industrial society have centered on massive programs with huge price tags and few options in case of failure. A look at more flexible approaches may be in order.
Food & agriculture – Nov 21
Our oil-based food system will run out of gas
A cause to diet for: local Scottish food
How chocolate can save the planet
China inflation up on food costs
Win-win situations? Don’t trust them, but…
Two can live as cheaply – Nov 21
Can shrunken families be reflated?
Sharon Astyk: Getting more butts in your house
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 20
Magazine for a sustainable SE Australia
Bill McKibben interview
Managing winter energy bills
Green computing update: components
Are we green yet?
Couldn’t this Green culture that we are nurturing here in the San Francisco Bay Area become part of our cultural pride and identity, that we then spread to the entire state of California? … Perhaps the Chronicle was not far off in using the headline “heartbreaking” about the Bay oil spill. As one activist pointed out, “It is in the breaking of the heart that we truly discover what it is we feel compelled to do.”
Cities – Nov 18
Cars out as London mayor clears way for Paris-style plage and cycle boulevards
City’s slicker: density means less impact
Peak oil – Nov 18
Who’s talking about peak oil (quotes)
How should I prepare for life without oil?
Simmons and others in the media
The familiarity of an idea
Cloth toilet paper and peak oil… There are some ideas you run into once and immediately say “Why didn’t I think of that” and implement it in your own life, but there are many other things where the first time you confront an idea, you can’t do much more than file it away as a weird factoid. Without context and familiarity, it is just too hard and too strange.
Economic and planetary collapse: Is it a therapeutic issue?
If we call those pessimistic about the future “Doomers,” what do we call those who are blindly and enthusiastically optimistic? We might call such optimism a “Panglossian Disorder” and the Peak Shrink suggest that it is a tough, culturally ubiquitous disorder to treat.
