What should members of the peak oil movement call themselves?
If we don’t label ourselves, someone will do it for us.
Building Community
Coming out of the eco-closet
Being Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender in this culture isn’t easy. Yet many of you are finding your way in that. And as you take a stand, are you not finding empowerment and perhaps even excitement at times? I invite you to do the same regarding the state of the world.
Middle class angst: The politics of lemmings
The deepest fear in suburbia, never spoken aloud, is that when this epoch unravels, Suburbia’s citizens quite simply will not know how to survive… The real choice that Suburbia will face is one between fascism or self-sufficiency, which is a choice – as well – between spiritual death or spiritual renewal.
Managing waste: there's no such thing as away
Managing waste should be a major concern for all of us – I decided to find out more about how it’s done here in Bundaberg. Why not do some research and find out waste management differs in your area?
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
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
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.”
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 20
Magazine for a sustainable SE Australia
Bill McKibben interview
Managing winter energy bills
Green computing update: components
