Solutions & sustainability – June 13
Transition Towns on BBC’s “You and Yours”
No Impact Man plugs “Riot for Austerity”
Helping planners set a context for local emission reduction targets
Intel and Google’s energy drive
Building Community
Al Gore stole my job
Before Al Gore made global warming a political movement, I had a job to do and a sense of purpose. Fight global warming, save the planet. Now, were I to take up the topic, I would be merely redundant. There is a disorienting sense that the movement is no longer on my turf, that it has been handed over to bigger entities.
The revolution will not be blogged, either
We have spent several centuries asking, “Can we do it?” And often enough the answer was a resounding, “Yes we can!” But instead, what we need to ask is this – Should we do it?
Stay in NYC?
Reaction to the recent sustainability plan for New York City: “I expected to see steps that ask people to give more of themselves than their money. Why weren’t people encouraged to educate themselves about energy? Learn where it comes from. Don’t blindly accept proposals offered by government, corporations, or so-called experts.”
England swings – June 6
Transition Culture moving ahead in UK
London goes carbon crazy
Free electricity monitor
Blair: I can persuade Bush on climate change
The blogs are alive – June 6
The present is pregnant with the future
Consumerism is dead- long live self-sufficiency!
Movie review: What a Way to Go (Life at the End of Empire)
Recreating “An Inconvenient Truth”s Manhattan flooding in Google Earth
Solutions & sustainability – June 5
Transition Conference in UK: “feels historic”
What you can do about Peak Oil
Citizen media
The future of philanthropy: Innovation, networks, thought leaders and the fringe
On Robert S. McElvaine’s “The Great Depression”
“This book reveals very poignantly what has been lost in American culture.”
Road to nowhere?
Below are comments I presented before my local transportation planning agency concerning its 2030 plan [in which I question the assumption that liquid fuels will remain abundant and cheap]. I hope these comments will provide some ideas for those who want to comment on plans in their own locales.
Depletion, racism and paving the road to hell
A while back a gentleman named Harvey Winston sent me an email, trying to explain why it is that the peak oil and climate change movements are as lily white as they are.
Solutions & sustainability – May 31
Local government responses to peak oil
Studies: If it feels good to be good, it might be only natural
Vatican goes green with solar roofs
Chinese activist praises Oregon’s green ways
Economist Tom Greco on reinventing money
‘Deep Economy’: ideas for a better world
Manufactured landscapes
Deep thinking – May 30
Interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon
The hard facts about parabolic spikes
[More] or (Less)
Because we’re worth it
Toxic Culture USA
John Michael Greer: Future fiction
