Digging dollars: make-work, agriculture and empire
If, all of a sudden your work was to disappear from the planet – no one was doing it – how much would anyone really suffer?
Building Community
Food & agriculture – May 28
Building a strong local food system via the 100 mile diet challenge
Astyk: reduce energy consumption- eat seasonally
BC conference: Changing ecologies of food and agriculture
Germany: Biofuel boom jacks up price of beer
From the blogs – May 26
how i became a peak oiler
To all the geeks, gamers, and non-attention payers
Denial
Awakening to the threat of excessive material consumption
Relocalization: A strategic response to peak oil and climate change
The case for relocalization will be made in the context of responding sensibly to two problems facing societies right now: climate change and peak oil and gas. Relocalization advocates rebuilding more balanced local economies that emphasize securing basic needs.
Climate change despair and empowerment
“People are much more knowledgeable and ready to get involved. People are saying we are not here to discuss, we are here to take action.” (Interview with Australian climate change and rainforest protection activist Ruth Rosenhek.)
Food & agriculture – May 24
Barbara Kingsolver: Eating locally and debunking the red-blue divide
Kingolver talk (video)
How green is your garden? Not as much as you might think.
Solutions & sustainability – May 24
Richard Douthwaite on complementary money systems
Julian Darley on economics, the money system and capitalism
No efficiency without controls
McKinsey report: Invest in existing technologies to lower energy demand growth
HopeDance special on “LOCAL”
Heinberg: Talking ourselves to extinction
New transcripts and translations on GPM
Tilling our own soil: Preparing a surge capacity for food
The system of getting nearly all our food from industrial agriculture located elsewhere works as long as petrochemicals are cheap. If the world reaches the “peak” of petroleum (and later of natural gas) production, the price of food would most certainly increase If we take this contingency of expensive food seriously, what is to be done?
Relocalization – May 18
Julian Darley on relocalization and energy use
Relocalizing Eugene
Dysfunction – May 18
Pivotal moment in the green scare
Dmitry Orlov: Civilization sabotages itself
Ten lessons from Katrina on our [in]ability to cope with crises
Solutions & sustainability – May 18
The advantages of living off the grid
Sharon Astyk: The juggler’s lament, ecological collapse and making change
CSM: For American consumers, how much is enough?
Global warming – The 10 most important things you can do
Cities – May 16
Ignore car fee critics, London mayor tells NYC
16 cities to go green under Clinton plan
Lester Brown: Designing cities for people rather than cars
Economist special on cities
