Solutions & sustainability – May 16
Paul Hawken: Something Earth-changing is afoot among civil society
Nuncio says by living simply Catholics can help protect the earth
The ecology of work
Transition Towns In Italian
Waste Equals Food (video)
Building Community
Solutions & sustainability – May 14
8am: Shower. Save the water. Save the planet
Heinberg, Pollan, Kingsolver on PO and sustainable food
Mental health benefits of natural, low-cost ecotherapy
52 Weeks of Energy Cuts: #3 Make it yourself
Local efforts – May 13
Rotterdam wants to halve CO2-emissions
Brisbane: Back to the drawing board for PO and climate change
UK”s Brown to build five eco towns
Local Oregon experts discuss ways to stop climate change
The sustainable marriage
I’ve heard over and over about marriages struggling when partners have different ideas about the right thing to do about peak oil/sustainability/climate change. There are real and serious reasons that people are better off going into hard times with stable marriages and good support systems.
Web and media – May 11
“World Without Oil” – alternative reality game
Project Budburst: Springtime citizen science
Craigslist founder: People who run printing presses ‘screwed’
Videojug may just help save The world
Religion and peak oil: The next spirituality
Whatever religion or combination of religions rises to prominence as industrial society slides down the far side of Hubbert’s peak, the religious dimension will very likely play a massive role in the way today’s society’s adapt to tomorrow’s world of harsh limits and harsher choices.
Food preservation and democracy
Not only is independence worth striving for because it is good for us, our nation and our families, but also because someday we may depend on these skills and knowledge – and right now we might have a better country if we did this.
Cornucopian catechism: Notes from Pittsburgh
Trying to bring peak oil to the hometown. An example of the Semmelweis Reflex.
Solutions & sustainability – May 8
Moving New York City toward sustainable energy independence
Rob Hopkins (Transition Totnes) interview
Bill Rees (“eco-footprint”) on pushing the planet to its limit
Peak oil blindness
American society, as an autopoietic system, by its very energy-intense design, is inclined toward blindness of certain stimuli in its environment… It is well known that any large-scale organization as a system adjusts slowly to alterations in its environment. This suggests that there may be more promise in correcting our vision at the micro level.
Moving New York City toward sustainable energy independence
How creation of an Energy Shortage Plan will prepare New York City for energy price volatility and accelerate the long-term transition to energy sustainability. (50-page report)
The lighter side – May 7
World Naked Bike Ride coming in June
The (Fossil) Invaders
Fix growing energy crisis by growing waistlines
