Solutions & sustainability – Apr 17
Cascadia: More than a dream
It’s all about distribution
Peak oil and “Little Miss Sunshine”
Kickstarting communications for a PO world
Welcome to Appropedia
Building Community
Is sustainability a drag?
Only when others see with their own eyes that those seeking sustainability are having enjoyable lives will the switch seem worth making. Just one shot of genuine cheerfulness, humor and even exuberance goes much further than a year’s worth of pious sermons.
Dysfunction – Apr 15
The new suburban poverty
Death in cyburbia
Unprovoked beatings of homeless soaring
Peak oil – Apr 13
Skrebowski on the race against peak oil
Alternate Reality Game: Surviving a World Without Oil
About “World Without Oil”
Time to face reality of finite oil supply
George Monbiot on Peak Oil and Transition Towns
“Over the past two or three years or so, I’ve become pretty sure that peak oil isn’t as imminent as I first thought. There are a couple of reasons for this.”
The Design Imperative
Our quality of life, both collectively and individually, is more dependent on how we use our energy than on how much of it we use. We can better influence our quality of life through improving technics than through increasing energy.
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 7
Go bright green WorldChanging
Hazel Henderson: Time for true market reform
Architecture: Green and greener
Energy use study shows power of social norms
Peak oil – Apr 7
A top Saudi bank expects fall in oil production
Shell, Total chief execs say ‘easy oil’ is gone
Carrboro (NC) gets it about PO
Book review of Peak Oil Prep
New documentary: Energy Crossroads
Pioneering Welsh town begins the transition to a life without oil
The people of Lampeter, a small community in the middle of rural Wales, gathered together earlier this week to mobilise for a new war effort. They decided to plan their “energy descent”.
Looking beyond – Apr 5
JM Greer: The shadow of our downfall
Sharon Astyk: World War II as metaphor
The limits of eco-localism: Scale, strategy, socialism
Intentional community pioneer Albert Bates on surviving peak oil
Bates’s new book delivers a concise summary of the problems of peak oil and climate change followed by chapter after chapter of ideas to prepare yourself and your family to live more self-sufficiently… I have not yet tried his recipe for grasshopper quesadillas.
Urban & housing – Apr 2
Squatter communities as model intentional communities
Ten things wrong with sprawl
Bright green buildings & dark green buildings
Reflective scientist sees a red roof and he wants to paint it white
