Solutions & sustainability – Feb 11
In Niger, trees and crops turn back the desert
A call for a green Enlightenment
Portland stares down global warming
Down and dirty: earthen floors
Building Community
Climate activism – Feb 9
After the breakthrough: what do we do now?
World’s churches rally to cause
Book review: George Monbiot’s Heat
Conspiracy of silence on climate change
Peak oil – Feb 9
Interview: San Francisco peak oil resolution
Film review ‘A Crude Awakening-the Oil Crash’
Talk to the Soil Association Conference
ASPO newsletter for February
News discussion: Energy Bulletin
Communications – Feb 8
Moving From Bloggers To Communities
In the spirit of Nero
Al Gore on the media
Hackers take down Internet servers
Dysfunction – Feb 8
As Inflation Soars, Zimbabwe Economy Plunges
Irans nuclear plans in chaos
Uganda’s energy crisis continues
Learning From Chaco: P2P Risk Networks?
Housing & urban design – Feb 7
The ubiquitous sprawls of America
Exurbs hardest hit in recent housing slump
Scholars to consider the shrinking of cities
The agenda restated
Quit wishing and start doing. The best way to feel hopeful about the future is to get off your ass and demonstrate to yourself that you are a capable, competent individual resolutely able to face new circumstances.
One of Kunstler’s best. -Ed
Peter Russell on life after oil, change and consciousness.
We’re going to be in completely new situations which we’ve never encountered before and the ways of the past are not really appropriate.
Five axioms of sustainability
If leaders do not begin to abide by these axioms, society as a whole, or some aspects of it, will assuredly collapse.
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 4
Using Visioning as a Powerful Protest Tool
Time to Get Serious About Post Carbon Training
Petition – Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking
Place in 2007
Home economics, sustainability and the “mommy wars”
We have created not only physical dependencies on cheap energy, but psychological ones, so that no matter how much harm our dependencies do, we now fear to live any other way.
Young professionals and peak oil
Young Professionals are vulnerable to the shocks that Peak Oil will bring to our society, but we are also well equipped to tackle energy descent, perhaps more realistically than others who simplistically advocate alternative fuels and vague technological fixes.
