Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
How to inspire and co-ordinate local engagement in peak oil and relocalisation planning.
As peak oil and other aspects of the predicament of industrial society begin pushing it down the slope toward catabolic collapse, sorting out what can be saved from what must be jettisoned will become a crucial task. Thinking about the options now could give us a head start.
Why some ideas stick and others don’t
Viridian Greens: “We are winning!”
Hand-made vacation
U.S. consumers, companies feeling green
The electric wheel- breakthrough in car efficiency
The soul of a pedicab chauffeur
Get ready, tram haters: Locals want more
Portland’s classy new tram
10 vanishing wonders – fly to see them?
The UK’s Soil Association conference, titled “One Planet Agriculture: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future,” aimed to kick-start the discussion on what practical measures farmers, consumers and local communities can take to become less energy reliant. The conference was the most over-subscribed in its history.
For decades, many prophets’ words have been lost in the winds of exuberant growth of human presence in this biosphere. But now, the reality of the finite energy and material resources may finally be creeping into the public consciousness. (Sermon)
Helplessness:
“the exaggerated feeling of lack of control, of enormous danger, of inability to respond to danger, that comes from repeated exposure to actual or apparent threats.”
Rx:
1) get our facts straight.
2) become less helpless
3) learn how the world really works
There are many points of convergence between this newly identified brand of crunchy (slang for counter-cultural) conservative creature and the eco-hippie crunchy liberal. (Book review)
Astyk: Living off the waste of industrial society
Hopkins: Honour the elders
Orlov: The despotism of the image
The straight line is the road to hell
Programs let homes produce green power
Sharon Astyk is one of us in the peak oil movement who advocates relocalisation and self sufficiency. Is this vision based on a romantic notion?
Soil Association director Patrick Holden in interview says, “I believe that localism and cellular, from the ground up activity will be the defining impulse of 21st century agriculture.”
