Solutions & sustainability – Dec 10
How many farmers do we need to change the world?
McKibben On reforming our supersized society
Slow clothing
Building Community
Solstice 2100: Q&A
Further explorations in the post-peak scenario presented last week in “Solstice 2100,” the second of three snapshots of life in deindustrial America.
The 12 Step Programme for Breaking Oil Dependency – a useful tool for powerdown groups
“My 12 step programme for reducing my oil dependency. In order to make my life less reliant on the unreliable, I pledge to myself to strive towards the following 12 goals over the next 6 months…”
The origins of peak oil doomerism
My point is not that Peak Oil doomerism is wrong. We face enormous crises and we have the tools to end civilization. But remember, as you feel yourself drawn to the apocalyptic story, that it is the natural place to go in uncertain and dangerous times. We are culturally programmed to do it.
Jeff Vail’s “A Theory of Power”
Rhizome-based structures need to replace hierarchical ones, Vail argues, in all areas of our society — social, political, economic, educational etc. to entrench the power and sustainability of self-sufficient communities and render them invulnerable to re-expropriation of that power by hierarchies.
Post-peak pessimism: Looking for new tools
Rob Hopkins of Transition Culture recently asked, could pervasive peak oil pessimism be the result of men realizing we are ill-equipped to handle what is coming? The answer is yes. We need new skills and new tools.
Peak oil – Dec 4
Ask Umbra: good to the last drop
TOD debate on the timing of peak oil
PayPal’s Thiel bets big on peak oil
‘Mad Max’ co-author on peak oil
Portland group plans for peak oil
Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
My talk tonight is about the lack of collapse-preparedness here in the United States. I will compare it with the situation in the Soviet Union, prior to its collapse.I watched the Soviet Union collapse, and I have tried to put my observations into a concise message. I will leave it up to you to decide just how urgent a message it is.
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 2
Energy Descent Plans and the Oil Depletion Protocol
Six ways to shrink that heating bill
Vancouver Energy Farm update
How to build intelligent suburbs
Ecotopia – a photographic exhibit
FEASTA expand website
Post Carbon Newsletter – a half million visitors
Transport – Dec 1
John Urry on Social Networks
Transport planners asleep at the wheel
Traffic jams, and the rain in Spain
Please fasten your seatbelt and cross your legs…
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 30
Travis Bradford: the revolution will be solarized
Not-so-glamorous conservation works best
Third-World laptop for $150
Stan
Goff eschews Marxism, looks to local communities
What we can do about passing the energy tipping point
Building a Resilient and Equitable Bay Area
In the face of manufacturing job losses, the looming peak oil crisis, and greater economic insecurity we believe there is over-whelming public support for all nine Bay Area counties and their cities to work together with business and community leaders to devise and implement an economic localization strategy through public governance and business sector initiatives.
