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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

10 First Steps for a Transition Town Initiative

December 15, 2020January 31, 2007 by Rob Hopkins

How to inspire and co-ordinate local engagement in peak oil and relocalisation planning.

Dysfunction – Jan 29

December 15, 2020January 29, 2007 by Staff

Kunstler on Martha Stewart: housing fetish
NYC becoming “the city that never walks”?
Scotland: Energy crisis as power cuts loom
Selling off Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Solutions & sustainability – Jan 23

December 15, 2020January 23, 2007 by Staff

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

Climate – Jan 22

December 15, 2020January 22, 2007 by Staff

The impressive Warwick McKibbin – a new kind of carbon trading?
Joseph Romm, author of ‘Hell and High Water’
The insurance climate change – the Market speaks

Solutions & sustainability – Jan 22

December 15, 2020January 22, 2007 by Staff

Where to go if you want to live to be 100
Newsweek: 7 ways to save the world

Could smart urban design keep people fit and trim?

Retrofitting For Passive Solar

December 15, 2020January 22, 2007 by Douglas J E Barnes

Elegant solutions to fossil fuel free home heating.