Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As fossil fuel depletion brings the industrial age to an end, the shift to a much lower level of energy use per capita will bring sweeping changes to every aspect of life. This essay, the first of a series, outlines what a low-energy future would mean for America and its people.
Jason Bradford is a PhD evolutionary biologist who studied the effects of climate change on cloud forests in the Andes under the auspices of the Missouri Botanical Garden and other institutions. But in 2004 he switched his focus from study to action by initiating a remarkable community organizing effort in his new home town of Willits, California, called Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL).
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What to do about the fact that when I get into a car I feel terrible? No, I do not suffer from motion sickness. This is a different kind of health issue. I am a recovering oil addict and I don’t have a support group.
Conscience Consumers and the New Austerity
Green Wave Surges onto Pop Culture’s Shores
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I’m a psychologist, I’m not a geologist, financial expert, political analyst or economist. Yet, my world was dramatically changed when I learned about Peak Oil and began to read about all the related issues.
UK ‘could suffer Katrina-style flooding’ /
Top climatologist warns global warming will hit Vermont hard /
Climate linked to bubonic plague increase / The hottest hoax around! (satire)
“Female, age 40, seeks wild, swinger male for procreation purposes, no commitments. Bonobo preferred but regular chimpanzee acceptable.”
– Lower fertility: a wise investment
– Roof rainwater-harvesting questions answered
– Ted Trainer; Spiritual significance of the Simpler Way
– “Your Money or Your Life”: Financial independence – for us common folk
– Start with the land
– Vermonters begin grappling with global peak oil
Fight or flight? / That’s enough oil – I’m going to make my own energy from now on / Meditations on deciding never to fly again / 3rd U.S. conference on peak oil and community solutions (Ohio Sept 22-24) /
APSO 5: Plan B – enabling relocalisation as a response to peak oil
The question for a future with ecological limits becomes: What shall we do with this powerful force of envy which has been awakened across the globe? How will people, both the rich and those aspiring to greater wealth, come to grips with limits which will undermine the consumer society within which that envy flourishes?
Overweight ‘top world’s hungry’ / Living ourselves to death / Eat, memory: family heirloom (Masumoto in NYT) / Meat eaters without the guilt / Texas 2006 ag losses worst single-year total ever / Rice prices may double by 2008
