Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As an unusually long and sweltering heat wave enveloped the traditionally mild San Francisco Bay Area, power outages knocked out air conditioning, and gas prices under $3.00 a gallon seemed like leisure suits or vinyl LPs, relics of a long forgotten era, those who have been warning of the consequences of global warming and the eventual decline of a fossil fuel-based life felt an awkward sense of vindication.
Even if peak oil production turns out to be decades away, the contributions of the peak oil movement are already manifold. The people involved are forcing a re-evaluation not only of the idea of energy and its sources, but of the very way in which we live
The logic of sufficiency / Given enough minds – bridging the ingenuity gap / Something exciting is happening in Britain’s suburbs / So big and healthy Grandpa wouldn’t even know you
Apocalypse no! An Indigenist perspective / Converging ecological crises: are we up to the challenges? / Signs of the times
Artists, we need you. We need your vision and your courage to tell the truth. We’ve got plenty of “analysis,” and enough punditry to last us forever. What we lack are the gut-wrenching stories that put a human face on the collapse that is upon us.
The world is quickly ramping-up toward a full awareness of the various fundamental crises affecting our way of life. How can we move beyond disillusionment and anxiety to embrace the life-changes that are being demanded of us?
Pro sports are a luxury we can no longer afford in a world facing dangerous climate change and where $75 a barrel oil is already straining the budgets of most Third World countries and threatening their development future.
Our wasteful ways will finish us off / William A. McDonough talk: Designing the next industrial revolution / Welcome to “braided” time /
David Korten and Joanna Macy: the great turning – from empire to earth community
Our country can grow in a more self-reliant manner and without further damage to the environment. We will be offering products and services that are unique and are better geared to serving the needs of the world’s future. The market for these environmentally friendly products and services will go beyond the imagination once they are marketed to the mainstream population. China’s peaceful rise will be utterly credible, and it will be wholeheartedly welcomed by the world.
Soil Association – Peak Oil Appeal /
Feeding the Deindustrial Future /
Designing Ecological & Caring Futures (Audio) /
Americans Going Green /
G.E.’s Green Gamble /
Vanuatu ranked as happiest place
If you really want to understand the danger that Peak Oil represents, don’t think about your investment portfolio. Think about what happens when these millions of flat broke, disenfranchised, exhausted fellow citizens finally catch on that the dream has become a lie and an absurdity.
Meg Wheatley – the power of chaos /
We must preserve the earth’s dwindling resources for my 5 children / Think you would be happier if you were richer? Think again / Bogota’s mayor’s happy ‘war on cars’ /
“Made to Break” reveals the roots of our throwaway culture / High tech trash: Elizabeth Grossman
