Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Sept 9
-Oil Spin
-Oil still has us over a barrel
-Maribynong Peak Oil Contingency Plan
Education
Transition dialogue – Sept 9
-The Transition Towns Movement; its huge significance and a friendly criticism
-Responding to Ted Trainer’s Friendly Criticism of Transition
Deconstructing Dinner: The Local Grain Revolution X (Retail Supported Agriculture? / Sprouting Grain)
What is Retail Supported Agriculture? As far as the North American local food movement is concerned, it’s not a concept that has yet been coined in any notable way. The Kootenay Grain CSA (community supported agriculture) project located in the Kootenay region of British Columbia is now changing that.
When the Great Correction Comes
Former oil and gas analyst Jan Lundberg says declining energy and climate ends globalization. It’s time to launch the lifeboats of localization and sustainable energy. Why big government can’t fix it — and why do we need big government at all? Lundberg sees an inevitable rebuild from his website culturechange.org.
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 4
-How on Earth Can We Feed 8 Billion People?
-Solar Power from Space: Moving Beyond Science Fiction
-Johnson announces awards for ‘low carbon zones’
-The Cruel Cost of Clunkers
-How to Grow Democracy
-Bike-o-rama: A Roundup of the Best in New Bikes, Bike Infrastructure, Blogs, Books and More
Web & media – Sept 7
-The Price of Truth
-Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster
-Return To Asia
Climate & environment – Sept 3
-German Scientists Call for ‘World Climate Bank’
-Let’s Just Rejigger the Globe To Cool It Off
-Global warming, California, and wildfires
-Prescott: cutting emissions by 80% will not be enough
“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire
This text describes the presentation that I gave at the “Peak Summit” in Alcatraz (Italy) on June 27, 2009… It is not a transcription, but something that I wrote from memory, mostly in a single stretch, while I had it still fresh in my mind. The result is that my 40 minutes talk became a text of more than 10,000 words, much longer than a typical internet document (but still less than Gibbon’s six volumes on the same subject!)
Real People, Real Preparation Part 4, with Sarah Edwards
From the STTP website: In the next few months, Truth to Power will be featuring interviews with individuals who are consciously transitioning to a post-carbon lifestyle…Everyone’s story of preparation is different; there is no one-size-fits-all model. This series of interviews with real people preparing for collapse will honor the uniqueness of those individuals and the methods of preparation that serve them in their particular situations.
UK – Sept 2
-Man-made eruptions – ‘Plan B’ in the battle for the planet
-We’re pumping out CO2 to the point of no return. It’s time to alter course
-Climate Camp set up in the footsteps of the Peasants’ Revolt
Deep thought – Sept 1
-In control? Think again. Our ideas of brain and human nature are myths
-Brain changes may have led to Stone Age tools
-How cooking makes you a man
-Cogito ergo sum, baby
Back to school
On my lap, I’ve got a set of school books that date from the 1850s to the 1890s. They belonged to various of my father’s family – my great-uncle, George Hume, who died long before I was born and studied Eaton’s Common School Arithmetic in Amesbury, MA in the late 19th century, not 20 miles from where I would go to school 100 years later.
