Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Almost everyone in the peak oil and climate change movements is operating outside their fields. It is the disease of new fields and new realities – everyone is stretching themselves out of their natural range. And in many cases, I think that’s good.
A comprehensive acronym for the things that each of us can do to deal with Peak Oil.
Concise summary by a professor of mechanical engineering. Presented to the Mayor’s Green Team in Columbus, Ohio by members of the Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE).
Peak oil and solutions on NPR (Albert Bates interview)
City commissioner Adams sees web of streetcars for Portland
Smart Cities: rethinking the city centre in Brisbane
Cultural patterns, like political institutions, are likely to go through drastic changes as a society based on cheap abundant energy has to stand its assumptions on its head to deal with the twilight of fossil fuels. Can societies that have turned their cultural resources into a sideline of the marketing industry put them to more sustainable uses?
I got an email from a reader named Chris who asked me whether all of my emphasis on producing food and meeting our needs at home wasn’t antifeminist and pushing women back into the kitchen and out of the workforce, and thus, out of the public sphere.
BREAKING: New York City’s traffic fee plan wins state OK
What drives quality of life for seniors? Driving
Flying high on pond scum
Conservative MP: Small is inevitable after PO
Robert Putnam and social capital
Designed deterioration
Argentina: Where jobless run factories
Rob Hopkins on the transition movement
Oregon peak oil group
Sheri Liao, Global Village Beijing: “We have to change our lifestyle”
In trash-strewn Italy, a city cleans up
Green energy town proposal in Ireland
The Vatican to become world’s first carbon neutral sovereign state
Astyk: Pick up your hat (is it time yet?)
Choosing to live the good and sustainable life
Taking action in the face of collapse
Green future demands a radical shift in lifestyles for British
Lessons of history help the future
The World War II home front was the most important and broadly participatory green experiment in U.S. history.
For a year five experts ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods. (What our great- great- great- … grandparents can teach us about saving the world.)
