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The system of getting nearly all our food from industrial agriculture located elsewhere works as long as petrochemicals are cheap. If the world reaches the “peak” of petroleum (and later of natural gas) production, the price of food would most certainly increase If we take this contingency of expensive food seriously, what is to be done?
Julian Darley on relocalization and energy use
Relocalizing Eugene
Pivotal moment in the green scare
Dmitry Orlov: Civilization sabotages itself
Ten lessons from Katrina on our [in]ability to cope with crises
The advantages of living off the grid
Sharon Astyk: The juggler’s lament, ecological collapse and making change
CSM: For American consumers, how much is enough?
Global warming – The 10 most important things you can do
Ignore car fee critics, London mayor tells NYC
16 cities to go green under Clinton plan
Lester Brown: Designing cities for people rather than cars
Economist special on cities
Paul Hawken: Something Earth-changing is afoot among civil society
Nuncio says by living simply Catholics can help protect the earth
The ecology of work
Transition Towns In Italian
Waste Equals Food (video)
8am: Shower. Save the water. Save the planet
Heinberg, Pollan, Kingsolver on PO and sustainable food
Mental health benefits of natural, low-cost ecotherapy
52 Weeks of Energy Cuts: #3 Make it yourself
Rotterdam wants to halve CO2-emissions
Brisbane: Back to the drawing board for PO and climate change
UK”s Brown to build five eco towns
Local Oregon experts discuss ways to stop climate change
“World Without Oil” – alternative reality game
Project Budburst: Springtime citizen science
Craigslist founder: People who run printing presses ‘screwed’
Videojug may just help save The world
I’ve heard over and over about marriages struggling when partners have different ideas about the right thing to do about peak oil/sustainability/climate change. There are real and serious reasons that people are better off going into hard times with stable marriages and good support systems.
Whatever religion or combination of religions rises to prominence as industrial society slides down the far side of Hubbert’s peak, the religious dimension will very likely play a massive role in the way today’s society’s adapt to tomorrow’s world of harsh limits and harsher choices.
Not only is independence worth striving for because it is good for us, our nation and our families, but also because someday we may depend on these skills and knowledge – and right now we might have a better country if we did this.
