Solutions & sustainability – Apr 7
Go bright green WorldChanging
Hazel Henderson: Time for true market reform
Architecture: Green and greener
Energy use study shows power of social norms
Act: Inspiration
Pioneering Welsh town begins the transition to a life without oil
The people of Lampeter, a small community in the middle of rural Wales, gathered together earlier this week to mobilise for a new war effort. They decided to plan their “energy descent”.
Looking beyond – Apr 5
JM Greer: The shadow of our downfall
Sharon Astyk: World War II as metaphor
The limits of eco-localism: Scale, strategy, socialism
Intentional community pioneer Albert Bates on surviving peak oil
Bates’s new book delivers a concise summary of the problems of peak oil and climate change followed by chapter after chapter of ideas to prepare yourself and your family to live more self-sufficiently… I have not yet tried his recipe for grasshopper quesadillas.
Urban & housing – Apr 2
Squatter communities as model intentional communities
Ten things wrong with sprawl
Bright green buildings & dark green buildings
Reflective scientist sees a red roof and he wants to paint it white
Solutions & sustainability – April 2
ELP plan: Economize, Localize & Produce
Chicks teach sustainable community
Peak Moment TV highlights localization
WorldChanging is making lists
CSIRO Sustainability Network newsletter
Lovins: US can cut oil imports to zero by 2040
Stories for sustainable future (Orlov on sailboats)
Speaking out – April 1
Kos, Obama, Hillary – join StepItUp (April 14)
Hamburg complains!
Complaints Choirs worldwide
Wakey! Wakey! UK peak energy tour
A coalition of local organisations around Britain, with a common interest in “peak energy”, are launching a series of events around the UK to highlight the issue of the peak and subsequent depletion of UK and global energy supplies.
Solutions & sustainability – March 28
Strategic consumption: Changing the world with what you buy
Sustaining change from the middle ground
APPLE leader inspires others to help planet
Organic gardens vs. chem-fed lawns
Less carbon, more community
The transition to renewable energy
Deep economy: Localism, innovation and knowing what’s what
The steps Bill [McKibben proposes] — local food and local energy — are generally good ones, but they alone are not going to get us anywhere close to one planet living. For that, we need truly radical change, delivered through widespread innovation and systemic redesign, and going far beyond the sorts of impacts we can create though individual consumer actions.
McKibben – Happiness and the deep economy
Bill McKibben has been championing the themes of global warming, peak oil and sustainability for years. In his recently released book, Deep Economy, he focuses on relocalization and a rethinking of our conception of happiness.
Not the end of the world
Much of what is required to prevent [disaster] is simply coming to terms with the notion that a radical change in your way of life is not the same thing as the end of the world.