Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Helplessness:
“the exaggerated feeling of lack of control, of enormous danger, of inability to respond to danger, that comes from repeated exposure to actual or apparent threats.”
Rx:
1) get our facts straight.
2) become less helpless
3) learn how the world really works
There are many points of convergence between this newly identified brand of crunchy (slang for counter-cultural) conservative creature and the eco-hippie crunchy liberal. (Book review)
Astyk: Living off the waste of industrial society
Hopkins: Honour the elders
Orlov: The despotism of the image
The straight line is the road to hell
Programs let homes produce green power
Sharon Astyk is one of us in the peak oil movement who advocates relocalisation and self sufficiency. Is this vision based on a romantic notion?
Soil Association director Patrick Holden in interview says, “I believe that localism and cellular, from the ground up activity will be the defining impulse of 21st century agriculture.”
The City of Portland’s Peak Oil Task Force released its 88-page draft report for public comment.
Carbon reduction action groups (CRAGs) in UK
Nobel laureates: sustainability needs more than science
Beyond the green corporation
Tree hugger wants a beautiful wooden house
Latin America takes on urbanization
10 ways to green your community
We will have to be much more imaginative as a people if we are to take meaningful action to deal with global warming. It is a simple truth that economic activity that transforms the Earth into consumer products is the main problem.
‘Ethical pharmaceuticals’ could change world politics?
Unconsumption
What’s the key to bright green cities?
Yes! Building a just, sustainable compassionate world
New quest in British politics: public happiness
Father of energy efficiency to get Fermi Award
100-mile diet: local food strategies
Never too old to save the earth
Local living economies
“Who am I?” in a post-petroleum world
ASPO’s Steve Andrews speaks in New Mexico
Does the peak oil theory just fall down?
Indirect impacts of peak oil and climate change
Mayor’s climate protection agreement compared to PO resolutions
Frances Moore Lappé: creating real prosperity
Independence from the corporate global economy
Economics of life in balance
