Solutions & sustainability – Dec 28
A grass-roots push for a ‘low carbon diet’ – how new ideas spread
Visit to an island nation (Scotland and England)
Act: Inspiration
Top 10 sustainability stories of 2006
Reviewing the year of 2006 from the perspective of sustainability in state and local government.
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 27
Book review: Peak Oil Prep
Paul Hawken: What’s next
3,000 people get by without buying new things
Being green can make you happy: new study
Slow food’s growing pains
Resolutions for a Post-Peak New Year
Ten New Year’s resolutions to help get ready for a world on the far side of Hubbert’s peak, focusing on practical steps most people can accomplish in their lives right now.
The ripening
I sat excitedly at the speakers’ table for the press conference unveiling the Southern California Association of Governments’ (SCAG) 2006 State of the Region Report. The usual group of reporters, both print and broadcast was there. I had spent many hours formulating responses to anticipated questions regarding my remarks and the inclusion of an important new section acknowledging “peak oil.” (Debbie Cook is Mayor Pro Tem for the City of Huntington Beach)
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 24
Holiday-induced thoughts about peak oil
How to have a green Christmas
Community size in a post-fossil-fuel age
Skilling up for Powerdown – course notes
Global warming-era parenthood
Henry Miller quote
Rail – Dec 24
Rail boom hits environmental, NIMBY snags
North Coast Railroad Authority
Rail-Volution
U.S. energy policy – Dec 24
Democrats’ energy goals likely to be modest
Yes, oil from Venezuela
Energy sect’y Bodman: This needs to change
Nancy Nadel on Oakland’s oil independence resolution
“Happy Relocalisers”, Doomers, Wheelwrights and the concept of Resilience
A key concept in the whole responses-to-peak-oil debate of whether one might prioritise individual survival over communal survival, or vice versa, may well be one found in the study of ecology, that of resilience.
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 21
New German community models car-free living
Software & community in the early 21st century
Permaculture for the inner landscape
A natural builder creates an ecovillage
Suburban renewal – one backyard at a time
Peak oil – Dec 21
Ten principles of post oil-peak planning
The energy detensive economy (for local governments)
Peak Oil Blues – interview
PO & GW do not fit a socially believable disaster profile
Alternative to powerdown?
New documentary: “What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire”
Mike Ruppert back in U.S.
Cuba’s strange path
Cuba has become the poster child for a transition away from an agricultural economy based on fossil fuel inputs and for a society focused on self-sufficiency. Strangely, it may owe much of its success in this regard to its relative backwardness and its isolation from the world community.