The Post Carbon Church
Everything will relocalize as our easy-motoring way of life persistently constricts after Peak Oil, including how we do church. What will the Post-Carbon Church look like?
Act: Inspiration
Oakland aims to be oil independent by 2020
The city council of Oakland, California yesterday unanimously passed legislation, inspired by Sweden, making Oakland the first city in the U.S. to aim for oil independence by 2020.
Transport – Oct 17
Columbia, transportation and the politics of happiness
Bus rapid transit (BRT)
The O-Bahn busway
Americans commute earlier and longer
Peak-oil activists continue to explore solutions
For 40 years, Community Solution has been advocating a return from big cities and sprawling suburbs to small, rural communities. In the last three years, the group has focused on how peak oil is going to force America to decentralize whether we like it or not.
Climate – Oct 15
Citing heavenly injunctions to fight earthly warming
Climate change is expensive. Does that help?
Climate change inaction will cost trillions
New combatant against global warming: insurance industry
It’s official: climate change changes everything
Proposing Plan C
Participants at last month’s Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions learned how they must use less energy, save and share resources and grow food in their communities. This response to the coming peak and permanent decline of global oil production, is dubbed “Plan C: Curtailment, Cooperation, and Community.”
Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting
As today’s economics of imaginary wealth comes apart under the stress of peak oil, talk about a “new economy” misses the point. What’s needed — and can be built, starting with actions on a personal scale — is an old economy, in which money exchanges play a much smaller role.
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 11
Will silicon light illuminate the future?
A climate hero
Healthy gardens just the start for healthy community
Relocalisation comes to town
Energy Descent: Community questions future
A post-peak open space event
Are you exceptional?
Communities, Refuges, and Refuge-Communities
How do our metaphors for Peak Oil direct our thought about its severity? This essay examines this question and others that relate to Peak Oil preparations and the debate within the peaknik community about how bad it might get.
The infrastructure of the future
The Italian infrastructure may just be one the best adapted for the energy-constrained future into which we are now heading.
The Heart of a Revolution
Scores of those who are aware of our troubles have convinced themselves that the answer lies in more of the same. But there are those who have another idea. (A Report from Third US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions.)
Permablitzing the suburbs
A permablitz is a permaculture-inspired backyard makeover where people come together to share knowledge and skills about organic food production in urban gardens while building community and having fun.