Building Community

Bioneers: the corporate media, storytelling and more

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Over 3000 people attended the 17th Annual Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California, Oct. 20-23. The gathering was beamed by satellite to another 10,000 at 18 remote sites from Honolulu to Anchorage to Houston to Massachusetts. According to founder Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers seeks “to bring biological pioneers together to restore the Earth.”

New hippies are fighting to replace oil

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The generation of activists who fought for civil rights, against an unpopular war, and started the environmental movement is poised for one last hurrah, one more attempt to cure the ills of American society. They’re older now, and perhaps a little wiser. They’re settled into their communities, some of them already retired. And they’re scared as hell about the lives facing their children and grandchildren once the oil runs out.

Proposing Plan C

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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.”