Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
For readers interested in what can be done on a local level, please consider taking the following suggestions and recommendations to your local government leaders. (Report and recommendations from a member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force.)
– Cities healthy for cars, unhealthy for people
– Building the New Urbanism
– Eco-friendly small-town America
Fight or flight? / That’s enough oil – I’m going to make my own energy from now on / Meditations on deciding never to fly again / 3rd U.S. conference on peak oil and community solutions (Ohio Sept 22-24) /
APSO 5: Plan B – enabling relocalisation as a response to peak oil
Former oilman Jeffrey Brown and activist Nan Hildreth have been spreading the Peak Oil message. They’re part of a Peak Oil mini-conference this Sunday in Houston.
As an unusually long and sweltering heat wave enveloped the traditionally mild San Francisco Bay Area, power outages knocked out air conditioning, and gas prices under $3.00 a gallon seemed like leisure suits or vinyl LPs, relics of a long forgotten era, those who have been warning of the consequences of global warming and the eventual decline of a fossil fuel-based life felt an awkward sense of vindication.
Even if peak oil production turns out to be decades away, the contributions of the peak oil movement are already manifold. The people involved are forcing a re-evaluation not only of the idea of energy and its sources, but of the very way in which we live
Interview: Michael Armstrong, staff to the Portland Peak Oil Task Force / Hirsch talk at U of Calgary (slides) / San Francisco Supervisor on peak oil / 3rd Community Solutions peak oil conference – Ohio Sept 22-24
London: How to write low-carbon policies /
Jane Jacobs, reconsidered / Stockholm: goodbye, for now, to a successful traffic congestion tax
The total abrogation of responsibility by the federal government has led to a handful of local governments to start considering action on their own to prepare for what is sure to come. The furthest along is Portland, Oregon.
The logic of sufficiency / Given enough minds – bridging the ingenuity gap / Something exciting is happening in Britain’s suburbs / So big and healthy Grandpa wouldn’t even know you
Artists, we need you. We need your vision and your courage to tell the truth. We’ve got plenty of “analysis,” and enough punditry to last us forever. What we lack are the gut-wrenching stories that put a human face on the collapse that is upon us.
The world is quickly ramping-up toward a full awareness of the various fundamental crises affecting our way of life. How can we move beyond disillusionment and anxiety to embrace the life-changes that are being demanded of us?
