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Keith Johnson New blog entry links at Permaculture and Regenerative Design News...

* Monsanto's Phosphorus Theft * Drugged and Confused? * Monsanto Claus * World War I School Gardens… Continue

Added by Keith Johnson on December 7, 2009 at 3:19pm — No Comments

PlanetShifterMan Black’n’Dirty Profit Wounds: The Case Against Chevron

Black’n’Dirty Profit Wounds: The Case Against Chevron http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1419 "...Non-governmental organizations are creatively communicating the business case for why Chevron should change its ways, focusing on mobilizing company shareholders and consumers to compel the company to come clean and pursue social and environmental leadership." Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on December 3, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

PlanetShifterMan Designing the New Grid: Resilience Village, El Cerrito, CA

Designing the New Grid: Resilience Village, El Cerrito, CA http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1407 "Oil scarcity and the shit storm it will bring may or may not be something you see happening. Nevertheless, being able to survive independently of such forces is easily doable with no loss of happiness or comfort. Dependency comes from crappy design, bad laws, and laziness." Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on November 21, 2009 at 7:52pm — No Comments

David MacLeod Local Solutions from a Peak Oil Task Force: A Briefing Paper

Last week I wrote here about the Creation of a Local Peak Oil Task Force in Bellingham and Whatcom County. Today I want to share the Briefing Paper that was prepared in advance of the task force. This paper was written to accompany and support the City and County Resolutions creating the task force in May of 2008. Some will want to read the 8 page paper as one document - please see the pdf attachment below th… Continue

Added by David MacLeod on November 8, 2009 at 7:16pm — No Comments

David MacLeod The Creation of a Local Peak Oil Task Force

The Energy Resource Scarcity / Peak Oil (ERSPO) Task Force of Bellingham and Whatcom County will soon be releasing its report. In preparation, I thought it would be a good idea to provide some background. In the spring of 2007, local peak oil educator John Rawlins suggested to me that it might be a good idea to pass around a petition in support of a peak oil task force here in Bellingham, Washington. I didn't have time to get a petition drive going, but soon after that I read a ca… Continue

Added by David MacLeod on November 1, 2009 at 8:16pm — No Comments

Larry Menkes Made two presentations on Transition Towns recently... Interesting experience... PA EAC's and USGBC chapters a help

I have been doing two monthly sustainability video-discussion events for almost a 18 months. As usual, I didn't think to post the most recent events here, even they were on the Transition movement. I don't think I've ever had a response from this website. I was surprised by a nice turnout for both the Doylestown and the Warminster, PA events. Sold (at cost) several copies of the Trans Initiatives Primer. I missed out getting mailing list at both, but can recover most. I knew about half of the cr… Continue

Added by Larry Menkes on August 16, 2009 at 9:35pm — 1 Comment

Carolyn Baker REAL PEOPLE, REAL PREPARATION, Part Three: Working Class Wealth

To access all links in this story, please visit the SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER website. We started out just bringing muffins or extra eggs to neighbors. This has mushroomed into so much back and forth bartering, gifting and trading that it is just mind-boggling! It seems the closer we get to collapse, the more food, supplies, t… Continue

Added by Carolyn Baker on July 27, 2009 at 7:20am — No Comments

Toban Black Airplane economics and airplane ecology

A post on my main blog - http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=1326 Continue

Added by Toban Black on June 26, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Toban Black Automobiles and fossil fuels

A post on my main blog - http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=1322 Continue

Added by Toban Black on June 26, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Toban Black “Permablitzing” — An overview

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Added by Toban Black on June 24, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Toban Black Entrenched automobile industries

A post on my main blog - http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=1261 Continue

Added by Toban Black on June 2, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Larry Menkes How communities can combat 'climate fatigue'

Here's a cautionary tale that I found on a recent ENN post that points to the value of promoting community resilience. LM By Colleen Kimmett March 12, 2009 04:17 pm (Editor's note: Kimmett is blogging about From the Ground Up, a conference on sustainable communities, hosted by the Columbia Institute last week in Harrison.) Dawson Creek has a reputation of being one of B.C.'s most progressive municipalities when it comes to renewable energy. So when councilor Cheryl Shuman completed Al Gore's… Continue

Added by Larry Menkes on April 15, 2009 at 10:05am — No Comments

nika Ambivalence

Maize's babies: Day 2
Its funny how a massive and scary idea like Peak Oil can wrap it's tentacles around the mind and nudge thoughts in particular directions. There is certainly the whole grief dynamic that one must cycle through, of necessity it is a loop an… Continue

Added by nika on April 2, 2009 at 8:48am — No Comments

David Floyd A Farm for the Future

Rebecca Hoskins marvelous film examining prospects for agriculture post-peak. Don't miss this. Continue

Added by David Floyd on March 26, 2009 at 5:52pm — No Comments

Kathryn Blume Why Big Oil Misses The Picture

Great article from Triple Pundit: Just when you thought that Big Oil was coming around, that maybe they thought it might be a good idea to invest in our collective future, not just oil futures, Royal Dutch Shell announces that it will focus its "renewable investment" portfolio on oil, gas and biofuels (ignoring solar, wind and other alternatives). Never mind that oil and gas are hardly renewable resources by any stretch of the imagination; this news… Continue

Added by Kathryn Blume on March 19, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

NeSS A link to ongoing effects of the drug wars in Mexico...just another step into post carbon

http://www.energyandcapital.net/newsletter.php?date=2009-03-11 Although this is an article from a non-altruistic site, the article, nevertheless, is revealing. Unrest is simply one more spoon in the mix of the disappearance/disruption of petroleum. Thought you might find it interesting. Peace. We do the research. Continue

Added by NeSS on March 11, 2009 at 3:51pm — No Comments

Paul Andrew Anderson Living Requires Energy!

Everything requires energy. What humans did (post-IR), was to replace living energy with dead energy. Humans used to actually labor. We used animals for their strength; we got our horsepower from actual horses! And some of us still do! We are Amish; we are Old Order Mennonites; we are simple-living Anabaptist's. It will be difficult, but not impossible, to convert the elite; those conditioned by Victorianism; to make farmers and builders out of them… Continue

Added by Paul Andrew Anderson on February 22, 2009 at 12:52pm — No Comments

nika Asimov, Peak Oil, if only 20 years ago ...

(Crossposted at Peaknix) Hubbert saw it all so black and white back in the 1950s. His bell curve was a simple affair, nothing revolutionary, simply a unimodal use diagram of a limited resource.… Continue

Added by nika on January 13, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

nika Replete with a bare minimum

(Cross posted to Peaknix)
Homemade Rye Sesame crackers
I realized when I was planning last year’s garden just how fantastically hard it is to grow enough in the summer to replace an entire year’… Continue

Added by nika on January 8, 2009 at 2:27pm — No Comments

nika Bardo and Transition

(Cross-posted at Peaknix)
Snowmageddon Fun
Craving stability in our living arrangements, our food sources, our political and governing state as well as our personal security is a natural enough thing, truly. As babies, this is… Continue

Added by nika on December 30, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

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