Dr. Frank Popper on American growth
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 Posted in growth, Economy, adaptation | No Comments »Time for a new American Revolution
Sunday, July 4th, 2010 Posted in Transition Towns, Organizing, Preparedness, Politics, adaptation, peak oil | No Comments »Charles Frink from New London, CT, with a great essay highlighting the Transition movement. Thanks, Alycia, for passing this along.
Deepwater Horizon and the addiction to growth
Friday, June 4th, 2010 Posted in Environmental cleanup, Politics, adaptation, water, peak oil | No Comments »Health and energy analyst Dan Bednarz, in this article, looks at the implicit messages of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. I pray that I'm wrong, but I think Bednarz may be overly optimistic on whether this is the event that turns ...
Moving our nation beyond petroleum
Thursday, May 13th, 2010 Posted in Human Impact, Environmental cleanup, appropriate technology, Politics, Energy, climate change, adaptation, peak oil | 1 Comment »Daphne Wysham on the opportunity presented by the Gulf Coast offshore drilling disaster.
Richard Heinberg comes to Rhode Island
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 Posted in Transition Towns, adaptation, climate change, peak oil | 1 Comment »Noted author and Post Carbon Institute Research FellowRichard Heinberg comes to Rhode Island beginning Monday, April 26. At 1:15pm, he will be giving a talk to the students of South Kingstown High School in South County. There is limited ...
Dmitry Orlov at Bristol Community College March 25th
Friday, March 12th, 2010 Posted in Preparedness, Relocalization, adaptation, peak oil | 1 Comment »Dmitry Orlov, author of Reinventing Collapse:the Soviet Example and American Prospects, will give a mid-day lecture at BCC on Thursday, March 25. The talk is entitled America's Future at the End of the Oil Age: The Pre-Collapse Check-List. Born in Russia, ...
Fixing the Great Mistake: Autocentric Development
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 Posted in Urban solutions, adaptation, transportation | 1 Comment »Peak Moment: Local Food-By and for the people
Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in food security, community supported agriculture, Relocalization, adaptation, food production | 3 Comments »Another conversation from Peak Moment
The Peak Oil Crisis: A Meeting in California
Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Organizing, Networking, Education, adaptation, general, peak oil | 1 Comment »ASPO principal Tom Whipple writes of a peak oil summit meeting in Berkeley, sponsored by the Post Carbon Institute. Last weekend, one of the more out of the ordinary meetings in recent memory took place out in Berkeley where some 30 ...
Transit for a Sustainable Rhode Island
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in adaptation, transportation | No Comments »Apeiron Institute presents Transit for a Sustainable Rhode Island tonight. “The future of Rhode Island is directly linked to developing a robust, sustainable transit network. In recent years our state has begun to recognize the importance of transit and the essential ...