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.
The flood of 2010
Friday, April 9th, 2010 Posted in Environmental cleanup, Human Impact, Preparedness, climate change | 1 Comment »While sunny skies have dominated the past week in Rhode Island, many residents have spent long hours draining flooded basements and lugging damaged possessions out into the yard. The rivers have receded, now comes the FEMA aid applications, the salvage, ...
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, ...
Ordinary Fears, Extraordinary Times
Monday, November 30th, 2009 Posted in Psychology, Denial, Preparedness, Economy, adaptation, Community, general | No Comments »Kathy McMahon of Peak Oil Blues offers sage advice here. Peak Oil, Climate change and the Greater Depression will pose many challenges to our way of life but let’s get real, for a moment: Golden Hordes aren’t one of them. At ...
Adaption to big changes-Bart Anderson
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Posted in Psychology, Transition Towns, Preparedness, Energy, adaptation, Relocalization, peak oil | No Comments »Busy week (or so): SC Green Drinks, Mass. Relocalization, Bioneers
Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Preparedness, Urban solutions, Transition Towns, Relocalization, Education, climate change, Community, peak oil | No Comments »Lots of encouraging stuff happening in New England in October. Our own South County Green Drinks meets Wednesday Oct. 14th, 6:30 pm at a member's home in Matunuck. Featured is Shannon McIntyre, a South Kingstown woman and McGill University grad, ...
Apocalypse later? I’m going local now
Monday, August 17th, 2009 Posted in Preparedness, Relocalization, adaptation | No Comments »Great article by Doug Fine in the Washington Post.
Transition in Northern California: a model worth emulating
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Posted in Energy, Preparedness, Relocalization, Community, adaptation, peak oil | No Comments »Great article on peak oil and Transition in northern California. Anyone in Rhode Island interested in going beyond discussion into action on Transition planning, please email us at relocalize1@gmail.com. The economic crisis may have bought us two to three years ...
Peak oil on Nightline
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted in Preparedness, adaptation, peak oil | No Comments »ABC's Nightline did their first in what will likely be many more human interest stories on peak oil awareness, and people's responses. They chose Kathie Breault, an articulate grandmother in New York state who has made profound changes in her ...
Sharon Astyk: The Competence Project
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Preparedness, Education, general | No Comments »At a Transition Towns training in Cambridge, Mass. this past weekend, I manned a table where we talked about resource-sharing and "re-skilling." Along these lines, Astyk introduces The Competence Project in this article. This is the newest in Astyk's related series ...