Peak Oil Education: The light, the sweet, the crude Part 1
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Energy, peak oil | No Comments »Corporations Uber Alles (thanks to How to Boil a Frog)
South Kingstown’s Community Garden
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Gardening/Farming, adaptation, community gardens, food production | No Comments »Update: Our proposal was approved for the development of a beautiful 19,000 square foot site near the school. Check our garden page for future updates on our progress. Many thanks to the Town of South Kingstown, the School Committee, Superintendent ...
Pat Logan and “A Century of Limits”
Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Energy, adaptation, general | No Comments »Dr. Pat Logan at University of Rhode Island could teach many of us a thing or two about limits to growth, converging crises, resource depletion, and faith in transformation on a planetary scale. He just finished another semester of his ...
It’s not that bad, is it? The changing role of the “peak-oil aware”
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Energy, Relocalization, Community, adaptation, peak oil | No Comments »Important piece by Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns movement and Transition Culture Things are moving so fast at the moment as we stand on the cusp of $130 a barrel oil and the impacts are starting to bite ...
Robert Hirsch on CNBC
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Economy, Energy, adaptation, peak oil | No Comments »Colbert and Kunstler are great, but enough levity. This gave me chills, mainly 'cause it's just so damn candid. Hirsch says we will soon look at the prices we are paying at the pump today as "the good old days." ...
Sobering News: WSJ, Toronto Globe & Mail
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Economy, Energy, peak oil | No Comments »Things are happening way too quickly. This article from the Globe & Mail and this one from the Wall Street Journal point to rapidly rising prices, and the latest acknowledgment of supply problems and the possibility of shortfalls ...
To teens in the first decade of the 21st century
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Community, adaptation, general | No Comments »Excellent essay by John O. Anderson There is something here for everyone.
International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Energy, climate change, peak oil | No Comments »CT State Rep.: Peak Oil–Everything’s going to change
Saturday, May 17th, 2008 Posted in Energy, peak oil | No Comments »Connecticut State Rep. Terry Backer, in this Connecticut Post article, discusses peak oil and the Connecticut legislature's forward-thinking efforts. Rhode Island lawmakers, please take note. Connecticut broke out of the pack this month to become the first state in the country ...
PBS:The Greening of Braddock, Pennsylvania
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Economy, Conservation, Community, adaptation, general | No Comments »Must-see piece from PBS; audio and video at this link