Chris Martenson on Peak Oil—Energy budgeting
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in False Solutions, Economy, Energy, peak oil | No Comments »He's on to part 17 out of 20 in his Crash Course. Part B and C of Chris Martenson's lesson on peak oil deal with the intersection of energy and economics. At the outset of this program, Chris says this ...
Summer Streets in NYC: Car-free Park Ave. Saturdays in August
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Community, renewable energy, transportation | No Comments »I have family in Manhattan, and watching this video, I got (sniff) a little emotional. 7am to 1pm on three successive Saturdays in August, ending on the 23rd. It's a start. So much nicer to see events like this than ...
Ross Conrad and Natural Beekeeping
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Gardening/Farming, food production | No Comments »Another in a series of video shorts we produced at Apeiron this past summer. Buy Ross's book at Chelsea Green.
Chris Martenson on Peak Oil—Do not miss
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Energy, Education, peak oil | No Comments »Chris Martenson's latest chapter in his "Crash Course" is now out, and the topic is peak oil. This is a must-see. A teaching resource second to none. If you want to show your reasonably intelligent friends, family members, colleagues why ...
Fifth US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Preparedness, Relocalization, Education, adaptation, Community, peak oil | No Comments »October 31 to November 2 in Rochester, Michigan. Here's the link for more info. Great speakers, great sponsoring organization. This has my vote for the conference to attend if you want to find like-minded people interested in community resilience, preparedness ...
Whitehouse, experts warn of Rhode Island climate change effects
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Politics, climate change | No Comments »Sen. Whitehouse and others appeared at the URI Bay Campus recently to talk about the effects of climate change on Rhode Island's environment and economy. Here's the story.
Heinberg on Resilient Communities
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Relocalization, Community, adaptation | No Comments »Thanks to Greg for passing this along. The following is a proposal to help make communities better able to respond to the coming economic shocks from resource depletion, beginning with Peak Oil, and perhaps also to shocks from other causes (such ...
Transition Towns
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Education, Relocalization, Community, adaptation, climate change, peak oil | No Comments »For the next two weeks, we will be sharing information on the Transition Towns movement. I just received Rob Hopkins' book, The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience. People around us have been reading Bill McKibben's book, Deep ...
More Robert Hirsch on Peak Oil: tackling one urgent problem, ignoring another
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 Posted in False Solutions, Economy, Energy, peak oil | No Comments »This piece came out as oil approached $150 a barrel. While prices have dropped, the fundamental realities of supply are unchanged. Hirsch puts things in stark perspective, to the point of discussing the environmental sacrifices that will be needed (using ...
I.O.U.S.A. the movie
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in Politics, Economy, Money | No Comments »This website attempts to be about crisis management (among other things). We are all for any teaching tools that give the American people a clue about the dire economic emergency in which we're mired. Chris Martenson calls this the movie ...