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[Portland Transport Comments] Portland Transport: Movie Review: End of Suburbia: But last Wednesday I went to a screening of End of Surburbia put on by a newly formed group of concerned citizens billing themselves as Peak Oil Portland. I've got to say, the film veered perilously close to being a horror flick ”” complete with approaching, seemingly invincible monster that will destroy life as we know it.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum: Campfire | Where will our staple foods come from?: I doubt the fungus is a new species that evolved since they started growing hazelnuts in the area. Likely it has been around a long time, and something they have been doing has made it spring to action, or it was imported from somewhere else (which happens all the time).

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: December 2, 2009: Mayor Kevin Foy: This October the Town Council passed a resolution acknowledging the need to prepare for a post Peak Oil economy and a new Green Economy. The council has asked the Town Sustainability Committee to work to address both short-term and long-term strategies as a component of the committee's Sustainability Work Plan.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: January 6, 2010: Add in the wheat rust that seems to be heading to China (thus taking out 2 or 3 of the classic grains) or a release of any of the claimed crop viruses/fungi the bioweapon labs are charged with having....there is plenty to worry about WRT a food shortage.

[On Wisconsin] Classnotes « On Wisconsin: You might say that Henry “Heinie” Lund ’87 of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is “flying on his strengths.” The former UW cheerleader and varsity letter winner in diving is now a Delta-Northwest flight attendant (and trapeze teacher) who’s put his acrobatic skills to work: in October, Lund raised money for breast-cancer research ”” as part of the airline’s campaign ”” by performing back flips in the aisles of planes before take-off.

[Energy Bulletin -] Climate catastrophe: Surviving the 21st century | Energy Bulletin: The heretofore unpublicized "good news" on climate change, according to the Rodale Institute 12 and other soil scientists, is that transitioning from chemical, water, and energy-intensive industrial agriculture practices to organic farming and ranching on the world's 3.5 billion acres of farmland and 8.2 billion acres of pasture or rangeland can sequester up to 7,000 pounds per acre of climate-destabilizing CO2 every year, while nurturing healthy soils, plants, grasses, and trees that are resistant to drought, heavy rain, pests, and disease. And as we have noted, organic farms and ranches provide us with food that is much more nutritious than industrial farms and ranches-food filled with vitamins, anti-oxidants, and essential trace minerals, free from Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), pesticides, antibiotics, and sewage sludge.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Energy and Our Future | Revisiting Relocalization: Relocalization advocates rebuilding more balanced local economies that emphasize securing basic needs. Local food, energy and water systems are perhaps the most critical to build.xxv In the absence of reliable trade partners, whether from peak oil, natural disaster or political instability, a local economy that at least produces its essential goods will have a true comparative advantage.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | What Energy / Sustainability books would you ...: I know this thread is about books, but I recently downloaded the doco "The End of Suburbia". It's a really good intro to Peak Oil and its consequences - especially relevant to Sydney and Melbourne with our sprawling suburbs (the makers of the doco have made it available on a few sites for free by the way, if you are morally opposed to using Vuse or similar software).

[EnergyBulletin.net Peak Oil] Visioning the Future | Energy Bulletin: In recent posts I have been chewing over the idea of visioning, and its central importance to Energy Descent work. As part of a presentation I am preparing for a talk next week, I hunted down various images from the 1930s of how people then thought we would be living today.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » No compassion: It is reportedly very painful. Eventually fungi grows in the esophagus, making it difficult to eat, .

[Freeconomy Blog] The Top 10 skills for the future - justfortheloveofit.org ...: Take something that is broken and make it useable by adding a component that might be entirely incongruous with the original article but works nonetheless, and you have bodged. Once you have raised a sweat repairing it, you can sit and use your sense of humour and laughter at how funny it now looks, feel a sense of pride that you did it, and then sit daydreaming for an hour or four.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Relocalization: A Strategic Response to Climate ...: My personal belief is that the society in this scenario hasn't a chance of surviving in the medium term, that is, ten years after the all liquids peak and that it will be chaotis, anarchic and unfocused when it does collapse. This is based to a large extent on the "service" nature of the economy, a fiat monetaary system, resources depeltion, lack of "useful" skills, a necessary highly complex infrastructure, continued population growth and consumption beyond basic needs.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum: Campfire | SnowBear Farm - Ten Thousand Hours and ...: The herbs are obviously also seen as a product but a healthy landscape will have not 4 or 6 herbs but dozens, not just for flavour and medicinal purposes but as garden chemicals and environmental supports. The wormwood I grow keeps the predators off almost everything, the comfrey mines the deep clay and returns leached nutrients to the soil, acts as living mulch, protects the potatoes from many soil borne diseases and is a great foliar feed, Calendula attracts pollinators and is an antiseptic for minor abrasions etc etc.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | "Peak Oil" or "Limits to Growth": We could have ten times as many windfarms,and one tenth as many jerks in suits flying hundreds of thousands of miles every year selling junk that people buy mainly just because their nieghbors buy it too.No unproven technology,no pie in the sky are needed to accomplish such things.Of course some new technology will come online fast enough to make a difference too.I am particularly hopeful that a second gereration so to speak of the (agricultural) Green Revolution will soon provide us with crops that need less rather than more coddleing with fertilizers and pesticides. A lot of people are coming around to a similar point of view.There is a chance that we will become so numerous that the politicians will figure out where we are headed and run in front in order to get credit for leading us to the new new world order.

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