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Permaculture is Not About Returning to the Caves: Bill Wilson Inteview (Video)
It's funny how often you hear people, even within the environmental movement, deriding the back-to-the-land phenomenon. Transition Towns have been dismissed by some as a rebranding of self-sufficient hippydom, for example, and
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Conversations in Design: A World Without Oil
What will the world be like when we run out of oil? Some think it will be pretty much the same as it is now, just with different cars. Others think that it will be fundamentally different. At last year's symposium Reimagining Cities: Urban Design after
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Transition Town Gets Huge Government Check: Conservatives Celebrate
OK, my headline may be slightly misleading. I doubt every conservative is celebrating the news that the small town of Totnes will be getting £500,000 (about US$800,000) in government grant aid as part of the Low Carbon
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"End of Suburbia" Producers Working on New Film
"Resilience means more than just preparing for climate change," says Toronto-based filmmaker Gregory Greene. "It means looking
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Peak Everything: More Things We Are Running Out Of
We have used the peak word to describe a lot of things, in fact eight of them in a roundup and more recently, Peak Sand. David Adam at the Guardian mixes his memes and asks Has peak theory reached
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Transition Network Seeks Diversity: Shouldn't We All?
When I wrote about efforts by Transition Brixton to launch its own currency, commenter Liz voiced her concerns that it was an exercise in "right-on-ness" due to the relative lack of ethnic diversity represented. Others
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In Transition 1.0: Transition Towns Documentary Available Free (Video)
When I posted the trailer for In Transition—the documentary about the Transition Towns movement as a response to peak oil and climate change—commenter CB was less than enamored with the film making
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Six Things We Learned from 'Climate Gate': Rob Hopkins on the CRU Hack
Ahh, 'climate gate', that was a bit of fun, wasn't it? From being accused of trying to "discredit anyone who disagrees with [our] orthodoxy" simply for reporting that one
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Permaculture Farming at 9000 Feet (Video)
From backyard permaculture in Oregon to exploring upbeat perspectives on Peak Oil with Bart Anderson, Peak Moment TV never fails to provide informative, entertaining and inspiring video of people taking action to fight climate
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TED Talk: Transition Founder on Peak Oil, Resilience and Sustainability (Video)
From 13th Century computers to Majora Carter's powerful argument for environmental justice, TED talks are always a wonderful source of inspiration and education. This latest is no exception, as Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition
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An Upbeat Perspective on Peak Oil: Bart Anderson on Coming Challenges
With last year's high gas prices fading in our memories, and with the Copenhagen climate talks grabbing the headlines, the peak oil meme seemed, until recently, to have been taking a bit of a breather. Then along came an
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How Will We Eat When Peak Oil Hits? Tofu, Tree Farms and Electric Tractors
As the wonderful BBC documentary A Farm for the Future has shown us all too clearly, modern agriculture is woefully dependent on fossil fuels, and oil in particular. And with International Energy Agency (IEA)
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Award-Winning Human Powered Vehicle (Video)
From four-wheel-drive human-powered SUVs, to pedicabs, to cargo bikes, pedal-powered transportation is evolving. Students at Chico State University are determined to speed up that evolution with their Human-Powered-Vehicle
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The Best of Fast Company: BP's Bid to Move Beyond Petroleum, Growing Algae in Abandoned Mines, and a Green Makeover for the Humvee
This week at Fast Company, we looked at BP's move into next-generation biofuels, a plan to grow algae quickly and efficiently in abandoned mines, EnerDel's hybrid makeover of the Humvee, and the world's tallest green building.
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IEA Whistleblowers Say World Oil Stats Deliberately Inflated to Avoid Financial Panic, Appease the US
World oil reserves are far lower than officially reported, the situation far more serious than publicly admitted, and we're already past peak oil. That's the word from two anonymous IEA whistleblowers, The Guardian
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Community Planning for Peak Oil: This Doesn't Look So Dark (video)
I posted on Friday about Worldchanging's critic of the Dark Side of Transition Towns, in which Alex Steffen argued that the Transition Town movement is effectively burying its head in the sand—promoting
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The Dark Side of Transition Towns? Worldchanging Slams Transition Movement
We TreeHuggers have long been inspired by the Transition Movement's positive response to peak oil. From planting nut trees for food security to launching local currencies, Transition Initiatives are promoting real,
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Power Tripping Across America with Environmental Journalist Amanda Little
Amanda Little built a journalistic career decrying the pains and convulsions of our petrol-obsessed society, but it wasn't until she embarked on a very personal quest did the story of oil become illuminated in human terms. Amanda tells TreeHugger Radio
