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What A Way To Go: Life at the end of Empire

“A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle” This is a really well put together film. Highly recommended. You can buy the film from the official website [https://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/] or download it

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Does Ecosia really have "impeccable ecological credentials"?

UPDATE: Ecosia deserve huge respect for this [https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-support-climate-activism-civil-disobedience/]: > Ecosia is now taking concrete steps to facilitate climate activism. Going forward, all Ecosia employees can engage in climate activism during weekdays – they don’t need to take time off or call in sick. If they incur

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Cancún: No agreement is better than a bad agreement!

December 9 statement by La Via Campesina: We call on humanity to act immediately to rebuild the life of all of nature, applying the concept of “life in balance.” Members of La Vía Campesina from more than thirty countries from all over the world united our thousands of struggles in

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Mark Rutledge for Cap and Share models for sustainable energy commons

Via Feasta [https://feasta.org]: “Cap and Share: mechanisms to share scarce resources and provide economic incentives for renewable energy and efficiency investment. Mark Rutledge, an environmental consultant, argues that the adoption of Cap and Share, Feasta’s proposed framework for a global climate treaty, is a necessary tool for

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Will The Brixton Pound Buy A Brighter Future?

by Leo Hickman Tomorrow the Transition Town movement launches a currency designed to boost local trade and bring communities closer together A Brixton market stallholder . . . ‘It’s Monopoly money,’ says one. ‘I won’t be having anything to do with it’. Photograph: Graeme Robertson It has all the makings of

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London Vegan Festival

The London Vegan Festival [https://www.vegancampaigns.org.uk/festival/] this year took place in Kensington Town Hall, and was absolutely heaving. Usually, the odds of bumping into another vegan are slightly higher than those of two Esperanto speakers meeting, so hanging out in a hall packed full of them

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so when you say collapse…

[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UBjXcgfboak/SqkRN-RiKYI/AAAAAAAABjQ/o0zEKbkAX34/s1600-h/collapse.jpg] This funny thing used to happen when my friend Todd and I discussed peak oil and energy descent back when we were just coming to grips with all of that. One of us would begin to explain a

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Backyard Solar Dish Melts Steel

[https://cleantechnica.com/files/2009/08/rawsolar.jpg] We’re all familiar with the vast solar thermal power stations in the desert that use mirrors to make steam to drive turbines. Giant solar thermal arrays are already making electricity in the desert in Spain and California. But what if we

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Agroforestry Found On Nearly Half The World’s Farms

For centuries, farmers have placed trees among their crops to enhance soil health, raise marketable fruits or nuts, and protect row crops from damaging winds. Yet agroforestry, as the practice is known, is generally considered a rarity among mainstream farmers. New data suggests that more farmers practice agroforestry than previously

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Towards a Dark Mountain reading list

This post by Dougald Hine [https://dougald.co.uk/] originally appeared on the Dark Mountain [https://dark-mountain.net/blog/towards-a-dark-mountain-reading-list/https://dark-mountain.net/blog/towards-a-dark-mountain-reading-list/] blog Over the last few weeks, a lot of people have asked us to suggest books which pick up on the themes of this project.

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The Pedagogy of Collapse

I owe John Michael Greer a beer, or maybe two. Now that he’s moved to this half of the continent, I may yet have a chance to offer him one. Over the years of writing, Greer and I have argued and allied, worked together and apart, had our books

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200 Urban Farms in Havana

Havana relies on 200 urban farms known as organoponicos The vegetable gardeners of Havana By Sarah Murch BBC Two’s Future of Food August 2009 Climate change, drought, population growth – they could all threaten future food supplies. But global agriculture, with its dependence on fuel and fertilisers is also highly

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Camp for Climate Action

Image by Mia Overgaard [https://www.miaovergaard.com/] The Camp for Climate Action [https://www.climatecamp.org.uk/] 2009 is almost upon us – now’s the time to gather ourselves and prepare to swoop. Convinced that the response to climate change needs more? Ready to share skills, knowledge and experiences?

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Observations on apocalypse

[https://www.dark-mountain.net/wordpress/2009/08/18/observations-on-apocalypse/durer/] Today I’m engaging in a long and occasionally heated debate with George Monbiot [https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/aug/17/environment-climate-change] in the pages of the Guardian about the future of civilisation. And yes, it is

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Pulling the wool from over our eyes

On August 12th at 1pm, hundreds of New Zealanders paused for five minutes with woolly hats over their eyes. We then lifted our hats together, showing that we will not have the wool pulled over our eyes about the possibilities for real action on climate change. Scientists say that an

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Carbon Offsets: A Dangerous Distraction

Friends of the Earth explain why offsetting is a dangerous distraction from the urgent business of decarbonizing the world’s economies. CDM and related offset plans can’t be reformed: they must be scrapped. The following is the Executive Summary of Friends of the Earth’s new report, A Dangerous

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Transport in Transition. A Guest Piece by Peter Lipman.

Transformation Moment: low carbon travel. How, and how far, will we travel if we make the changes we need to in order to thrive in a carbon constrained society? For a range of interlocking reasons, the conclusion of this paper is that we will be happier, healthier and more resilient

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When is a problem not a problem?

News of the Dark Mountain Project has started to reach civilisation. Few institutions could be more civilised, more wedded to the myth of progress, than the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce – yet its Arts and Ecology editor, William Shaw, is not immune to ‘Uncivilisation’, describing

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Lots of Transition TV

If you like a little video inspiration from time to time, here are two great sources of content from the Transition field. There are lots more, but these will keep you going for a while. The NSW Transition website [https://transition.org.au] has a range of well organised videos.

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The Manchester Report: 20 Ideas for Solving the Climate Crisis (via feedly)

The solutions picked by the Guardian and Manchester International Festival’s expert panel as the most promising for tackling global warming The Guardian and Manchester International Festival assembled an expert panel to sift through ideas for tackling climate change from all over the world. Below are the top 20 and

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Links for April 12th to April 16th

These are my links for April 12th to April 16th: * Design Council | Directory listings | Events and competitions | Design in Alternative Futures [https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/Directory-Listings/Events-and-Competitions/Design-in-Alternative-Futures/] – 2009 will be remembered as a year of global economic downturn, but what could this mean for the future of

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Links for March 14th to March 23rd

These are my links for March 14th to March 23rd: * Defra, UK – News – News releases 2009 – Third sector taskforce on climate change and environment launched [https://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2009/090323a.htm] – A new taskforce launched today will help the government and the not-for-profit sector to tackle climate

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Links for February 22nd to February 23rd

These are my links for February 22nd to February 23rd: * GOOD.is Transparency – Getting Around [https://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/web/trans0209gettingaround.html] – A nice graphic showing how much energy is needed for various different modes of transport. Cycling comes out best. * Free Wifi in London…Mapped – Londonist: London News,

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Links for December 9th to January 8th

These are my links for December 9th to January 8th: * Mind42.com – Collaborative mind mapping in your browser [https://mind42.com/] – Mind42.com is a browser based online mind mapping application. With Mind42.com installing mindmapping tools is no longer needed – for a hassle-free mindmapping experience. Just open the browser

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Bolivian government calls for Open Source Appropriate Technology

The following text [https://www.alternet.org/story/112765/bolivian_president_evo_morales%3A_20_ways_to_save_mother_earth_and_prevent_environmental_disaster/?page=entire] on development in the context of climate change, by Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, contains 20 proposals, three of which are an undisguised call