The most fun bummer film we've ever seen.
After the success of our showing of Coal Country at the end of February, we are now announcing the next three showings in Transition Staunton Augusta’s Local Motion Film Series.
These films will make you think. They will inspire you. And they may make you angry. But however they make you feel, we hope the films will offer our community a chance to begin talking together about peak oil, local food, and how to build an economy beyond fossil fuels that will help Staunton and Augusta County enjoy prosperity in the future. Read more »
"Coal Country," Thurs, Feb. 18 at 7pm at the Mockingbird in Staunton.
We’re starting a new film series and our first showing is Coal Country.
Every third Thursday at the Mockingbird in downtown Staunton we’ll show films on energy, food, and other hot topics to prepare for the economy of the 21st century.
Coal Country is the story of America’s leading energy source and the people and communities in Appalachia who pay the biggest price for our addiction to fossil fuels. Read more »
Buy Local Campaigns worked this Christmas, says new study.
It’s easy to get cynical about “buy local” campaigns when you compare the traffic at Main Street shops with the parking lot at Wal-Mart.
Is Buy Local any more effective a slogan than Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No”?
A new survey just says yes. The study, put out by a coalition of business groups, shows that the little guys actually outperformed the big guys this Christmas season. And further, that Buy Local campaigns made a difference.
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Richard Heinberg says that peak oil caused the current recession.
Some people care about climate change. Certainly, it would be better if more people cared. But everybody cares about the economy.
And when you understand peak oil — that oil and other fossil fuels are finite resources and that supply is starting to decline — it’s easy to see that our economy needs to kick its addiction to fossil fuels for purely economic reasons.
Richard Heinberg and others argue that it was not the subprime mortgage crisis that led to today’s recession, the worst downturn since the 1930s, but that high energy costs were the true culprit. Read more »
NASA's Jim Hansen has a better plan than cap-and-trade.
The Obama Adminstration and its allies in Congress think that cap-and-trade will help us transition towards clean energy and conservation by making fossil fuels more expensive.
They’re right about the second part — oil and coal will become more expensive under this scheme.
But NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen,who’s become an outspoken policy advocate, says that what he calls cap-and-tax won’t help get the economy off of fossil fuels.
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Photo: catchesthelight from Flickr via Creative Commons.
Welcome to Transition Staunton Augusta, a citizens’ group to help the city of Staunton and its surrounding area in Augusta County, Virginia, move beyond fossil fuels.
As the world runs out of cheap oil, we will need to make other arrangements.
In the new economy, globalization and massive scale are out and re-localization and human scale are in.
To get there, we will face huge challenges. But there will also be fantastic opportunities for those who are prepared.
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Events | erikcurren February 24, 2010 | 
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