To prepare for the implications of pak oil, first we must understand the scope of the predicament.
The Local Motion Film Series continues its Summer Season showings this Thursday with A Crude Awakening, Life After the Oil Crash. This award-winning movie tells the story of peak oil, or the phenomenon where worldwide demand for oil begins to outstrip supply.
Unlike what some Pollyannas and business or politically-motivated persons would have us believe, bringing supply in line with increasing worldwide demand is not simply a matter of more drilling, baby. Our technology and bald geologic facts make clear that we wont be able to drill our way into turning a finite resource into an infinite one. Similarly, with almost every single thing we do, make, consume, or trade having something to do with fossil fuels along the way, from manufacture to transport,we cannot assume that “technology will save us”. Technology itself is dependent on fossil fuels. Read more »
A better prescription for downtowns, and its not a bitter pill!
Yesterday I woke up precipitously ill, with strange enough symptoms that, in a rarity for me, I went to the doctor. As a general rule I take a broadly preventative approach to health care focused mainly on diet, exercise, and the use of traditional herbs and roots, along with yoga and meditation.
I even gave birth at home using a midwife over fifteen years ago, when such a choice had even less support than it does today. Perhaps this arose from curiosity about long-standing health practices, or perhaps from something more mundane, such as a coping method after not having had insurance for most of my adult life. Read more »
Rob Hopkins' The Transition Handbook is available for sale online, or locally, at The Sacred Circle.
Funny to finally be tackling the question, What is Transition? after having been a part of this worldwide movement since last December, officially so since Transition Staunton Augusta became the 61st US group this past March.
In part because much of the work we do is self-evident in its intent, and covered in our About Us page, we did not feel a pressing need to remark on the more sweeping historic factors driving the imperatives behind the transition movement.
But consistently being a part of this movement, researching more and more, getting involved and talking to others both locally and in the online community, has now compelled us to address those factors in helping our own community learn more about why we’re doing this, and why we’re doing this now. Read more »
A clarion call, time to wake up.
In passing glances the occasional journalist points in the direction of us all, suggesting that it is not just rogue oil companies, in-bed government agencies, or an administration on auto-pilot who are responsible for the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. They suggest, perhaps a bit sheepishly, that two other culprits may be to blame here. Those two being you, and me.
But they don’t push it. It’s not part of the marketing plan.
Instead, we get finger pointing, show trials with execs taken to the C-Span woodshed, ritual firings, new policy proposals, and anger at the administration for lacking both a crystal ball and a magic wand. Deserved perhaps, but… Read more »
Events, Fossil Fuels | lindsaycurren August 18, 2010 | 
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