Transition Staunton Augusta -- Advocates for Clean Energy & Good Jobs, Staunton, VA
Building a 21st-century economy right here
We need to burn fewer fossil fuels and release less carbon to slow down climate change. And because of rising demand from developing nations and decreasing supply, 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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
