Tag Archives: environment
You Are Here: The Oil Journey, by Post Carbon Institute
Changes in the landscape of energy may well trigger a whole new journey for humanity. The legendary actor and narrator Peter Coyote tells the story of our oil journey.
Chris Martenson’s Crash Course
The Crash Course is an excellent resource which will provide you with a baseline understanding of the economy so that you can better appreciate the risks that we all face. Videos are broken into chapters; watch the 45-minute Intro with your Circle, and consider meeting to watch the rest together. Click here for the Crash Course: http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
Transition US
Resilience Circles and Transition Initiatives often work closely together to build personal and community resilience. We share similar assumptions about the economy, the environment, and both the challenges and opportunities of this moment in history. Read this blog post by Chuck Collins at YES! Magazine for more. Webinar The Resilience Circle Network co-sponsored a webinar [...]
Reality TV’s “Stories of Stuff”
If you’ve missed reality shows like Pawn Stars, Storage Wars, and American Pickers, then you’ve missed a fascinating front in the expanding “new economy.”
The Sustainable World Sourcebook
Roadmap to a Healthy Future — the Essential Guidebook for the Concerned Citizen The SourceBook enables people to get up to speed quickly with what everyone needs to know, given what’s a stake now. It provides a sweeping overview of the major global issues we face, realistic solutions, and actions that we can take to [...]
The True Price of Gas: an eye opening video
The True Price of Gas With gas above $4 a gallon in many places, the Obama administration last week announced that it would tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to increase supply and ease prices. But the price we pay for gas already hides the real cost of of oil— costs we pay, not at the [...]
A Link Between Climate Change and Joplin Tornados? Never.
Check out and share this video mash-up of Bill McKibben’s Washington Post op-ed connecting extreme weather events around the globe.
Homework for Session 2: The Story of Stuff (Optional)
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
Homework for Session 5: Crash Course in Resilience, by Sarah Van Gelder (Optional)
From YES! Magazine, Fall 2010 We can strengthen our communities and ourselves to prepare for the uncertain world of failing economies, climate change, and oil depletion. To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. —Wendell Berry When we are no longer able to change a [...]
From Field to Skyscraper: Tomorrow’s Farms
Imagine a world in which we could grow our food by sustainable methods, produce and distribute enough for everyone, and repair the heavy ecological damage inflicted by today’s farms. Can we realize this vision if we continue farming as we have for the past 10,000 years? Dr. Dickson Despommier, author of The Vertical Farm (http://www.verticalfarm.com/), [...]
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