Ohio Peak Oil Action

New Sharon Astyk Book!!! A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis On American Soil by Sharon Astyk Once we could fill our grocery carts with cheap and plentiful food, but not anymore. Cheap food has gone the way of... (read more)

Change Your Fuel - Change the World Just watched the trailer for this film. Looking forward to the rest... Fuel In theaters: November 14, 2008 Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues will... (read more)

Association for Regenerative Culture Continental Bioregional Blog Bloomington (IN) Permaculture Guild ... (read more)

Green Jobs for a Green Economy BIOREGIONAL ORGANIZATION A Resource Index for Bioregions (from Chapter 14, Strategies for an Alternative Nation, Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, by Bill Mollison)   A bioregional association is an association of the residents of a... (read more)

Michigan's Future Conf. Sustainability Conference Video Presentations Middleville (Pilot) Grand Rapids Michigan Organizer Join Local Future Paths to Sustainability Conference on Michigan's Future - Nov. 14-16, 2008 Crystal Mountain Resort, Thompsonville, MI "The Conference of Michigan's Future: Energy, Economy & Environment" looks at the challenges of the monetary crisis and the oil crisis and proposes realistic, job... (read more)

Crisis Shopping: Food Storage When You Haven’t Been Storing Food Sharon Astyk October 2nd, 2008 Several readers have asked me to do a piece on what to do if you have been procrastinating about food storage, but plan to... (read more)

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Plan C: cooperate, conserve, curtail.... Plan C: Individual and Community Survival Strategies for the Energy Crisis The Fifth Annual US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions October 31 - November 2, 2008 Oakland... (read more)

Andy Rowell at the Oil Change blog - "Climate change fuelling refugee crisis" (June 17th) ... "the number of refugees is at a record high, fuelled in part by climate change which is causing conflicts around... (read more)

A community garden photo by "sbcg08" --- A Wall Street Journal video clip about urban farming [via Wild Green Yonder] Most of the video revolves around one guy who farms neighbourhood lawns in Colorado. A "No Impact Man" blog... (read more)

Elizabeth Douglass in The Los Angeles Times - "Why The Oil Crunch May Grow Worse" "Peak Oil: The ‘When’ Doesn’t Matter" -- What I appreciate about this article is - a. The tagline about how "The ‘When’ Doesn’t Matter"... (read more)

Robert Weissman on the G8 agreement on global warming - "Dragged down most of all by the anti-leadership of the United States, the G8 announced a commitment to a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions by... (read more)

Andy Rowell - "Oil Price 'May Hit $200 A Barrel'" "Do you remember the days when oil was only $100? Although there has been speculation in recent days concerning the oil price, one of the... (read more)

A YouTube video "My response to an email circulating to '300 million people!' about boycotting major gas companies - I'd just like to take a moment and comment on the flaw of this plan."... --- In this video Cassandra... (read more)

Sharon Astyk on what we can gain from home-grown food - "- Better Food - Fresher, better tasting, straight off the plant food money literally cannot buy! - Better Health - More nutrition in just picked vegetables,... (read more)

"I used to worry for my grandchildren. Now there is a fairly high probability that I will experience the more severe effects of climate change at first hand." - Jeremy ------ Matt Price (of Environmental Defence) and Allan... (read more)

George M. on why we shouldn't ask others to "save the planet" - "One psychological response to climate change is to find language and images that create distance - to suggest that it will affect... (read more)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98rXCoEk6vE http://www.bikeforest.com/?p=77 http://www.blogto.com/arts/2007/12/vidto_pedal_power_vs_toronto_police/ http://www.ecofriend.org/images/bicytaxi.jpg Bike machines can be semi-motorized, they can be enclosed (rather than leaving riders exposed to the wind and what not), and they can be collaboratively peddled; we have a lot of options. ------ Update... (read more)

Kurt Cobb on services, assumptions, and oil depletion - "Unfortunately, most people, especially those in North America, equate their cars with transportation. They may also equate air-conditioners with a cool environment in summer.... (read more)

I haven't posted much to this blog lately but I've been very active on my other blog at http://kjpermaculture.blogspot.com/ Here's a few of the topics considered: ... (read more)

Franchises take away and obstruct localization, and Wal-Mart is at the forefront of this franchising and the anti-localization that it entails. The documentary Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price addresses these issues (among... (read more)

Part of Luz: Girl of the Knowing - Episode 4               by Claudia Dávila ("Fran") (in Toronto) Claudia's work is important because she's grappling with oil & gas depletion in a fresh way -- a... (read more)

A version of a speech given at the December 8th International Demonstration on Climate Change in London. This version is much longer and slightly edited. I’ve also added web links, as well as reading... (read more)