Post Carbon Sweden (Stockholm)

In a debate on BBC World on Sunday the 18th May, Sweden’s Maud Olofsson continued to promulgate the myth of Sweden’s sustainability focus. Not inasmuch as what she said, but in what she did NOT... (read more)

According to today’s Swedish daily, Svenska Dagbladet, a new report from the Swedish Royal College of Technology, KTH, supports an earlier proposal that three national authorities receive grants of SEK 500 million (about 50 million... (read more)

Just to keep you up to date.... Oil commission. The report on how to break oil dependency was released amid a gush of, well, not very much. See earlier postings. Oil... (read more)

Daily newspaper slags off oil commission. Comments on the oil commission’s report have been very few in the Swedish media. Perhaps because it was released during the holiday period or because the issue is so complex,... (read more)

The Stockholm oilawareness meetup held its monthly meeting on a farm just outside Lerum. Local landowners got together with Oil awareness members and Post Carbon Sweden members to take a first look at relocalisation possibilities... (read more)

Digging into details to understand Sweden’s oil dependency   Most people who start to discover Peak Oil find themselves confronted by their lack of knowledge as to how things work in the society... (read more)

When is innovate the right strategy to use to address a business or organization challenge? If the challenge is similar to challenges in the past, the sensible thing is not to re-invent the wheel, but... (read more)

Retford was slow in coming to the realization that "business as usual" may not keep local citizens' standard of living at an acceptable level. As they saw energy prices hike many were concerned the local... (read more)

As he swipes his LETS card at the candy store English visitor John Oxley finds it hard to imagine his last visit to New York. Way back in 2007 the dollar was the only currency... (read more)

In my quest to find out how a standard of living could be produced for all sustainably, that is efficiently and with minimum impact on the environment and health, I visited PORENA again. The country... (read more)

Robert Bériault wants the world to wake up to Peal Oil. And he broadcasts the message not so much with graphs and figures, but with a message crafted from his own reality and heart. At... (read more)

http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/11/03.html#a1328 is the link to a list by Dave Pollard of companies and brands to avoid based on their environmental or social practices. he also suggests a few to support! Interesting reading.... (read more)

Many agree with the efficacy of the basic market economy model (goods’ and service’s prices are set by sellers, and increase with demand and decrease with competition) in generating a living standard However, many also... (read more)

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Robert Waldrop’s paper presented at the recent Community Solution conference offered ideas on how to set up local food systems. Based on his paper this article explores how to use our COGS currency or a... (read more)

Matt Simmons, financial advisor to the energy industry has released this presentation which spells out the urgency of the situation. http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/files/ENERGY%202050%20Policy%20Bri efing.pdf Energy production is at its maximum, exacerbated by hurricane Katrina. Demand is rising, and unless... (read more)

I just became aquainted with the Ecolanguage diagramming system developed by Lee A. Arnold. (See http://ecolanguage.net/). I wonder if anyone else has had the opportunity to explore its uses and specifically modelled for example, complementary... (read more)

just a plug for my e-book which I am releasing in a new version. it's eco-fiction or relocalization - fiction. Read more and download here: http://avbp.net/html/porena.html Max Wahlter, a journalist specializing in science and technology, decides... (read more)

one of my favourite innovation techniques comes from Win Wenger (www.winwenger.com) called Image Streaming. The techniques allow you to "visit" places which have solved a problem you are concerned with, and during your visit you... (read more)

Artist Allyson Lucca asks: If we could see today's world population as a small community of 100 people... what would it look like? And she illustrates it beautifully in sound and pictures. A reminder of... (read more)

As part of mobility week a Welsh Local authority offered car owners a full year's free use of public transport in return for them giving up their car for scrap. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4246678.stm) Some 30 people took... (read more)

Our group have been using various techniques to answer the question: how can communities offer a dignified standard of living as cheap energy depletes? One answer comes surprisingly from NASA. They are a competence centre with... (read more)

Huddinge, in Greater Stockholm, is the first municipality in Sweden to get its own urban walking map. The map will combat increased sedentary living and growing waistlines by encouraging people to get out and walk... (read more)