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Interview w/ Richard Heinberg
Permaculture and Peak Oil
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"The most localized, self-reliant communities will experience the least disruption." -Rex Weyler, Greenpeace.
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By George Friedman
Wed, August 13, 2008 - 8:01 PM
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Stratfor The Russian invasion of Georgia has not changed the balance of power in Eurasia. It simply announced that the balance of power had already shifted. The United States has been absorbed in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as potential conflict with Iran and a destabilizing situation in Pakistan. It has no strategic ground forces in reserve and is in no position to intervene on the Russian periphery. This, as we have argued, has opened a window of opportu... read more 
KIM SEVERSON
Fri, August 8, 2008 - 8:31 PM
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NY Times AT the end of the summer, the gastronomic organization called Slow Food USA will host a little party for more than 50,000 people in San Francisco. To get things ready, the mayor let the group dig up the lawn in front of City Hall and plant a quarter-acre garden. It will be the centerpiece of the festival, ambitiously named Slow Food Nation. Events will pop up all around the city over Labor Day weekend. Fifteen architects have volunteered to build elaborate pavi... read more 
By Andrew Levy
Fri, August 8, 2008 - 8:07 PM
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Times Online With gas and electricity bills soaring, energy firms are ploughing millions into cutting-edge technology. However, according to this man, they might be better off taking some tips from the Middle Ages. Peter Breuer has cut his gas bill from £20 to £5 a month by heating his house with a Hungarian stove based on a 14th century design. The 80-year-old grandfather says it is so effective at warming up his house that he has been able to switch off his centra... read more  by E.M. Forster (1909) I) THE AIR-SHIP Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and yet, at the moment that my meditation opens, this room is throbbing with melodious sounds. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk-that is all the furniture. And in the... read more 
by Sharon Astyk (sharonastyk.com/2008/06/26...vilization)
Sat, June 28, 2008 - 2:35 PM
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I don’t think there are a lot of people who, except in their most facetious tones, refer to me as anything along the lines of “Little Sharon-Sunshine.” And yet I actually consider myself a strong optimist, and by the standards of the peak oil movement, I certainly am. I believe that a way of life is very much on its way out, that the transition will be painful - more painful than it had ... read more 
Michael McCarthy, Vancouver Courier
Sat, June 28, 2008 - 12:07 PM
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Published: Friday, June 27, 2008 As the "peak" of global petroleum production rapidly approaches, EcoDensity may not be enough to save our oil-dependent society Gazing out his kitchen window in Kitsilano, Richard Balfour can see a clear picture of the future. We are running out of oil, says the founder of the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive, a group of local planners and community organizers concerned about this dilemma and looming crisis that will have... read more 
Our century-old industrial civilization and its luxurious standard of living may be about to end. The energy prime mover of this civilization, oil, is about to drastically dwindle in supply.
Wed, June 25, 2008 - 7:18 PM
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This dwindling oil supply in the face of escalating demand has rocketed up the price of oil. Ted Trainer (1997) predicted large and permanent increases in oil prices after the year 2000 due to increasing scarcity. In fact in March 2008, oil broke through the psychological ceiling of $100 a barrel, and ... read more 
Written by Jan Lundberg
Mon, June 23, 2008 - 4:11 PM
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Culture Change Letter #189, June 20, 2008 Need this be spelled out any more plainly? It is time to consider that the stage has been set for petroleum-induced famine. We have "innocently" accommodated rising population with greater and greater food production via technology and the profit motive. But now we have run out of room to grow, as biotechnology, for example, has severe limitations -- major ones being petroleum dependence and topsoil loss. The biggest... read more 
...hhmmm....What does the future hold as far as electronic music festivals go?
Sat, June 14, 2008 - 5:33 PM
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some random words and thoughts that come to mind are: -localized -smaller numbers -generators run on recycled veggie oil? pedal power? -shuttles (transport pods) -composting toilets Looking at the web site for Boom Fest in Portugal the impression i get is that its really on the cutting edge of sustainability (www.boomfestival.org) and ought to be the direction that the Coastal Tribes could use as a tem... read more 
Thursday, June 5, 2008 (SF Chronicle)
Mon, June 9, 2008 - 7:01 PM
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Kelly Zito,Matthew Yi, Chronicle Staff Writers California's water crisis intensified Wednesday as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared the first statewide drought in 17 years - setting the stage for drastic cutbacks and for diverting supplies from the relatively water-rich to the water-poor. Schwarzenegger called for a 20 percent reduction in water use statewide and urged local agencies to bolster conservation programs and to work with ... read more 
Some of you may not have heard of Codex Alimentarius. This is the prologue to the whole story.
Mon, June 2, 2008 - 3:38 PM
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This video made three years ago gives a very accurate summary: video.google.com/videoplay Those of you that have been reading my blogs about peak oil and following the signposts ought to have come to the realization that at some point global population is going to have to be reduced drastically in order to bring the numbers back into ecological stability w... read more  As oil and climate change drives up food prices around the world, Vancouverites will not be immune from the escalating squeeze on pocketbooks Michael McCarthy, Special to Vancouver Courier Published: Friday, May 09, 2008 At Dollar Foods on Commercial Drive, manager Quoc On is busy in the back supervising the arrival of a food shipment. The aisles are jammed with hungry customers, the lineup at the cashier is deep, and outside the front door boxes of fresh fruit and vegetables are pil... read more 
The Peak
Wed, May 7, 2008 - 7:20 PM
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It was 2003 when Jason O'Brien got sick of watching binners and crows rip through the large blue garbage container in the vacant lot outside his kitchen window -- the vacant lot underneath the SkyTrain on Commercial Drive. It couldn't be used for either residential or commercial space, but O'Brien had bigger outcomes in mind for the aesthetically displeasing piece of land anyway. Imagine if he could turn his backyard mess into a rehabilitation centre, a mechanism to reduce crim... read more 
well it took a while to get the coop built but the only material that i had to spend money on were the nails and screws, everything else was salvaged from pallets, old bed frames, and random plywood found on construction sites.
Sun, April 6, 2008 - 6:58 PM
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the chickens are rhode island reds that have been cross bred with another breed that is of unknown origin. this is my first time having laying hens so i have no idea what to expect. i mean apart from eggs. i just got them today from a woman that has 150 of them to g... read more 
Edmund Sanders and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
Fri, April 4, 2008 - 9:33 AM
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April 1, 2008 KHARTOUM, SUDAN -- For 15 years, he's been a "grocer" for Africa's destitute. But he's never seen anything like this. Pascal Joannes' job is to find grains, beans and oils to fill a food basket for Sudan's neediest people, from Darfur refugees to schoolchildren in the barren south. Lately Joannes has spent less time shopping and more time poring over commodity price lists, usually in disbelief. "White... read more 
Yesterday, before the gathering, i worked in the garden. Planted purple Russian, fingerlings and red chieftain potatoes, three different varieties of sugar snap peas and started indoors: two varieties of early tomatoes, parsley, scallions, Spanish onions, lettuce and broccoli.
Sat, March 8, 2008 - 5:48 PM
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Last night A gathering New moon "Planet Sooke" Energy flowing and circulating. Captain D said it best "..the physical and the sensual connection was amazing" Within this Body, the entity that animates i... read more 
We are a working group of the Fernwood Neighborhood Resource Group- Food Security Collective. Our mission is to connect gardeners without land and garden-owners who need helping hands for the purpose of growing food organically in Fernwood and Oaklands. At the moment we are only focused in this area of Victoria.
Mon, February 4, 2008 - 4:45 PM
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If you are a Garden Owner that for some reason won't be able to garden your existing plot or would like to see your backyard coverted to growing food organically or a Garden Seeker ... read more 
So in the beginning WS Jevons wrote a book about how coal consumption increased overall after J Watt introduced his new and improved coal fired stream engine. Even though it comsumed less coal on an earlier design. He called this Jevons Paradox.
Sat, January 26, 2008 - 10:32 AM
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In the present climate of an economically driven paradigm, people have argued that this is not a paradox at all because of the added factor of cost. Efficiency they argue brings down the cost of the resource because less of it is consumed. However ... read more 
no its not the name of the next dance party :-)
Thu, December 20, 2007 - 5:18 PM
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seriously though, just want to bring this to light again since MEC pulled all of their nalgene water bottles made from lexan off the shelves. and before people start getting into the hype like i know some of you do i just want to put the facts out there first. so, bisphenol a (BPA) is a synthetic chemical compound used in a wide range of consumer products classed by the fed gov't as a known hormone disrupter and carcinogen. Studies have li... read more 
came across some amazing designs via the intra web and have been studying the how's and why's and costs of such a project.
Tue, December 4, 2007 - 1:21 PM
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currently there are hundreds and thousands of containers just sitting in ports across north america. why? because the US is mostly importing stuff from abroad and is not much of an exporter these days... check out- www.lot-ek.com, www.quik-build.com and www.containercity.com if this interests you at all.
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