Lindsay Curren — Transition Voice

Peak oil, national security, and you

By Lindsay Curren October 8, 2010

LIVE REPORT For a girl who barely knows how to hoist and aim our double barreled shotgun (and who can only hit the broadside of a barn door), I get such an inexplicable kick out of hearing about and talking about peak oil as a key national security issue. Perhaps it just seems so obvious to me, and an easy sell for those who might otherwise be resistant to accepting and acting on peak oil. Beyond the obvious issue of dependence on foreign oil, and China's ascendance to energy-hoghood, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: ASPO, clean energy hawks, national security, nuclear power, peak oil

Post Carbon Reader Session

By Lindsay Curren October 7, 2010

Sitting in on the Post Carbon Reader session was particularly exciting, just learning about all the thoughtful, learned individuals who contributed to the reader. This session included former Huntington Beach, California councilwoman Debbie Cook, who moderated and spoke briefly on how to create successes in local government (we'll have more from her later). Daniel Lerch, the Post Carbon Institute's Program Director spoke about the process of bringing these folks together for the book and for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: ASPO, Chris Martenson, health, peak oil, Post Carbon Institute

Live blogging from ASPO conference 2010

By Lindsay Curren October 7, 2010

Hi Readers, Geeks like us have an inordinate amount of fun listening to people talking about peak oil not just for one day, but for days on end. That's why we're at the Association for the Study of Peak Oil Conference 2010, in Washington D.C. If you're equally geeky, you can follow our adventures here by tuning into our live blogging over these three days. Join our Facebook and Twitter feeds (hashtag #peakoil2010) for our microblogging updates, and this page for longer stories from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ASPO, community organizing, conservation, John Michael Greer, peak oil, relocalization

Here comes the sun

By Lindsay Curren October 5, 2010

Jimmy Carter with solar panels at the White House circa mid 70s.

Even small gestures have a measurable impact. And symbolism counts. That's why it was so refreshing to hear that President Obama took to heart the pleas of three young women from 350.org and agreed to re-install solar panels on the White House. President Jimmy Carter was the first US president to adopt solar panels, and then Ronald Reagan removed them. (Now that wasn't very morning in America, was it?) Well, solar panels are back, and let's hope they stay, because a prominent example … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: clean energy, DIY, global climate disruption

Editor’s note: Peak oil ready for the mainstream?

By Lindsay Curren October 3, 2010

Lindsay Curren, Editor, Transition Voice Magazine.

Welcome to the premiere issue of Transition Voice, the new online magazine covering the predicaments of peak oil, climate change, economic crisis, and the the Transition movement's response. Transition Voice is a project of Transition Staunton Augusta, the 61st Transition initiative in the United States, located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. But that's just where we live and work—the focus of the magazine is national and international. Our eco-online communications firm, Curren … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: climate change, community organizing, conservation, peak oil, relocalization

It takes a village to raise the world

By Lindsay Curren October 2, 2010

Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the worldwide Transition Town Network. Photo: Stephen Prior

For a guy who set out in 2005 to help his small Irish village move toward an economy beyond fossil fuels and ended up spawning a world wide movement that in five short years has lead to 323 Transition groups around the world, Rob Hopkins sure is humble and unassuming. We sat down recently with the no-fly-zone leader for an interview via Skype straight to the beating heart of the Transition Network nerve center to find out just where TN is now in its development, and what makes Hopkins tick. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: climate disruption, community organizing, DIY, Oct 2010, peak oil, permaculture, Totnes, United Kingdom

Interview: Matt Simmons

By Lindsay Curren October 1, 2010

Matt Simmons, July 2010. Photo: Courtesey of the Ocean Energy Institute.

When we hatched the idea this summer of starting Transition Voice as the first online magazine devoted to regular coverage of peak oil, we knew immediately that Matt Simmons was the first expert we wanted to interview. Those familiar with the subject will know why. That's why we were so glad when Simmons took a chance on our fledgling effort, and agreed to talk to us for our first issue. We spoke by phone with Matt in late July from his newly formed Ocean Energy Institute in Maine, where … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: clean energy, clean energy hawks, construction, interview, Oct 2010, oil spill, peak oil, Stars of Peak Oil

Post Carbon Reader

By Lindsay Curren September 25, 2010

Go back to the future with the Post Carbon Institute's Post Carbon Reader out this October on the tenth. The reader is released on the same day as climate awareness website 350.org's 10/10/10 Day of Action. Order the reader online @ the UC Press website. The book ships on 10/10/2010. Now get cracking reading this thing! P.S.—if you like writing, please feel free to submit a review of the Reader to Transition Voice by contacting us through our Contact Us page. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: clean energy, global climate disruption, local food, Oct 2010, peak oil, permaculture, relocalization, Richard Heinberg

Everybody’s fault but mine

By Lindsay Curren September 20, 2010

COMMENTARY In passing glances the occasional journalist points in the direction of us all, suggesting that it is not just rogue oil companies, in-bed government agencies, or an administration on auto-pilot who are responsible for the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. They suggest, perhaps a bit sheepishly, that two other culprits may be to blame here. Those two being you, and me. But they don’t push it. It’s not part of the marketing plan. Instead, we get finger pointing, show … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Oct 2010, oil spill, peak oil

Readers and authors talk

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Ed Johnson on Roundup of distressing climate news » Thank you all for your comments and commitments. I too sense this with out all the research backgrou...
Lee Samelson on The climate change mountaintop » It seems like the stages occur in reverse order for climate hawks Climate hawks or climate activists...
Steve on For sale, habitable planet, too late » Doug, I am in a similar place to you, I think. I have probably never really faced up to the reality ...