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Peak Wall Street coming this year?

By May 17, 2013
Hindenberg crash

While I focus primarily on climate change, the problem is so interwoven with the machinery of the global economy that I end up absorbing a lot of economic information as a byproduct. Lately this financial chatter has been particularly hair-raising, and as much as it pains me to be the constant alarmist, I’d be remiss if I saw danger on the horizon and didn’t warn people. So here goes: There’s a high likelihood we will experience a large market correction (read: crash) this year, … [Read more...]

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Three thousand actions and counting

By May 13, 2013
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The annual Transition Challenge is in motion! This month, thousands of people across the country are taking action to build community resilience, enhance local food systems, and reduce energy and water consumption. Over 3,000 actions have already been registered, bringing us one step closer to our goal of 5,000 actions. For those of you that have yet to take the plunge and sign up your action(s), what are you waiting for? If you missed the recent Transition Challenge Tools and Tips … [Read more...]

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Shameless birthday fundraising plug

By May 10, 2013
Transition Voice Publisher Erik Curren.

Today is Transition Voice publisher Erik Curren's birthday. I thought that was reason enough to make one of our occasional plugs for donations to help support the work at Transition Voice. Talk about one of the hardest working guys in the news business. In spite of the fact that Erik has already entered the new economy, holding down five different jobs simultaneously — he's a web designer, English teacher at a local college, on his town's City Council, a PR consultant, and a writer for a … [Read more...]

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A world without landfills? It’s closer than you think

By April 26, 2013
Nohra Padilla at a recycling facility

Two recipients of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize are working to abolish the practice of sending trash to landfills and incinerators. And the idea is catching on. There is a growing global movement to significantly reduce the amount of trash we produce as communities, cities, countries and even regions. It’s called the zero-waste movement, and it received a major boost this week as two of its leaders were awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. Nohra Padilla and … [Read more...]

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Permaculture works

By April 19, 2013
nasturtium

Based on the latest maps from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it appears that the eastern third of the country should be in good shape this year insofar as rainfall is concerned. For someone saddled with completely infertile soil, that’s good news. In my opinion, it’s bad enough to have to deal with unending amendment of the soil, without having to feel guilty because I’m watering all the time! I just closed the spigot on my rain barrel last week, with hopes … [Read more...]

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For health, smarts and resilience, drink your beer

By April 8, 2013
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Anybody interested in buying more food from local farmers and learning how to cook and preserve it at home knows that taking control of what goes in your mouth is a powerful way to get healthier. But if you're trying to eat more organic kale, more free-range eggs and more pastured beef, you may also be trying to cut back on booze to stiffen up that beer belly or shrink those love handles. Well, if you don't think about drinking more IPA as the high road to a healthy body and even a sharper … [Read more...]

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The happy ending

By March 13, 2013
Sandy Stops Our Shopping

Below we present the first chapter of The End of the World by Reverend Billy, leader of the Church of Stop Shopping. Sparing neither fire nor brimstone, the good Reverend preaches sinners in the hands of an angry Earth. He calls on humanity to change its evil ways before the final judgment, inspiring the congregation to a faith that, after Hurricane Sandy, will not allow any of us to sit on the sidelines any longer. Can we get an Amen, brothers and sisters?  -- Ed. It was a … [Read more...]

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My post-electric washing machine: The Deindustrial 2020

By December 20, 2012
clothes on line

Introducing my post-electric washing machine, which I call the Deindustrial 2020. It’s of the future, not the past – although it does look rather like the old-style, Medieval 1450. It was made for only $2. As you should be able to see from the picture, the Deindustrial 2020 is made up of two high-tech elements, a black plastic tub (which I salvaged from the side of the road), and an old crutch (which I purchased for $2). With these two pieces of technology I was able to construct a … [Read more...]

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Transition Voice Holiday

By December 14, 2012
Homeless-Santa-Arctic-Oil-Drilling

'Tis the season when peak oilers everywhere join in a chorus of reflection that goes something like, "Why, why, why?" For people intimately tuned in to connecting the dots between the oil driven economy, consumer excess, and a planetary ecosystem under assault from the cancerous growth paradigm, the host of end-of-year festivities can be touched with more than a little melancholy. In some cases it's touched with down right venom. And each year I step in to the fray with your guide to a … [Read more...]

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Letter from India: It takes a village

By December 13, 2012
Gurgaon office tower

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant, I should point to India. - Max Mueller Returning to the world's second-biggest nation after seven years away, it's clear to me that the two distinctive features of modern India, overpopulation and globalization, are … [Read more...]

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