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Hurricane Harvey, We Yawn in your Direction

By Lindsay Curren | September 7, 2017

Hurricane Irma

And Irma, we don't really give a crap about you, either. Water, Water, Everywhere Twenty-seven TRILLION gallons of water dumped on Southeast Texas in six days? That's what the various reports say. And we say, "Big whoop!" Wild-Westy, pavement-obsessedy Houston essentially destroyed, molded, and steeped in a toxic stew from chemical plants gone kablooey while the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Energy Tagged With: activism, clean energy, climate change, community organizing, economy, energy policy, global climate disruption, local economy, pollution, relocalization

Inspiration for the burned-out localizer

By Erik Curren | June 1, 2015

Richard Heinberg

While Marx predicted that socialism would follow capitalism, Richard Heinberg predicts the next thing will be localism. "All roads appear to lead eventually to localism; the questions are: how and when shall we arrive there, and in what condition? (And, how local?)," Heinberg writes in his latest book, Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. (We received a review copy of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: climate change, economic crisis, peak oil, relocalization, Richard Heinberg, secession

Transition to a world made by hand

By Lindsay Curren | August 4, 2014

Peak oil commentator of Archdruid fame John Michael Greer, who foresees an inevitable if gradual collapse for industrial society, advises the equally doomstruck to "collapse now and avoid the rush." It's good advice and I've taken it to heart. Transition girl About six years ago I moved to the small (but widely-hailed) city of Staunton, Virginia. Shortly afterwards, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: food, gardening, Joel Salatin, local economy, local food, relocalization

Limits to growth: building a new society of revitalized communities

By Staff Reports | August 15, 2013

flower

Transition Voice is running the piece below by Nicole Foss to promote her upcoming speaking tour of the eastern United States with green entrepreneur Laurence Boomert on topics that we believe are urgent and important. -- Ed. We are approaching many limits to growth over the next several decades, and are consequently facing many challenges in our immediate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: economic crisis, Nicole Foss, relocalization

Transition Voice Holiday

By Lindsay Curren | 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: DIY, peak oil, relocalization, Stars of Peak Oil

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