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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

A homegrown remedy to tame American empire

By Erik Curren | January 26, 2015

U.S. empire

There's lots of talk of localization or re-localization in the Transition movement and among environmentalists and economic justice advocates generally. And for good reason. Today's global economy where big corporations, with security provided by the United States military, ship plastic crap from Chinese sweatshops thousands of miles to consumers around the world who don't need … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: American empire, Civil War, John Michael Greer, Kirkpatrick Sale, relocalization, secession, U.S. global dominance

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

Five reasons why government shutdown points to breakup of U.S.

By Erik Curren | October 11, 2013

The Union is dissolved poster

Despite all the talk, the federal government shutdown hasn't greatly affected daily life for most Americans so far. Some have been hit hard, especially federal employees, those receiving certain benefit payments, and tourists planning to visit the Smithsonian or a national park. But as apocalypses go, a couple weeks without "non-essential" federal services has been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: breakup of United States, Occupy Wall Street, relocalization, secession movements, Tea Party

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