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The state of Transition

By Vicki Lipski | October 11, 2011

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By now, I assume that most people who read Transition Voice know about the Transition Towns movement. It’s been three years since Rob Hopkins’ seminal book, The Transition Handbook, was published, and put into words what many have sensed for a while: that things will never be the same again. Indeed, they're not. So, I thought that given some advancement in awareness among … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: farming, James Howard Kunstler, mike ruppert, relocalization, Rob Hopkins, Sharon Astyk, Transition Network, Transition US, Vicki Lipski

The joy of transition

By Vicki Lipski | March 28, 2011

Joy of Cooking

My copy of The Joy of Cooking was given to me, a bit the worse for wear, by an unenthusiastic cook of my mother’s generation. The kitchen-averse donor blithely hoped I would get more use out of it than she had. For years, it's sat on the shelf between my favorite cookbooks, America Cooks, edited by Ann Seranne for the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, and a folder … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Transition Tagged With: cooking, food, homesteading, Sharon Astyk, vegetarian

Unsung peak oil heroes of 2010

By Erik Curren | December 27, 2010

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Inspired by the Huffington Post's "Let's Hear It for the Unappreciated Heroes of 2010," we've compiled our own list of people who tried to help the world prepare for the imminent energy crisis by transitioning to an economy beyond oil. It goes without saying that the people we list below are tireless campaigners for a better world who deserve more attention. Some of them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: 2010 year in review, ASPO, Bianca Jagger, Dec 2010, Matt Simmons, Ralph Nader, Rob Hopkins, Sharon Astyk, Transition training, Transition US

Top 10 peak oil books of 2010

By Erik Curren | December 23, 2010

open book

Having read enough books with Hubbert curves and charts of barrels-per-day to last us until the second Bristol Palin administration, we're now into powerful stories that explore peak oil through suspense, romance and humanity. But so you won't feel guilty having so much fun at the expense of the whole premise of industrial civilization, we've thrown in some more fact-y tomes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: 2010 year in review, Dmitry Orlov, Glenn Beck, International Energy Agency, James Howard Kunstler, Post Carbon Institute, Robert Hirsch, Sharon Astyk

Top 10 peak oil stories of 2010

By Erik Curren | December 21, 2010

Gulf oil spill

The biggest stories of the year were financial. But you could say that the continuing Great Recession, the deficit debate, and more and more mortgage defaults were really stories of energy-driven economic crisis. This year also had plenty of big stories directly on energy, including some breakthroughs on peak oil. Here are our top picks. It's a highly subjective list; so … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: 2010 year in review, BP, Dec 2010, energy policy, International Energy Agency, James Howard Kunstler, Ralph Nader, Sharon Astyk, US military

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