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...]
The joy of transition
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...]
Unsung peak oil heroes of 2010
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...]
Top 10 peak oil books of 2010
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...]
Top 10 peak oil stories of 2010
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...]