Following on from Techno-Peasant’s eye-opening, but ultimately realistic article about living outside of civilization, I thought this would be a perfect time to publish Sharon Astyk’s brilliant list of “100 Things You Can Do to Get Ready for Peak Oil“. Lists rarely cut it when looking at real life solutions or providing effective advice: these [...] Read more »
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‘A Farm for the Future’ is the BBC’s recent excellent documentary on Peak Oil and its effects on farming, leading to the promotion of Permaculture (all of which happened at 8pm on a Friday evening, so a good visible slot for the masses!). I’ve included some blurb from Chris Vernon of The Oil Drum written [...] Read more »
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Posted in collapse on Mar 28th, 2009 No Comments »
by Chuck Burr, at CultureChange
The next ten years will not look like the last ten. They will be a shock to many people. Theories such as petrocollapse will become mainstream; the first world will begin to look like the second and third world.
Industrialized Countries Back Slide
If you want to see what the next [...] Read more »
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Posted in sustainability on Mar 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Earth Hour.
Worried about climate change? Recognise that your lifestyle is damaging the earth’s life support system? Need some way to show that you care, that doesn’t involve giving up anything, any hard work, or any challenge to the status quo and those who run things? Turning your lights off for one hour will not [...] Read more »
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
Here’s the Unsuitablog’s response to another farce going on this Saturday – WWF’s ‘Earth Hour‘:
Apparently, on March 28, millions of people will be turning off their lights for an hour, for Earth Hour. Yes, a whole hour when all sorts of really green places, like Las Vegas, New York and San Francisco, will be flicking [...] Read more »
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The time of the G20 summit in London approaches, where the leaders of the 22 nations that make up the vast majority of world GDP are meeting to discuss the economic crisis as well as free trade, climate change and other current crucial issues. As per usual, a series of counter-protests have been organised by [...] Read more »
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To celebrate 21 years of anti-capitalist financial innovation
Radical Routes and Rootstock
present a one-day conference and workshops.
How can we protect our remaining social and ecological resources from the convulsions of capitalism?
Places are free, but booking is essential.
Click here to download a booking form.
Keynote Speaker
Paul Mason , economics editor of the [...] Read more »
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Another great article from Jan Lundberg, at CultureChange.
Personal cars must be outlawed. Auto manufacturing jobs are disappearing in the U.S. anyway, so why allow imported cars to drain our wallets and worsen the balance of trade? This rudderless nation needs to veer toward sense and wake up from the manufactured “American Dream,” and find healing [...] Read more »
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by Douglas Rushkoff, at Arthur magazine.
With any luck, the economy will never recover.
In a perfect world, the stock market would decline another 70 or 80 percent along with the shuttering of about that fraction of our nation’s banks. Yes, unemployment would rise as hundreds of thousands of formerly well-paid brokers and bankers lost their jobs; [...] Read more »
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Posted in useful media on Mar 17th, 2009 No Comments »
