This post was supposed to be a review of The Transition Handbook. This post was also supposed to be a giveaway. But then my computer exploded. (Yes, it was a PC. And it didn’t so much explode as whimper pitifully and fade to black.)
Fortunately, I’m pretty good about backing up my computer on a regular [...]
Last week I wrote a bit about resilience, what it means, and why people are talking about it so much these days. If you’re anything like me, you nodded, said “I get it, I get it…” and immediately moved on to the next obvious question: “What makes a community resilient?”
According to the Transition approach, the [...]
Alright, I confess. I’m a big, giant Olympics addict. I love the intensity and the drama. I could pass on the constant nationalism and medal count lists, and I’ll probably be considered un-American for saying this, but I’m really over Apolo Ohno. Because of the Olympics, my TV has been on way more than it [...]
Welcome to the next installment of Transition Friday. Transition Tuesday would be nice and alliterative, but would require me to get my act together on Tuesdays, which isn’t going to happen.
If sustainability was the buzzword for 2009, resilience is it for 2010. That was my thought at the beginning of the year, and I was [...]
One of the (too many) books I’ve been reading lately is The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins. I read it as part of the Hyperlocavore book club, which turned out to be really fantastic. (The chat logs from our weekly sessions are still available, although the conversations have mostly wrapped up.) The book was a [...]
The framing was right.
… even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy-efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future -– because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy…
The call to action was admirable.
Meanwhile, China is not waiting to [...]
Last night I found myself looking at my dinner and feeling pretty good about my choices. Healthy, homemade, frugal and tasty. Not to mention that it’s actual food. When you live by yourself it can be awfully easy to fall into a diet of beverages and snacks. I’m trying to be good about cooking for [...]
Meandering through the newsosphere (can I call mainstream media the newsosphere if I access it online?), I stumbled upon two facts which, in and of themselves, were both unsurprising and not terribly interesting.
American citizens have an abiding faith in technology, more so than any other country in the world.
Americans don’t believe in climate change.
Individually, each [...]
Struck speechless just in time for Wordless Wednesday.
Sometimes I wear myself out worrying about the big picture. I know I’m not the only one who does this. Just last week, Psychologists for Social Responsibility warned that if we do not see dramatic political action on climate change by the end of this year, there is a risk that “millions of people will [...]
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