Resources

[Cherie Brown]

Please post any links or info here related to the issues of energy resource decline, climate change, Transition, etc....

[Cherie Brown]

A talk by Chad Hellwinckel at TEDxKnoxville in November 2011 on peak oil and the importance of local food systems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2jwYy-RxDo

[Cherie Brown]

"There's No Tomorrow."  This is a great 30-minute video that explains the peak oil situation and its impact on food systems, manufacturing, and the global economy.  It also discusses alternative energy sources and why these don't represent a global "fix" for the situation. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOMWzjrRiBg

[Brian Miller]

That is an excellent eye opening video. I'd suggest the book "The Wealth of Nature: economics as if survival mattered" by John Michael Greer. A timely updating of E.F. Shumacher's "Small is Beautiful". Updated in the sense that it addresses peak oil, climate change and the myth of continued economic expansion.

Thanks for starting this group.

Brian

[Katie Stokes Greer]

If you are up for reading a 60+ page report, there's some really good information from this economic study by Synpase for the Civil Society Institute. Their energy transition scenario would save us $83 billion nationally, compared to energy business as usual: http://www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/synapsereport/

[Cherie Brown]

Info about Transition Towns as an "official" movement.

Transition Network - news, training, info on where Transition is happening

Transition Culture - blog

Transition US - training and info for Transition in the United States; also lists towns with their official Transition status

I also found this to be a good synopsis of the Transition Towns movement:

Eartheasy on Transition Towns

MOVIES:

In Transition 1.0 - Free to watch on Vimeo

In Transition 2.0 - Trailer only, on Vimeo  (DVD can be ordered here)

[karl popper]

i just picked it up from the library, thanks for the suggestion Brian.
 
Brian Miller said:

That is an excellent eye opening video. I'd suggest the book "The Wealth of Nature: economics as if survival mattered" by John Michael Greer. A timely updating of E.F. Shumacher's "Small is Beautiful". Updated in the sense that it addresses peak oil, climate change and the myth of continued economic expansion.

Thanks for starting this group.

Brian

[karl popper]

An excellent film,  in which the problem of unlimited growth is explored.
 
Cherie Brown said:

"There's No Tomorrow."  This is a great 30-minute video that explains the peak oil situation and its impact on food systems, manufacturing, and the global economy.  It also discusses alternative energy sources and why these don't represent a global "fix" for the situation. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOMWzjrRiBg

[Brian Miller]

Great, let me know how you like it.

karl popper said:

i just picked it up from the library, thanks for the suggestion Brian.
 
Brian Miller said:

That is an excellent eye opening video. I'd suggest the book "The Wealth of Nature: economics as if survival mattered" by John Michael Greer. A timely updating of E.F. Shumacher's "Small is Beautiful". Updated in the sense that it addresses peak oil, climate change and the myth of continued economic expansion.

Thanks for starting this group.

Brian

[Brian Miller]

Many of you may have already read this excellent rticle from the Post-Carbon folks. But if you haven't it really hits at the core of what a transition struggle is about to me. Not so much being able to change the trajectory of climate change or peak oil but how to shape the world that comes after: competition or cooperation.

http://www.postcarbon.org/article/1057153-our-cooperative-darwinian...

Brian