Peak Oil
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The Woes of Industrial Agriculture
Our relationship with the earth changed fundamentally when we began practicing agriculture some ten thousand years ago. The transition from…
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Cheap Oil Begets the Centralization of Power
The oil age allowed us to do the wrong things with unprecedented speed and efficiency. Oil is an almost ideal…
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To the Last Drop: Canada’s Dirty Oil Sands (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61X4IQqnmd0 Part I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8m5PFuYRSI Part II Residents of one Canadian town are engaged in a David and Goliath-style battle over…
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Keystone PipeLIES Exposed
Keystone PipeLIES Exposed (Duration: 23 minutes) This film, produced by the Center for Media and Democracy, debunks the claims of…
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What a Day! We Declared 1M Hectares ‘Gasfield Free’ (Australia)
My name is Anne Kennedy. I’m a farmer from Coonamble in north-west NSW, Australia. We had a big day here…
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Home-Scale Conversion of Plastics to Oil
by Lesley White A highly-promising development out of Japan: a corporation called Blest has developed a home-scale plastic to oil…
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Fractured Country – An Unconventional Invasion (video)
Fractured Country — An Unconventional Invasion (Duration: 40 minutes) This is madness. This is sickening (and not just figuratively). It…
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10 Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society
The best way to feel hopeful for the future is to prepare for it. The best way to feel hopeful…
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Call for Water, Not Gas (Australia)
Coal Seam Gas (‘fracking’) in the Pillaga Forest, NSW, Australia It was revealed last week that groundwater has been poisoned…
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A “Special Period” in the Mid-Hudson Valley Feeds the New York Local Food Renaissance (USA)
Local squash, like the ones pictured here, are frozen and consumed through the winter by Farm to Table Co-Packers. The…
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Holmgren’s ‘Crash on Demand’: Be Careful What You Wish For
Originally published on TransitionNetwork.org It is a rare occurence that I disagree with David Holmgren. One of my heroes, and…
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Recharting Collapseniks
Only a few are willing to risk arrest for the sake of an utopian outcome. Ted ‘The Unabomber’ Kaczynski obviously…
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