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Transition Handbook

Kris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:08:38 -0800

Start: 2008-11-23 18:45

End: 2008-11-23 20:30

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Living Lightly: Changing Joyously to Achieve Sustainability

Kris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:06:54 -0800

Start: 2008-11-22 09:00

End: 2008-11-22 17:00

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Gardeners and Global Warming

Kris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:05:02 -0800

Start: 2008-11-18 14:00

End: 2008-11-18 17:00

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Film: FLOW at Michigan Theatre

Kris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:03:10 -0800

Start: 2008-11-16 18:45

End: 2008-11-16 21:30

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Film: A Passion For Sustainability

Kris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:01:22 -0800

Start: 2008-11-10 19:00

End: 2008-11-10 21:00

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Transition Handbook

Kris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:59:16 -0800

Start: 2008-11-09 18:30

End: 2008-11-09 20:30

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Edible Landscaping with Fritz Haeg

Kris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:56:46 -0800

Start: 2008-11-08 10:00

End: 2008-11-08 12:00

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Sustainable Michigan newsletter Nov 2008

Kris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:52:30 -0800

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Teleconference with Michael Brownlee of Boulder Co 8PM EST

Kris — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:29:40 -0700

Start: 2008-10-28 20:00

End: 2008-10-28 21:00

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Transition Handbook

Kris — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:22:56 -0700

Start: 2008-10-26 18:30

End: 2008-10-26 21:00

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Bioneers Conference

Kris — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:15:16 -0700

Start: 2008-10-17 09:00

End: 2008-10-19 18:00

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A Passion for Sustainability

Kris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:25:19 -0700

Start: 2008-11-03 19:00

End: 2008-11-03 21:00

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Transition Handbook

Kris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:23:13 -0700

Start: 2008-10-12 18:30

End: 2008-10-12 20:30

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Solar Energy: Saved by the Sun

Kris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:21:37 -0700

Start: 2008-10-06 19:19

End: 2008-10-06 21:19

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Sustainable Michigan newsletter Oct 2008

Kris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:18:18 -0700

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Sustainable michigan newsletter Sep 2008

Kris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:16:59 -0700

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Sustainable Michigan newsletter Aug 2008

Kris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:14:46 -0700

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Sustainable Michigan newsletter Jul 2008

Kris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:11:07 -0700

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Sustainable Michigan newsletter Jun 2008

Kris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:10:05 -0700

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Sustainable Michigan newsletter May 2008

Kris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:07:51 -0700

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Sustainable Michigan newsletter Apr 2008

Kris — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:04:54 -0700

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Resiliency planning

Toban Black — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:08:29 -0700

Hi everyone,

I'm starting this forum thread for discussion about resiliency planning. As some of you here in London, Ontario (in Canada) will know, this Tuesday there was a meeting about the approach that Post-Carbon London will take to implementing that framework -- which we will be doing.

A few possible discussion topics that come to mind:
- How to approach this framework in London
- The types of groups and organizations we should focus on networking with
- Thoughts on how those groups and organizations should be approached about this

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In a separate post to this thread I'll try to sum up (from memory) some points that were raised at the meeting

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I have cross-posted this to the Coordinator HUB, where coordinators from other groups on Relocalize.net can respond. (This is an experiment that we haven't tried in this group.) And I have cross-posted this to a few nearby groups (which is unusual for us) -- plus the "Vancouver area" group (since someone from that group has said that they would like posts from our area).

Vancouver Area Relocalisation Network

While we consume fossil fuels ...

Toban Black — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:21:23 -0700

Andy Rowell at the Oil Change blog -
"Climate change fuelling refugee crisis" (June 17th)
... "the number of refugees is at a record high, fuelled in part by climate change which is causing conflicts around the world." ...

CBC journalism -
"Diseases, heat-related deaths likely to spike from climate change: report" (July 31st)
[via Red Jenny]

Andy Rowell at the Oil Change blog -
"Antarctica: Climate change exposes 'toxic soup'" (May 9th)
"One of the ways climate change will affect us will be in ways we do not expect. We may have climate models, but we cannot predict all the horrors that lie in store." ...

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Andy Rowell at the Oil Change blog -
"Airline emissions 'far higher than previous estimates'" (May 6th)
... "an unpublished study by the world’s leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than estimates suggest" ...

Matthew McDermott at the Treehugger blog -
"It’s Not You, It’s Me: 33% of China’s CO2 Emissions From Export Manufacturing" (August 5th)
... "33% of China’s emissions come from manufacturing goods intended for overseas sale" ...
(A previous post about this - "‘Chinese’ emissions" )

CBC journalism -
"Globalization being undone by high oil costs: CIBC" (May 27th)
"The high price of energy is undercutting the advantages of globalization by raising transportation costs so much that they are forcing businesses to look closer to home, says a CIBC World Markets report." ...

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Andy Rowell at Oil Change -
"Shell seals $4 billion Iraq deal" (September 10th)
"After a 35 year absence Shell has become the first western oil company to land a major deal with the government in Baghdad since the invasion of the country five years ago." ...
(A related post - "Imperialism and fossil fuels")

AP journalism -
"Exxon Mobil Has Biggest Profit Ever At $11.68B" (July 31st)

BBC journalism -
"Oil prices boost Shell's results" (July 31st )

Emily Murgatroyd at DeSmogBlog -
"US oil company revenue higher than the GDP of Canada" (July 31st)

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At my blog -
A list of related links and a little commentary -
"Global warming and other energy & carbon -related crises — as well as associated interests"

Toban Black
(http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=563)

Advocates for Local Living - ALL (Fernie, B.C.)

Local food

Toban Black — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:09:45 -0700

A community garden photo by "sbcg08"

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A Wall Street Journal video clip about urban farming [via Wild Green Yonder]
Most of the video revolves around one guy who farms neighbourhood lawns in Colorado.

A "No Impact Man" blog post about urban rooftop farming (which definitely couldn't "save the world")
The post includes photos and some web links

A blog post from Joshua about chickens in urban backyards [via Red Jenny]
Some of the post is about legislation issues

An article by Karen Von Hahn (in The Globe & Mail) -
‘People Are Looking For Roots’
What I found interesting about this one is the author's commentary on the culture (e.g. the nostalgia) around local foods

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A couple of related posts at my blog:
- Home-grown food
- Suburban farmland in the United States

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Community garden photo from Groundwork Lawrence

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Toban Black
(http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=284)

Carp Ridge Ecowellness Centre (CREWC)

It's time to cut our ties to fossil fuels

Toban Black — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:26:44 -0700

Elizabeth Douglass in The Los Angeles Times - "Why The Oil Crunch May Grow Worse"
"Peak Oil: The ‘When’ Doesn’t Matter"

What I appreciate about this article is -
a. The tagline about how "The ‘When’ Doesn’t Matter" -- a message that is repeated at the end of the article (and at the end of the exerpts quoted here)
b. How the article clearly communicates the concept of world peak oil. (See the start of the exerpts below.)

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Exerpts -

Some "dread" "that the world has found all the easy-to-reach oil, and the daily supply of the essential black goo will fall further and further behind escalating global demand."

'As much as you’re uncomfortable with today’s oil prices, these are going to be the good old days,' oil expert Robert L. Hirsch told a recent ... gathering of policymakers and environmentalists."

"'There are more and more people who believe that oil supply prospects are not very optimistic,' said Fatih Birol, chief economist at the Paris-based International Energy Agency."

"Birol counts himself among those who believe the world has reached at least 'a peak of easily accessible oil.' That alone is cause for worry, because many economies are built around the assumption that oil would continue to be cheap and plentiful.

Birol is leading a groundbreaking reassessment of the worldwide outlook for oil supplies, investment and production that many believe will deliver bad news when it is released in November.

"Tyson Slocum, director of the energy program at Public Citizen, a Washington-based consumer group, doesn’t care when the peak will come.

'We should be planning as though we’re there,' he said, 'because from a national interest standpoint, from an economic standpoint and from an environmental standpoint, our dependence on oil, whether it comes from California or Saudi Arabia, is unsustainable.'"

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The rest of the article is OK.
It's misleading, however, when the author suggests that there isn't extensive analysis and documentation to back up concerns about impending or present world peak oil.

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Related writing from Richard Heinberg -
Oil Price Falls! Peak Oil a Non-Problem! (July 30th)
..."The fundamental cause of the recent oil price spike has not gone away. Global demand for oil is still increasing; supply isn’t."...

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Toban Black
(http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=295)

Ishmael - Book Discussion Group

Naiemah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:16:50 -0700

Start: 2008-09-14 19:14

End: 2008-09-14 22:14

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Kilowatt Ours

Naiemah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:10:37 -0700

Start: 2008-09-08 19:00

End: 2008-09-08 22:00

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Off Grid community - and the Zero Energy Home

Naiemah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:08:26 -0700

Start: 2008-08-10 19:00

End: 2008-08-10 22:00

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Transition Townes - Movie followed by discussion

Naiemah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:03:55 -0700

Start: 2008-08-04 19:00

End: 2008-08-04 22:00

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Sustainable Michigan/ Peak Oil Monthly Meetings

Naiemah — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:37:07 -0700

Sustainable Michigan meets monthly on the first Monday of the Month hosting an educational series of films on various aspects of sustainable development -- followed by discussion and business meeting. Meetings are open to the public and a calendar with meeting locations is available at: http://oilawareness.meetup.com/285/calendar/

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Developing Community - for Southeast Michigan members exploring Ideas for developing alternative community

Naiemah — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:23:17 -0700

This is for folks in Southeast Michigan looking to lower their footprint, lower energy consumption and work toward greater self sufficiency, eco-sustainability with others in community collaboration; intentional community. An email discussion group about community formation.
People are welcome here who are considering creating community as a solution to peak oil, lowering their carbon footprint and creating options for sustainable living in Southeast michigan. This is a place to discuss your ideas, get feedback, generate interest and learn from each other about community.
One Sample Guide for Community Building topics:
First Steps
• understanding the community
• power and inclusion
Issues, Goals and a Vision of the Future
• community research
• setting priorities
• vision of the future
Vision to Action
• creating a plan for action
• maintaining momentum
• recruiting volunteers to complete tasks
• dealing with accountability
Making the $$$ to Make Things Happen
• looking beyond money
• recognizing unusual resources
Evaluation for Survival and Success
• developing indicators for each goal
• keeping track of progress
• making progress visible to the community
Coaching Linking Knowledge to Action in the 21st Century
• coaching rather than technical assistance
• with rather than for or to the community
• building a skills bank for the next project
A resource for discussion guide:
http://www.heartlandcenter.info/fieldguide/project.htm

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Video and Discussion: A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil

Naiemah — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:16:33 -0700

Start: 2008-07-07 19:00

End: 2008-07-07 21:00

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Viewing of How Cuba Survived Peak Oil tomorrow!

Barry — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:14:50 -0700

Start: 2008-04-02 10:12

End: 2008-04-04 10:12