Brian Weller of Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL) discusses their community's process of building a secure, sustainable future based on RISC: Responsibility, Ingenuity, Security and Community. "When we depend on where we live for our livelihood, then we take care of it." … [Read more...]
Citizens Advisory Group on Energy
June 8, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Matt Stevens chairs the group formed to assess Sebastopol's electricity use and its ability to respond to price increases and supply disruptions, and to make recommendations to reduce the city's vulnerability. Episode 20. Watch video | iTunes | … [Read more...]
Sebastopol: A Town Addresses Energy Decline
June 1, 2006 by Leave a Comment
City councilman Larry Robinson discusses how rising energy prices and availability might affect services like fire, water, wastewater, law enforcement—and the citizen's advisory group starting to address these issues. Episode 19. Watch video | iTunes | … [Read more...]
The Powerdown Project
May 25, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Students in New College of California's Powerdown Project are preparing templates usable by cities to assess how their core services will be affected by rising fossil-fuel prices and shortages. With project coordinator Ellen Bicheler, and students Wesley Caddell and Amber … [Read more...]
The Joy of Biking
May 18, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Janelle Black, Johnna Garrido and Nicholas George, members of Nevada County's Alliance for People-Powered Transportation, discuss biking as a viable alternative to cars; safety, time-saving perspectives, strategies for getting started, and being equipped. Episode … [Read more...]
Climate Change Effects in the Sierra Nevada
May 11, 2006 by Leave a Comment
US Forest Service specialist Carol Kennedy's graphs show already-reduced snow pack, longer summers, drier forests. She emphasizes the need to plan for and adapt to changing conditions. Episode 16. Watch video | iTunes | … [Read more...]
Climate Change and the State of the World
May 4, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Worldwatch Institute Director of Research Gary Gardner discusses challenges and opportunities as climate change accelerates, and hopeful responses from the grass roots level. Episode 15. [www.worldwatch.org] Watch video | iTunes | … [Read more...]
Building a Relocalization Network
April 27, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Celine Rich and Julian Darley, co-directors of Post Carbon Institute, discuss their rapidly-growing Relocalization network supporting small groups worldwide to reduce consumption and produce locally: Reduce 90%, Produce 10%. Episode 14. [postcarbon.org] Watch video | … [Read more...]
Peak Oil: Challenge and Opportunity
April 20, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Rick Hartmann covers the data about global oil production and consumption, while Michael Thompson envisions a healthier, better world on the other side of the peak. Episode 13. Watch video | iTunes | … [Read more...]
Sustaining Food, Sustainable Food
April 13, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Shan Kendall discusses nutrition-dense foods that nourished traditional peoples. Usually high in quality animal fats, with fermented foods to aid digestion, these foods fostered low levels of chronic disease. Shan cooks and teaches based on the principles in Nourishing … [Read more...]
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