Category: Envisioning the sustainable future

Tapescript Journey to the cure for addiction #3See earlier scripts #2 #1 Looking for a cure for addiction to short term hits of happiness. An addiction-fostering environment means that there is no “natural” way for you to handle the addiction once you have started to exhibit additive behaviour. You simply have to consciously bring yourself…

Very few communities, to our knowledge, have come so far as the city of Willits in California, USA. Starting from viewings of THE END OF SUBURBIA there are some 65 volunteers working to create a thriving, vibrant community with local energy and food production, sustainable water management and local manufacture. Click the link to hear…

Chevron is pointing out that oil is running out and that until we find replacement sources of energy (admitting they are not in place just yet) we need to work together to make best use of the oil we have. Click on the title or graphic to see more. Great move by Chevron we think.…

The Foundations for the Economics of Sustainability, Feasta, held a major international conference on June 23rd, 24th & 25th, 2005, at the Faculty of Agri-Food and the Environment, University College Dublin, Ireland. Feasta aims to identify the characteristics (economic, cultural and environmental) of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected…

Read the first part of the Journey if you are new to this by clicking on the link! Yesterday I wrote up the notes above for the first trip. There might be something there or not. My task today is to experience how life planning helps individuals address the problems of living a life affected…

Kunstler’s book asks “What’s going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle?”. If you haven’t been following the oil depletion thread this is a good place to get updated. (Link) One thing I have been musing over: I quote the Rolling Stone article ” The turbulence of the Long Emergency…

Preamble: Neil Crofts (http://www.authenticbusiness.co.uk/) does not mx words. He says the modern person is working in indentured slavery and/or is addicted to temporary hits of happiness. “Happiness seems like the end of the rainbow.” …the happiness we feel is usually fleeting and attached to events or things. In this way we develop and understanding that…

A simulation sponsored by Securing America’s Future Energy and the National Commission on Energy Policy, and involving former government officials, revealed how the US economy, and indeed world economy are vulnerable to oil shortages. The simulation played out a series of accidents and terror actions which sent gasoline and oil prices through the ceiling, prompting…

You need to understand that sustainability and economy do not mix when you treat energy as an endless resource like any other. I know that we are preaching the balance between bottom line, environment, society and health but at the same time we recognize that the economic ideas society is based on are counter sustainable…

The innovation quest: Go forward in time to a society which has introduced alternative currency created a society where everyone helps everyone else created conditions for return to a non-oil consumption based community (weaned themselves off oil) created a standard of living for everyone at least at a level of 80% of the pre oil…