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Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast - All Fall 2009 Lectures from David Archer - University of Chicago

RESILIENCE THINKING - By Rob Hopkins: Why ‘resilience thinking’ is a crucial missing piece of the climate-change jigsaw and why resilience is a more useful concept than sustainability.

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Salon! at St, Matthews Episcopal Church
February 21, 2010 from 7pm to 8:30pm
A Salon is a gathering of people of similar interests, partly to amuse one another and partly to increase their knowledge through conversation. These gatherings often consciously follow Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or…
10 hours ago
Lisa might attend Terrell Holder's event
Salon! at St, Matthews Episcopal Church
February 21, 2010 from 7pm to 8:30pm
A Salon is a gathering of people of similar interests, partly to amuse one another and partly to increase their knowledge through conversation. These gatherings often consciously follow Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or…
11 hours ago
Excellent! Looking forward to meeting you.
11 hours ago
I'm looking forward to meeting the Transition Louisville group and sharing ideas and conversation.
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Terrell Holder added an event
Salon! at St, Matthews Episcopal Church
February 21, 2010 from 7pm to 8:30pm
A Salon is a gathering of people of similar interests, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation. These gatherings often consciously follow Horace's definition of the aims of poetr…
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Document Library

Climate Change

G8+5 Academies’ joint statement: May 09
IPPC - Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report 2007
KEY SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS SINCE THE
IPCC FOURTH ASSESSMENT REPORT

COPENHAGEN Synthesis Report - 2009, March 10-12
Thresholds of Climate
Change in Ecosystems

LARGE PDF Warning 13mb ==> Global Change Full Report - Climate Change Impacts the US Now - End LARGE PDF Warning - !
Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change
Pew Climate TechBook

Food and Agriculture
Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States
US Foodsystem Fact Sheet
Food and Farming Transition

Permaculture
The Essence of Permaculture - Holmgren
Bill Mollison Pamphlet I
TC Permaculture Modules

Energy and Peak Oil
EIA Energy Kid's Page
The Hirsch Report
Environmental Impact of Oil Sands Development
Mitigating Peak Oil
Review of Coal to Liquid Fuels
San Francisco Peak Oil Task Force - Final Report
Giant oil field decline rates and their influence on world oil production
Have We Peaked? - Matt Simmons 2 mb PDF!
Dave Hughs in The Walrus
World Oil Production Peaked in 2008
The Hard Truths - By Exxon and the NPC
Bioenergy Feedsock Information
Bioenergy Conversion Factors
Renewable Fuel Contenders
Renewable Fuel Pretenders
Biofuels.pdf
The Oil Crunch-Skrebowski
Speculators or Supply and Demand?

Sustainability

UN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK
(Geo-4)

Energy Descent Pathways
On American Sustainability
—Anatomy of a Societal Collapse

Brookings Institution BAU Approches to Merto Infrasturcture
Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability...
Choosing the Right Path for Fueling North America’s Transportation Future

Other Important Items

Resilience of the Heart
Transition Network - Who we are and what we do.
Joint Statement towards a Sustainable, Healthy Willits
 

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  • Terrell Holder
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  • The Rev. Jerry Cappel
  • Lisa
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  • Les Squires
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  • Vaughn L. Zeller
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  • Anita McLaughlin
  • S. Bess McLaughlin
  • Evan Simon
  • Bill Spencer
  • Carole Bretschneider
  • Maryam Hand
  • Don Hall
  • Barbara Wilkins
  • Drew Foley

Forum

Terrell Holder

Voice of [a little] Reason in the White House 2 Replies

Started by Terrell Holder in New Economy. Last reply by Terrell Holder Nov. 4, 2009.

S. Bess McLaughlin

The Power of Community flyers 4 Replies

Started by S. Bess McLaughlin in Activism. Last reply by Holly Hamilton Oct. 30, 2009.

S. Bess McLaughlin

Transportation for America 1 Reply

Started by S. Bess McLaughlin in Activism. Last reply by Terrell Holder Oct. 8, 2009.

Blog Posts

Vaughn L. Zeller

Gross National Happiness

This following was adapted from Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinle's August 29, 2009 keynote address to the conference of the Junior Chamber of Conference of Japan. I think its message speaks well to the ideals of the Transition Movement.



When the world leaders gathered at the last session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, they were struck by a multiplicity of crises as never before. Each of us shared our sense of deep concern and helplessness even as the devastating consequence… Continue

Posted by Vaughn L. Zeller on January 28, 2010 at 4:21pm

Evan Simon

ENERGY

I recently came across a book by a physicist named David Mackay called "Sustainable Energy without the hot air". It does the best job of describing our energy options that I've seen to date... with actual numbers. He also does a good job of showing the reader how much we can realistically expect to "scale" up different alternatives. There are some equations but its not very technical. You can dl the book for free at http://www.withouthotair.com/

Posted by Evan Simon on January 8, 2010 at 2:19pm

Transition Culture

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Who We Are...

TRANSITION KENTUCKY is a space for those who seek a sustainable, local-scale implementation of theTransition Model.

This site, and many like it, is being developed by grassroots participation, spontaneously arising to connect transition workers with each other and to identify and nurture the timely development of local Transition Initiatives.

Transition communities squarely face the issues surrounding climate changeand peak oil by unleashing the collective genius of their own citizens to find innovative solutions to these momentous challenges.

Quoteable

"People have made at least a start on discovering the meaning
of human life when they plant shade trees under which
they know full well they will never sit."
Elton Trueblood

"We will be known forever by the track we leave."
-Native American Proverb

"The release of this [fossil fuel] energy is a unidirectional and irreversible process. It can only happen once, and the historical events associated with this release are necessarily without precedent, and are intrinsically incapable of repetition."
- M. King Hubbert, Journal Science, 1949, p. 103-109

"The modern economic world has invented one million economic litanies and forces its citizens to sing them every day, like the Church did in the past with the Latin Litanies in the traditional religious services; believers praying with unintelligible words."
-Pedro Prieto from TOD, 5/29/09

“As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And, it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”
-Justice William O. Douglas Speaks On Twilight

"The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialization, 'Western civilization' or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation."
-John Gray, "Straw Dogs"

"A popular government, without popular information, or the mean of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
-James Madison

"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks but most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."
-Linda Hogan

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