Contents contributed and discussions participated by Paula Hay
To Plan for Emergency, or Not? - 0 views
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It’s worth asking: What is Transition actually capable of doing to respond to an unprecedented economic crisis? In the most cynical assessment, it consists essentially of a lot of well-meaning local activists wanting to envision a better future. These are not the sorts of people to engage in serious emergency response work, nor do they have the support mechanisms to enable them to do it.
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If what we are proposing to do can only succeed if we have a decade or so of “normal” economic conditions during which to grow our base, train more trainers, and deploy our methods, then . . . it may indeed be too late. But if we can adapt quickly and thereby strategically help our communities adapt, the result may be beneficial both to communities and to those who are organizing Transition efforts.
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I intend to focus primarily on identifying efforts taking place in communities around the world that (1) address basic human needs in the context of economic collapse (2) are replicable and/or scalable, and (3) set us on the path toward sustainability. In fact this will also be the main focus for Post Carbon Institute for the foreseeable future, as we expand our Fellows program. I hope that what we come up with as a think tank will be immediately useful to Transition initiatives everywhere.
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S.D. residents finance town's only variety store - USATODAY.com - 0 views
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more than 100 people in Clark have purchased $500 shares to finance the opening of the Clark Hometown Variety Store. The store will take the place of the Duckwall store, which was one of 20 underperforming stores parent company Duckwall-Alco Stores of Kansas closed in 2005.
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"We had no place in town to buy a pair of shoelaces or buy socks or underwear or any of those things," says Greg Furness, a shareholder who runs the local funeral home. Residents, he says, had to make a 40-minute drive — sometimes in treacherous winter conditions — to Watertown every time they needed supplies.
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Some stockholders purchased multiple shares and ultimately raised about $100,000, Furness says. Then townspeople volunteered their time to refurbish the store.
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Peak Oil for Programmers, Part II « ram them down - 0 views
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Google is the world’s largest electric utility customer It used to be the case that people who were in charge of serious computing performance measured FLOPS. Now they measure FLOPS per watt. How fast one computer may be is irrelevant. Ken Brill, director of the Uptime Institute, describes how energy management has become the number one challenge in data center management.
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programmers have ignored the energy dynamics of our work (and our white collar clients’) for too long, and that we won’t be able to get away with it for much longer.
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I think it’s safe to say that in the US and many other countries, we have far exceeded the 20% spending on information that nature came up with
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the new somerset and dorset railway - bringing back our trains - 0 views
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Citizen action restoring passenger rail in the UK - Sweet! A coalition of citizens' groups are working to restore the New Somerset and Dorset rail lines between Bath and Bournemouth in the UK. There's tons of room for this sort of thing in the United States, given the great love railroad enthusiasts have for lost railroad glory. Don't miss the detailed Google map of the New Somerset and Dorset lines.
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Paula Hay
Publishing generalist with depth of experience in design and execution for both print and web. Formal education in journalism, editing and technical writing. Keen interest in content management focusing on search engine optimization, user experience, and conversion. Enthusiasm for entrepreneurship...