peak oil

Urban Green: Lessons from Cuba

Posted July 1, 2009 - 05:35 by Myscha Theriault

Green Living

I recently saw a rather interesting documentary. The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, takes a detailed look at how this tiny nation has dealt with a decades-long shut off from supplies the rest of us deem necessary, and in the process provides a blueprint for how larger countries might actually begin making some of the same transitions themselves, including a nation-wide organically grown food system. Ready for a peek at how they did it?

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Book review: Game Over

Posted January 11, 2009 - 10:45 by Philip Brewer

Green Living, Investment

Cover of Game Over by Stephen Leeb

Stephen Leeb's new book makes that case that we're running into resource limits on every front--energy, metals, water--and that this problem is going to affect everything we do. Then, it looks at what can we do about it, as individuals and as a society.

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