Showing posts with label local currencies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local currencies. Show all posts

Monday, November 28, 2011

More from Extraenvironmentalist

I listened to episode #28 today, the interview with Richard Heinberg. Here is today's post from James Howard Kunstler, Your new American Dream. which makes some of the same points.

Episode #29 of the Extraenvironmentalist (on Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies): (mp3)

More: Episode #26 The Four Horsemen (mp3)

Episode #19 Chris Martenson (mp3)

Episode #18 John Michael Greer (mp3)

Episode #17 Economics of Sustainability with Richard Douthwaite (mp3)

Episode #9 The Economics of Happiness (mp3)

Episode #6 Peak Oil Blues (mp3)


Episode #5
Phantom Wealth with David Korten (mp3)


Other episodes.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Items of Interest, 10 November 2011

Andrew Bacevich, Solving for X: On George F. Kennan
10 Reasons America Will Be Judged as the Most Brutal Empire in History
Thomas Jefferson and Defiance to Tyrants: An Anniversary worth Celebrating

Berlusconi's Resignation:
Srdja Trifkovic, The End of the Berlusconi Era
Thomas Fleming, Berlusconi, RIP

Localization and Technology:
Occupy Absentee-Owned Farms by Gene Logsdon (EB)
If given a chance, small-scale farms could make a difference in solving hunger problem
From Ideology to Technology by Øyvind Holmstad (EB)
Imagining the post-industrial economy by Sharon Astyk (EB)
For Real Change, Build Relationships: Resilience Circles & Occupy Wall Street

Banking and Currency:
Why Europe May Not Survive the Euro
Crunchy Currency by Vincent D’Agostino
Communities secede from globalism by making their own money.

Into Corporate Territory by Ralph Nader

Occupy the banks: Strategies for transformation by Gar Alperovitz (EB)
A State Bank for Vermont? Changing the Way Money Works (Part 1)

Peak Oil:
Hubbert's Third Prophecy (EB)

Catholic:
Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
Rorate Caeli: The Roman Rite: Old and New - VII
The New Mass and the Cult of Men: liturgy "etsi Deus non daretur"

Zenit:
22 Oblates to Be Beatified in Madrid
Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

35 Deacons Ordained for Opus Dei

"For All" vs. "for Many"
And More on Hand Missals

Afghanistan:
Special Forces Key in Afghanistan

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Items of Interest, 8 November 2011

Phillip Blond, Who Are the Real Conservatives?


Story of Broke

I would dispute the push for clean, renewable energy -- sustainable sources of renewable energy should be cultivated, but we should not maintain the illusion that we can replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. We need to learn to make do with less.

Budget battle is not all about me by David Walker and Lisa Borders

MIKE LOFGREN, Defense Cuts Hysteria

John Zmirak, Is Multiculturalism Evil?

Collapse:
Erik Curren, Collapse could happen, literally, overnight

Fear and the three-day food supply by Toby Hemenway (EB)

OWS:
Jan Lundberg, How The Occupy Movement May Be Off-Base, and How It Can Evolve

Occupy as a New Societal Model & Ways To Improve It by Alpha Lo (EB)

Relocalization:
Transition Culture: Local currencies, Transition Councils and Declarations of Food Independence: it must be the October Transition podcast!

The fire next time is now: Environmental historian Angus Wright’s call for a planetary patriotism by Robert Jensen

Jim Antle reviews SOVEREIGNTY OR SUBMISSION: WILL AMERICANS RULE THEMSELVES OR BE RULED BY OTHERS? by John Fonte

Peak Oil:
Triple-Digit Oil Prices Block Growth & Investments Before "Petro-collapse" (EB)

Peak oil: the five most common misconceptions by Robert Rapier (EB)

Will the “economic price” limit oil production? by Richard Douthwaite (EB)

Virtus:
The Hunger for the Heroic

Welmer, No Man’s Land — A Brief Treatise on Contemporary Masculinity

Classical Education:
Rod Dreher, Why study the Classics?