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Energy Key to Recovery
Richard Heinberg says that high oil prices caused the current recession. We need to burn fewer fossil fuels and release less carbon to slow down climate change. And because of rising demand from...
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“Buy Local” Campaigns May Actually Work
Buy Local Campaigns worked this Christmas, says new study. It’s easy to get cynical about “buy local” campaigns when you compare the traffic at Main Street shops with the parking lot at Wal-Mart. Is...
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Warren Buffett: Bullish on Trains
Warren Buffett is buying rail companies and betting on higher oil prices. Image courtesy of OilPrice.net. The financial world is abuzz with the Sage of Omaha’s latest investment strategy: buy...
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Let’s Hop On Board
Developing rail offers key to recovery. News that China leads the world in high speed train production and railway deployment inspires envy. While the U.S. has dedicated some funds to reinvigorating...
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Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Offshore oil spill despoils water. Looking at pictures of the Gulf spill, the dirtiness of oil becomes abundantly clear. Its not like we don’t know that already. Oil and gas reek, and a splash of it on...
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Everybody’s Fault But Mine
A clarion call, time to wake up. In passing glances the occasional journalist points in the direction of us all, suggesting that it is not just rogue oil companies, in-bed government agencies, or an...
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What Is Transition?
Rob Hopkins' The Transition Handbook is available for sale online, or locally, at The Sacred Circle. Funny to finally be tackling the question, What is Transition? after having been a part of this...
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Disconnect
The Mitsubishi Stubby..no, no, I'm kidding, the Mitsubishi i MiEV. Tee hee... In surprising news out of the White House, The Washington Post reports today that President Obama targeted $2.4 billion for...
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Rebuilding Downtowns With More Services
A better prescription for downtowns, and its not a bitter pill! Yesterday I woke up precipitously ill, with strange enough symptoms that, in a rarity for me, I went to the doctor. As a general rule I...
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Community conversations on peak oil this fall
Stauntonians have come together to fix the Sears Hill Bridge. Now, can we build a bridge to the future? Photo: taberandrew via Flickr. Join us for our next conversation in this three part series,...
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