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Peak Oil
A few months ago, I gave a presentation at Alfred University about the global energy crisis. Before I began, I…
Thriving in Community: Surviving Peak Oil and Climate Change
Five years ago, when Community Solutions first began researching and teaching about peak oil and climate change, these problems could…
The Oil Depletion Protocol: How Alternative Fuels Can End Our Wars
Access to petroleum has been mentioned again and again as the primary reason for our nation’s current military engagement in…
A Quaker Family (Yours) Saves Energy
People in the United States, and Quakers in particular, are at a confluence of social, economic, and environmental events like…
Life During the Decline of Oil
What is happening in this crazy world? We pay almost $100 to fill our gas tanks and thousands of dollars…
Building a Low-Energy House
Our family lived in an old farmhouse for nearly 50 years. We spent
Friends and the Consumption and Generation of Electricity
My perception is that present discussion and advocacy among Friends concerning generating electricity has not matured into a robust discernment…
Earthcare from the Cubicle
Easing your Workplace into Sustainable Practices One Monday morning, red wiggler worms greeted my co-worker from the coffee machine. And…
Rethinking Sustainability
The Earth is full of systems that continually increase the possibilities for life. Yet we humans in the environmental movement…
Green, Sustainable, or Vernacular?
Green A supporter of a social and political movement that espouses global environmental protection, bioregionalism, social responsibility, and nonviolence sus·tain…
Public Transportation in the Future
Several years ago, my wife and I paid a visit to the Women’s Suffrage Museum in Seneca Falls, N.Y. As…
Zeri: A Philosophy and Methodology to Reinvent the World
Many Friends have become increasingly concerned that our current economic system is not sustainable. Clearly, a perpetual growth economy is…
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