The Waking Up Syndrome by Sarah Anne Edwards and Linda Buzzell "Humankind cannot bear very much reality." — T. S. Eliot Just dealing with our daily lives...
Dear Naomi and Other New Members, Welcome to the TCA! This is Charles, acting coordinator and current resident of Hamilton (New Zealand.) Your participation...
Hello everyone, My name is Paul. I've been interested in and have tried to learn all I could about alternative energy, alternative home-building, organic ...
Dear Paul, Welcome! My name is Charles, and I am acting as "caretaker" for the TCA discussion site until someone more suitable volunteers. Congratulations on...
Charles, Thank you Charles for the welcome. Wow, Alabama to Utah, that's quit a change. Utah is a beautiful and mysterious place. NZ is another beautiful...
Dear Paul, Yes, I understand your frustration. The only functioning IC in Alabama is Common Ground in Blount County. You might want to get in touch with...
as long as some one is in a good mood, then there is hope.. it takes one smile or a nice touch to set things right. i don't surf but i would think on a good...
Hello Everybody, I have been looking on here at this conversation for quite sometime. I am one of the "early" members, and I organized the last meeting we had...
Hello Jean, Glad to see another post on here. I think it's great that you are willing and able to do the work you are doing. I have experienced the way...
While it's gratifying to watch Hillary Clinton melt back into her senate seat -- in the process foiling the ascent of Emperor Bill the 1st -- one can't help...
I hoped that there would be more interest here as well. At least enough to discuss the idea of an IC somewhere in Alabama and what people would want in one....
Dear TCA Friends: Sorry about the confusion. The "election blues" segment was a re- post from another list, by the author of the book, "The Long Emergency."...
Upcoming Events with Community Solutions Positive Energy: Creating Community Responses to Peak Oil and Climate Change March 22 – 28, 2008 Findhorn, Scotland ...
March 24, 2008 Black Swans Everywhere After a one-day reprieve from total meltdown in the financial markets, news media cheerleaders for the most reckless gang...
Transition Town (Utah) is a community working together to examine Peak Oil and Climate Change and address this BIG question: "for all those aspects of life...
Dear Members (Old and New), Here are some ideas for the promotional literature being developed for the Utah Valley Commons. The same ideas applies to the...
The End of the World as You Know It ... and the Rise of the New Energy World Order By Michael T. Klare TomDispatch.com Tuesday 15 April 2008 Oil at $110 a...
An Alternative Agriculture is Possible The Politics of Food is Politics By DE CLARKE and STAN GOFF In recent days, we have seen the rising price of oil and the...
TCA Friends: It is testimony, quite literally, to Americans' devotion to their cars that prayer services are being held at gas stations to invoke the power of...
Sleepwalking Toward the Oil Precipice Written by Dave Cohen Wednesday, 30 April 2008 The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it...
Charles, People will pray for the price of gas to come down, but they in no way will pray that they could live differently or more sustainably, such as living...
It is well said that time flies. The grandfather, or great- grandfather, of an old man living to-day would have known the pre-Oil Age, when the planet managed...
Charles, First and foremost is get yourselves back-to-the-land and growing your our food. By doing this you not only guarantee your own food self-reliance, but...
The U. S. Electric Grid: Will It Be Our Undoing? Posted by Gail the Actuary <http://www.theoildrum.com/user/Gail+the+Actuary> on May 7, 2008 - 10:00am Quite a...
I agree that getting yourself "back-to-the-land" is a very important step. Access to land could very well be a matter of life and death. But it is only a step...
Add to that the new solar cycle starting. The strongest in 50 years. Peaking around 2012. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080107143109.htm ...
Charles and Janis, We suppose we don't understand the Co-Housing model all that much, especially on the financing end, but we do have some questions..... How...