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...
Sopda, You've offered some excellent advice and we hope people here take it to heart. We're not having much luck finding our core group of people we could...
It is extremely difficult, as you say. We have noticed that when we speak of energy descent and economic dislocation, we tend to lose our audience. It scares...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says its profit rose nearly 7 percent in its first quarter on higher sales. The results beat Wall Street's...
... I'm surprised. I watch all of the Peak Moment Cable TV show videos on youtube and it seems that people out your way get it much more so than they do here....
Sodpa, We have our own IC start up that evolved from our learning the how to of a food and energy self-reliant lifestyle. Along our way we realized all that we...
Daniel & Patti, Thank you for the info. Sounds like a great project. I to have been totally hooked on these subjects since the 70's. I wish we weren't on ...
Sodpa, We know that you mean well with your comments and questions, but we think you are missing our points. We're talking about what we've experienced over...
Daniel, Since you've had no luck recruiting, I wonder: what kind of equity arrangement are you offering potential members? Do people buy in? If so, do they...
... an IC it all end up in the same dead end. I guess that depends on exactly what "your ideals" are. ... There are many reasons why someone might choose to...
Charles, We have eight acres with its own debt free deed we've offered to sell, or we can provide a long term lease on portions of our land. We also have a...
List of Cohousing Consultants The list below is intended to grow into a broad list of consulting services available to forming or existing Cohousing...
Sodpa, We found that we have no rights at all to challenge what people call community today. If what types of community people have today (or seek) are...
... community today. If what types of community people have today (or seek) are working for them then they have no intensive to seek any other type of...
Yes, I agree with you. This list was intended as a place to recruit members to the TCA and to plan the construction of a cohousing/ecovillage community in the...