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Climate war central to Pentagon planning

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Feb 012010

Climate change and energy are two key issues that will play a significant role in shaping the future security environment. Pentagon

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For the first time, the Pentagon’s primary planning document addresses the threat of global warming, noting that it will accelerate instability and conflict around the globe. Former Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) added language requiring the department to consider the effects of climate change on its facilities, capabilities, and missions to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act. The Department of Defense’s Quadrennial Defense Review (PDF), officially released today, discusses the department’s “strategic approach to climate and energy”:

Climate change and energy are two key issues that will play a significant role in shaping the future security environment.

Although they produce distinct types of challenges, climate change, energy security, and economic stability are inextricably linked.The actions that the Department takes now can prepare us to respond effectively to these challenges in the near term and in the future.

The QDR notes that climate change affects the Department of Defense “in two broad ways”: first, global warming impacts and disasters will “act as an accelerant of instability or conflict,” and second, military installations and forces around the globe will have to adapt to rising seas, increased extreme weather, and other effects of global warming:

Assessments conducted by the intelligence community indicate that climate change could have significant geopolitical impacts around the world, contributing to poverty, environmental degradation, and the further weakening of fragile governments. Climate change will contribute to food and water scarcity, will increase the spread of disease, and may spur or exacerbate mass migration. While climate change alone does not cause conflict, it may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden to respond on civilian institutions and militaries around the world.

Source: Climate Progress

The Cuba Example

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Jan 282010

Micheline Sheehy Skeffington – The Cuba Example – Coping with the sudden absence of fuel, fertilizers and pesticides from Feasta on Vimeo.

Oil Crash - A Crude Awakening

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Jan 192010

Produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.

Source: Oil Crash: The Movie

Robot, I am Not - Permaculture Feature Video

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Jan 192010

Unfortunately so much of the dialogue around peak oil centers on “Collapse” or “Decline” but the more I learn about permaculture, the more I think the future has potential to be better than our current one. A reason for optimism indeed. This ~48 minute film is a fantastic way to spend an evening or a great introduction to the concepts and the promise of the design science of permaculture.

Source: jritchie blog

Cuba Permaculture Power: Roberto Perez - Climate Change before Peak Oil

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Jan 092010

Roberto Perez and colleagues do answer questions after a viewing of The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, Copenhagen, Klimaforum09

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Introduction to Midwest Permaculture USA

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Jan 092010

Midwest Permaculture was created by Bill and Becky Wilson of Stelle, IL with the goal of promoting more sustainable ways of living and providing quality permaculture education and training.

This video is a part of Midwest Permaculture’s Free Internet Webinar Series. It is one of eighteen segments from the first webinar of the Foundations of Permaculture Webinar Series. This is how we begin our Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) Courses and our 4-Day Suburban/Urban Training Intensives.

Midwest Permaculture is the outgrowth of a Permaculture Design Certification Course held in the unique community of Stelle, Illinois, in October of 2006. The course was a great success and hosted by Center for Sustainable Community, a non-profit educational organization and coordinated by Bill Wilson,

Midwest Permaculture was launched immediately following this course by Bill and his wife Rebecca (30 year residents of Stelle) with the goal of promoting more sustainable ways of living and providing quality permaculture education and training throughout the Midwest and beyond.

Source: Midwest Permaculture

Post-Oil Civilization: Nnimmo Bassey chief of FOEI & Esperanza Martinez of Oilwatch International

Posted by niccolo at 7:24 am climate change, democracy, industry, klimaforum, liberation, planet-permaculture, science, transition No Responses » Tagged with: , , , , , ,
Dec 162009

The struggle for a new development model, for energy sovereignty and for sustainability depends on our ability to think along the lines of a new development paradigm built not on oil but on the need to stop the flow of carbon into the ecosystem.

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Post-Oil Civilization

Speakers: Nnimmo Bassey, Environmental Rights Action Nigeria, Chair Friends of the Earth International and International steering committee member Oilwatch International, Esperanza Martinez. Accion Ecologica Ecuador and Immediate past International coordinator Oilwatch International Organisation: Oilwatch International

It is evident that this transition to a new civilization requires the mobilization of powerful movements around the world that will provide equity, justice and sustainability.

Rob Hopkins - Transition on TED

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Nov 252009

Rob Hopkins is the founder of the Transition movement, a radically hopeful and community-driven approach to creating societies independent of fossil fuel

Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem — the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and sacrifice our luxuries to build systems and communities that are completely independent of fossil fuels.

Source: TED

Collapse - Food - The Movie

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Nov 242009

A clip from “Collapse” a documentary by Chris Smith director of “American Movie” & “The Yes Men”.
Radical thinker Michael Ruppert outlines his apocalyptic vision of our world after the collapse of industrial civilization.

Source: Collapse the Movie

Gusher of lies: The myth of energy independence

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Sep 132009

Robert Bryce discusses his new book, GUSHER OF LIES, and the myths of energy independence

Source: Robert Bryce, YouTube

Everybody is talking about “energy independence.” But is it really achievable—or even desirable? In this controversial, meticulously researched book, Robert Bryce exposes the false promises and political posturing behind the rhetoric. Gusher of Lies explains why the idea of energy independence appeals to voters while also showing that renewable sources like wind and solar cannot meet America’s growing energy demand. Along the way, Bryce exposes the ethanol scam as one of the longest-running robberies ever perpetrated on American taxpayers. In a new foreword to this edition, he shows how energy independence rhetoric was used during the 2008 election, even as the heavily subsidized ethanol business fueled a growing global food crisis.

Americans love independence.

Whether it’s financial independence, political independence, the Declaration of Independence, or grilling hotdogs on Independence Day, America’s self-image is inextricably bound to the concepts of freedom and autonomy. The promises laid out by the Declaration — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — are the shared faith and birthright of all Americans.

Alas, the Founding Fathers didn’t write much about gasoline.

Nevertheless, over the past 30 years or so — and particularly over the past 3 or 4 years — American politicians have been talking as though Thomas Jefferson himself warned about the dangers of imported crude oil. Every U.S. president since Richard Nixon has extolled the need for energy independence. In 1974, Nixon promised it could be achieved within 6 years. In 1975, Gerald Ford promised it in 10. In 1977, Jimmy Carter warned Americans that the world’s supply of oil would begin running out within a decade or so and that the energy crisis that was then facing America was “the moral equivalent of war.”


Source: Gusher of Lies, New York Times | Book

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