The Skills for the New Millennium Tour

Here is a link to a project happening in the United States, The Skills for the New Millennium Tour. Check it out! This is a traveling road show teaching permaculture and life skills. Their motto is "Cultivating revolutionary ways of living."

100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change

There is some logic in eating only food that's locally raised and produced in a radius of 100 Mile...
Of course, in a heavy urbanized setting you'll have to be creative!

In 2005, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon began a one-year experiment in local eating.
Their 100-Mile Diet struck a deeper chord than anyone could have predicted, inspiring thousands of individuals, and even whole communities, to change the way they eat.
Locally raised and produced food has been called “the new organic" — better tasting, better for the environment, better for local economies, and better for your health.
From reviving the family farm to reconnecting with the seasons, the local foods movement is turning good eating into a revolution.

100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change

Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinks - CNN.com

"The Arctic sea ice melt is a disaster for the polar bears," according to
Kassie Siegel, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. "They are
dependent on the Arctic sea ice for all of their essential behaviors, and as the
ice melts and global warming transforms the Arctic, polar bears are starving,
drowning, even resorting to cannibalism because they don't have access to their
usual food sources."

On the other side....

Sen. John McCain's choice of a running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska,
favors drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, questioned the
science behind predictions of sea ice loss linked to global warming and opposed
a state initiative that would have banned metal mines from discharging pollution
into salmon streams.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/510779.html

Sarah Palin is really into drilling mother earth...

Transition Towns

Recently I discovered an interesting article on Transition Towns with the following mission statement:

The mission of our embryonic charity is:

* to inspire
* to encourage
* to network
* to support and
* to train

communities as they consider, adopt, adapt and implement the transition model in order to establish a Transition Initiative in their locale.

The transition model emboldens communities to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and unleash the collective genius of their own people to find the answers to this big question:

for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how are we going to:

- significantly rebuild resilience (in response to peak oil)
- drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change)?

Typically, self-determined solutions will involve some flavour of relocalisation.