Energy expert Jeremy Rifkin delivers a fantastic talk about the third industrial revolution and how we can transition away from centralized carbon-based energy and towards decentralized clean energy. Jeremy Rifkin Video

Saturday, 28 April 2012 Lights Out for the Territory My final cross-post this week is an article about Transition and its relationship with the natural world, commissioned by EarthLines, a new quarterly magazine dedicated to writing on nature, place and the environment. Focusing on the connection between people and nature, it is inspired by the [...]

An interesting read by the Globe and Mail (click for article).

In a recent article for the Globe and Mail, ‘Our Peak Oil Premium,’ author Thomas Homer-Dixon provides a brief updated view on peak oil.

An interesting article from Alice Friedemann: http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-02-25/why-do-political-and-economic-leaders-deny-peak-oil-and-climate-change

This documentary about permaculture principles in farming is a great video on the subject.  Enjoy! Natural World: Farm for the Future

My name is Jeremy Prutchick and I’m thrilled to be a part of Transition Barrie. Being an Environmental Technology student at Georgian College, I’ve learned firsthand about the various issues that our environment faces; one such issue is the constantly rising change in climate all over the world. For any young people reading these too, [...]

It is that time of the week again; the cupboards are getting empty and we need groceries. No problem, we’ll just go to our supermarket and buy the foods we need. Since the car trip is a short one, we won’t be emitting a lot of CO2, right? Well… maybe not. What we never think about, [...]

Thomas Homer-Dixon, Professor at the Centre for Environmental and Business in the Faculty of Environment, at the University of Waterloo, wrote an excellent piece for the Globe and Mail in 2006 about how to deal with an increasingly uncertain future. It is as useful today as it was then – click here for the article.