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This is a stream of blog posts from our on-site bloggers, and, a growing list of blogs we re-publish from Transition Voice, This Low Carbon Life, Reslience.org's news feed and Transition US.

Shelter from the Tornado

I live in Tornado Alley, in Oklahoma City. The suburb located fifteen miles south of our home, Moore, averages a tornado every 2.5 years since 1991.

Microgrids: A Utility’s Best Friend or Worst Enemy?

A recent data roundup by renewable energy industry analyst Paul Gipe shows that variable renewables are meeting much larger percentages of grid power than previously thought possible in some European countries.

New website design V2

More work from Ben - we've pretty much cracked the core design (blue background, neutral content background, white content boxes with square edges and dropshadows etc.) and have been through a couple of iterations and some experimental designs for reflection.

Scraps and the City

Food and other organic material (by which I mean yard waste and prunings) make up a whopping 25 percent of New York’s residential waste stream: that’s a huge amount to potentially divert from landfills and incinerators.

Climate: action, impact, and geoengineering - May 24

•China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016 •Warming to hit half of plants, a third of animals •Geoengineering: Can We Save the Planet by Messing with Nature?

Sharing as a Solution to Global Crisis

The social, environmental and economic crises that continue to reap havoc across the globe provide a critical opportunity for ordinary people to demand economic reform and political transformation says STWR's director, Rajesh Makwana, in an interview wit

Streetfacts #4: Children Have Lost the Freedom to Roam

The percentage of children walking and bicycling to school has plummeted from almost 50 percent in 1969 to about 13 percent today.

Supply Shock: Ecological Economics Comes of Age, Part 1

Of all the critiques of mainstream economics, Third World, feminist, Austrian, radical, Georgist, Marxist and others, the one our grandkids would have us heed most is the ecological critique.

You must believe: how climate change is like the Boston Celtics

Kendrick Perkins

Former Boston Celtics Center Kendrick Perkins

Two notions of liberty revisited - or how to disentangle Liberty and Slavery

"Freedom is the natural faculty to do whatever one wishes that is not prevented by force or law.

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