Song Of the Spindle from Drew Christie on Vimeo.

Why we humans need to sing and make more music to be in harmony with each other and our planet. Pun intended.

Exercise your spindle.
Thanks to Ben West for sending this to me.

March 18, 2011

Instructions for saving our butts in a Post Oil low energy future.

Co-written by VPOE Richard Balfour and Eileen Keenan
Cost $10.00 for full color pdf downloadable file or $35.00 for a hardcover edition.

Want one? Click here to go to Plan Canadahttp://plancanada.com/

While focused on Vancouver as an example this is about global impacts on any city or culture from peak oil and climate change, and in an effort to deal with cultural adaption, not cultural melt down.
• Peak Oil
• Sustainability Workshops
• Canadian Institute of Planners
• Narrow Streets and Houses
• City Lands opportunities
• Farmland
• Miscellaneous – you won’t believe the topics covered in this section
• Links

For agreements for multiple use for education uses, please contact oldcityfoundation@telus.net.

Thanks to Charles Dobson in help making this alternate access available.
Richard Balfour and Eileen Keenan

Richard Balfour Architect & Co.
Balfour & Associates • Strategic Planning
Vancouver  6047310206
balfourarch@telus.net
www.plancanada.com

This week’s Radio Ecoshock Show is entirely devoted to Kathy McMahon’s speech in Vancouver.

This Radio Ecoshock special on Peak Oil Blues is also being distributed via the Pacific Radio network (about 5 to 7 stations will run that), and in an even more abbreviated cut, on Green 960 AM in San Francisco (it’s just a half hour show).  The one hour program is already out to my podcast list. Here in Vancouver, This Friday at 1 pm on CFRO 102.7 FM, I only get to play 35 minutes of Kathy’s speech.

Here is a link to the Lo-Fi version of the program, to be broadcast starting Friday:

http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock10/ES_101029_Show_LoFi.mp3

That is 1 hour, 14 megabytes.

You, and all listeners, can download the full speech, plus the 20 minute interview between Kathy and I, with links in this week’s Radio Ecoshock Show blog entry here:

http://www.ecoshock.info/2010/10/peak-oil-vs-pathological-optimism.html

Scroll down to the bottom, to find the links.  Later, all this will show up on our Peak Oil page at ecoshock.org as well.

Alex Smith
host
Radio Ecoshock
http://www.ecoshock.org

Monday Oct. 18, 2010

SFU 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, Room 1400

Cost: By donation – Register for this event here.

Peak Shrink – Kathy McMahon

In a small liberal town in Massachusetts’ Berkshires, Kathy McMahon, Psy.D, makes her living spicing up people’s sex lives. But arguably her most prescient work is not as a couple’s therapist; it’s as an online advice columnist for people who are freaked out about the coming peak-oil crisis. Her nom de web is Peak Oil Shrink. With humour and insight, clinical psychologist Kathy McMahon addresses a few of the major challenges of our time and discusses why “all or nothing” thinking is cutting short a more serious conversation about what we value, how our values dictate our behavior, and what we need to do to prepare for a future that may be very different from what’s being predicted.

Sponsored by:
Vancouver Peak Oil
Village Vancouver
Board of Change
Cool North Shore
How to Boil a Frog

Vancouver Peak Oil Meet-up Group

by Silver Donald Cameron
SUNDAY HERALD COLUMN March 21, 2010

I’ve heard this before not once, but many times. Improve the
condition of women, and you achieve real development. Men will
squander their money on toys, drink and general peacockery. Women
will improve the lives of their families and their communities. Women
will behave like adults. Read the complete Post.

Fri – Sat December 4 – 5
9 am – 5 pm

Langara College, 100 West 49 Avenue, Vancouver

Co-sponsored by:
Langara College Continuing Studies, Village Vancouver and the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal

Join leaders of the transition movement in Vancouver for a 2-day workshop and dialogue introducing the principles, steps and lessons of the successful Transition Town model of local response to global challenges.

· What are the lessons for activists and concerned citizens?

· How can we increase resilience in every neighbourhood?

· What are the ways we might collaborate to get the impacts that are needed? Read the complete Post.

Check out this cool video starring our own VPOE Justin Tilson.
http://100mile.foodtv.ca/webisode/guerrilla-gardening

When some imaginative neighbours get together to transform the space around some abandoned railway tracks into an improvised community garden, they are taking part in a global phenomenon called guerrilla gardening. Author David Tracey explains how to look at the whole city as a potential garden… a garden that needs tending.

Credits
Director/Editor: Hart Snider
Camera: Hart Snider, Galit Mastai
Coordinator: Galit Mastai

Special thanks to David Tracey and Lisa and Justin Tilson

Feb 15, 2009 04:30 AM
The Toronto Star
by Cathal Kelly

For millennia, doomsayers have been predicting the end of the world as we know it. These days, theory dovetails with fact: oil is disappearing. Should we be listening?

After the planes hit the towers, Paul added a to-do to his long survival list.

At the time, he was working on the eighth floor of a west-end office tower. So he convinced a guy at the local outdoors supplier to teach him to rappel. Then he bought 60 metres of rope and packed it, along with some climbing gear, into a briefcase. Then he tucked the briefcase under his desk.

“It seemed like the intelligent thing to do,” he shrugs.

Three years ago, Paul heard about Peak Oil. This is the millenarianism of our recessionary time, a doomsday scenario with a wrinkle – scientific backing. In essence, Peak Oil states that the world’s supply of crude will soon go into permanent, inexorable decline. This is widely accepted amongst experts. The main points of debate are exactly when this will happen, how quickly oil will deplete and what happens next. Read the complete Post.

Dear Local Food Leaders Across Canada,

We at St. Lawrence College in Kingston are pleased to announce a new distance education certificate program in Sustainable Local Food for All Canadians which will be launched with a first course in January 2009: Read the complete Post.

Terrific library of free short videos courtesy of the show brought to you by Metro Vancouver – check out their site!