The makers of The Power of Community recently wrapped up The Fifth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions in Rochester, MI. The four areas of focus were energy, housing, transportation and food. These categories are significant for us all. How can I live more sustainably in these life spheres? I had hoped to [...]
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Worldwide, there were some 200 million automobiles in 1970; by 1990 the number had grown to 500 million. If current population and buying trends continue, it is estimated that by 2030 there could be more than 1 trillion cars rumbling down our highways and byways (Hypertextbook.com). While the auto industry provides thousands of jobs for [...]
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I am fortunate to have friends who like to share. Allow me to comment on six films and programs they have shared with me over the past few weeks. In November of 2007, a group of us watched An Inconvenient Truth for our community movie night. After that contentious evening, one person began collecting documentaries [...]
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Tonight some friends invited us over to watch The Power of Community, a short documentary about how Cuba responded to the collapse of the Soviet Union during the Special Period. Because Cuba had to re-invent itself after losing cheap oil imports, it is an example for the rest of the world of how to cope [...]
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