Building Lifeboats – Building Community
March 6, 2020
NAVIGATING UNCHARTED TERRITORY “Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ― Voltaire The sinking of the Titanic is horribly memorable
NAVIGATING UNCHARTED TERRITORY “Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ― Voltaire The sinking of the Titanic is horribly memorable
“Moving goods and people from place to place in a carbon constrained future will be dependent on sailing vessels, hybrid/fossil free electric ships, and people/electric, powered transport for first and last mile logistics. “
Part one, the Origins of the Center for Post Carbon Logistics Traditional knowledge is in danger and its disappearance would not only cause the loss of people’s
Despite its present dominance, our current logistics system engaged in moving people and goods from place to place is fragile. It is reliant upon carbon-based
Reprinted from Low Tech Magazine with Permission Before the Industrial Revolution, people adjusted their energy demand to a variable energy supply. Our global trade and
February 29, 2012 , In Solar Power, with permission from LANDGENERATOR The history of renewable energy is fascinating. We posted a while back about early efforts to
Originally posted on the Archdruid Report now https://www.ecosophia.net/ by John Michael Greer, March 2014. Reprinted with permission of the author. I have yet to hear
Melding 19th and 21st Century Technologies for Waterborne Freight and Passenger Transport Our world is now convulsed by three great converging crises: climate change, global economic instability,
This post follows a series most used in 2022 here. A convergence of shared photos in the past few days prompted this collection. From the boat below to the last boat depicted, these boats span 99 years, and all worked at one time or another on the NYS Erie/Barge Canal. For the image below […]
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the military helped move more than 15 million barrels of oil and petroleum products through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, an extraordinary figure...
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