Members of Nevada County's Alliance for People-Powered Transportation discuss biking as a viable alternative to cars; safety, time-saving perspectives, strategies for getting started, and being equipped. Episode 17.
US Forest Service specialist Carol Kennedy's graphs show already-reduced snow pack, longer summers, drier forests. She emphasizes the need to plan for and adapt to changing conditions. Episode 16.
Worldwatch Institute Director of Research Gary Gardner discusses challenges and opportunities as climate change accelerates, and hopeful responses from the grass roots level. Episode 15.
Melinda Zytaruk speaks to correspondent David Room about the implementation of sustainable energy projects across Ontario through the OSEA organization, including Standard Offer Contracts to allow operators of wind turbines, solar panels, hydro plants and biomass plants to connect to the electrical grid.
Members of the San Francisco Oil Awareness Group, a group included in Post Carbon Institute's Relocalization Network, formed a committee last December to lobby the San Francisco board of supervisors to pass a resolution on peak oil. The resolution was passed on Tuesday April 11th, 2006. One of the members of this group responsible for the success of this resolution, Dennis Brumm speaks with correspondent David Room about this tremendous accomplishment.
Jan Lundberg, former analyst for the petroleum industries and founder of CultureChange.org, discusses peak oil and the upcoming Petrocollapse Conference, May 6 in Washington DC.
Megan Quinn and Pat Murphy of The Community Solution discuss their new film, "The Power of Community-How Cuba Survived Peak Oil." Jason Bradford hosts "The Party's Over: Going Local" on KZYX in Mendocino County, CA.
Mendocino supervisor Hal Wagenet scans from this rural county's timber-extraction past to the challenges of a larger retired population's high service needs. Amongst critical "Land Use" issues he adds an idea for mixed-used-building in a walkable Willits. Episode 24.
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