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Preservationists Outraged As Obama Cancels Building Restoration Programs

Historic buildings sure looked good a year ago. What happened? Wikipedia commons We have noted before that the greenest brick is the one already in the wall, and that renovation and restoration are labor-intensive, giving twice as much stimulus bang for the buck than new construction. They are green jobs, creating more efficient buildings and saving energy at a lot less cost...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Geoengineering Inspired by Volcanoes? Not if You Want to Avoid Destroying Our Lakes

photo: Roberto Zingales via flickr. Geoengineering comes in many forms from the benign (planting more trees to soak up carbon, biochar, etc.) to the downright dangerous. This is about one of the latter: Simulating a volcanic eruption by pumping sulphur particles into the atmosphere. This idea has been poo-pooed plenty of times before, and some new research in the journal Nature Geoscience...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Finally, Rebuttal to 'Snow Means No Global Warming' Nonsense Aired in Mainstream Media (Video)

It gets pretty tiresome having to explain that climate change doesn't mean that every region of the world will turn into the Sahara Desert next week. But it seems like that's what it would take for many to appreciate the vast body of scientific evidence confirming man-caused climate change: Fox correspondents, GOP Senators (and their grandchildren!?), and climate skeptics of every stripe are ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Biking in Buenos Aires Just Got Easier: Introducing the City's New Bike Paths

Photo: Courtesy of Buenos Aires government. If you're thinking about traveling to Buenos Aires, consider taking your bike with you. The promise of 100 kilometers of new bike paths is becoming a reality with new safe, separated-from-traffic lanes popping up in different parts of the city. Take a look at the map inside....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Anyone Know What To Do When Your Site is Virally Contaminated?

I've tried asking for tech support, but I can't figure it out. This site has a virus in/on it, and it isn't working very well, but I have no idea what to do about it. Anyone have any suggestions? Help!!!! Sharon

‘After Copenhagen’: a recent Transition Town Totnes event

Here is a short film about a recent event in Totnes, where people involved in TTT who had been in Copenhagen for COP15 and the Klimaforum shared their experiences. Thanks to the good people of the nu-project for making this film.

Film Review: ‘Food Inc.’

At this year’s Soil Association conference I was chatting with Mike Small of the Fife Diet in Scotland.  He told a story about how a film crew from Sky News came up to Fife to do a news story about their work.  While they were filming, Mike chatted to the director and asked him what [...]

Transition Makes the Hallowed Pages of New Scientist

I am featured in the hallowed pages of New Scientist this week in its Opinion section, under the heading “Rob Hopkins: getting over oil, one town at a time”.  The only slight glitch with it is that the otherwise very attentive interviewer misheard my response when she asked when I thought we would see price [...]

Davie Philip on ‘The Good Life 2.0.’

Here’s a great talk by Davie Philip, long-standing master-networker, Transition Ireland Network catalyst and one man catalyst for change, speaking at day two of The New Emergency Conference: Managing Risk and Building Resilience in a Resource Constrained World, held in Dublin last summer by FEASTA. Excellent.

Cross Sector Partnerships and Transition Towns: some useful insights

Here is an excellent piece from the Mid-Wales Permaculture Network site, an interview which looks at how Transition initiatives build relationships with other organisations.  It is very insightful, and so, with gratitude to Roz Brown and the MWPN, here it is. Roz Brown in conversation with Dave Prescott of Transition Hay-on-Wye The need for broad community involvement [...]