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PERMATOPIA a graceful end to cheap oil |
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| Permatopia highlights solutions to Peak Oil, Climate Change and ecocide. The companion website OilEmpire.US is focused on understanding the politics behind these problems that prevent implementation of the solutions. Road-Scholar.org examines the rush to massively expand highway systems as the world passes Peak Oil, and offers some tools to thwart these plans. |
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PERMACULTURE permaculture for nine billion Permatopia dictionary: documents: environmental patterns Permatopia topics energy
beyond oil? oil depletion protocol climate change Greenwash transportation
food water shelter: community
money: health: permaculture: waste: forests:
biomimicry detoxification: primitive technology homesteading eco-cities
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Community Currency
www.prorev.com/hidden.htm
www.prorev.com/devolution.htm#money LOCAL CURRENCIES Widely used in the United States in the early 1900s, local currencies are a legal, but underutilized tool for citizens to support local economies. Local currencies function on a regional scale the same way that national currencies have functioned on a national scale - building the regional economy by creating a protective membrane that is defined by the currency itself. Local businesses that accept the currency are distinguished from chain stores that do not, building greater affinity between citizens of the region and their local merchants. Individuals choosing to use the currency make a conscious commitment to buy locally first, taking personal responsibility for the health and wellbeing of their community, laying the foundation of a truly vibrant, thriving local economy. BERKSHARES EF SCHUMACHER SOCIETY ITHACA HOURS LOCAL CURRENCIES TIME DOLLAR NETWORK TIME DOLLAR
Corvallis (Oregon) Hour Exchange
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/01/18/cneuro18.xml Germans get by without the euro Richard Douthwaite, a 'reformed economist', has proposed a number of alternative
monetary systems to deal with energy decline and the associated monetary crises
which might arise post-peak. Local currencies like LETS are in operation around
the planet already (although LETS itself is somewhat problematic). Experiment
now with local currencies to help survive economic crises. http://ranprieur.com/crash/barterfrance.html Barter in Occupied France www.livingeconomies.org BALLE is an international alliance of 42 independently operated local business networks with more than 12,000 members dedicated to building Local Living Economies.
www.joytopia.net - European site exploring natural economics
The Money Masters - a film that details the rise of banking and central banks over the past few centuries. Has a lot of good information, but the production values of the film are poor, and it is not an easy film to sit through because of this. Perhaps someone can take the good information in this film and rework it into a format that is more watchable. Gold http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article322302.ece The real price of gold If you are thinking about gold, remember that it is hard to dig garden beds with gold coins - it is a substance that has been valuable for millennia, but if the dieoff scenario is the outcome for Peak Oil, it is unlikely that gold would be useful and gold mining has severe environmental and human rights problems |
