SchwartzReport: 81 Communities in Illinois 100% Clean Energy

This is very cool news. Very positive showing the transition away from carbon can be done by communities. Illinois Powers 91 Communities With 100 Percent Clean Energy BRANDON BAKER | – EcoBusiness Many people don’t know of a state with more than one community using 100-percent renewable electricity, but one state has nearly 100 of …

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: NASA Models Collapse of Western Civilization — Concentration of Wealth and Cascade of Critical Break-Downs

NASA-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’? Natural and social scientists develop new model of how ‘perfect storm’ of crises could unravel global system A new study sponsored by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly …

Transition Network Concept Paper: Region-Wide Resilience in New England

Reflections for Consideration This short paper offers some “grist for the mill” as we consider together what regional resilience could mean for New England. Download this document as a PDF. New England has a long tradition of radical communitarian culture. The colonists came here as congregations or communities rather than as individuals. Communities banded together …

Berto Jongman: Florida Makes It Illegal to Live Sustainably

As you would say, “we do not make this up.” Florida Makes Off-Grid Living Illegal – Mandates All Homes Must Be Connected To An Electricity Grid It’s no secret that an opposition to sustainable living exists. Earlier this year, Texas state brought several SWAT teams to a sustainable community and threatened to shut it down. …