Thus we see how our very homes will enable us to step away from peak oil consequences.

tim and EarthWalk Alliance

From his insights we can more readily flow into a future where the creation of non-extractive bio-mass contributing human built environment can be had.

We invite Richard to co-share his work with ours, and those of you who want to see our very houses become islands of refuge for all their surrounding living communities.

We are a relatively insane species. This will increase with the stress of poverty, hunger, and dislocation.

I’d like to suggest Chapter 26: Love Does Not Suffer, in ISBN: 0062504010 a discussion between
Ivan Illich and J. Krishnamurti

Transition culture, of course, is also media, and it’s helping keep us up!

This is the inspiration I’m hungry for. I’m less interested in analysis, since I’m already committed to the direction of simplicity and frugality and don’t need to defend that movement.

Greenpa, love your name I think the future political system, if we successfully localise a great deal, won’t be an overarching structure like we currently have. Our politics could be, and deserve to be, much more local. True localism would restore much practical economic decision-making to real people where they live. The barbarism results more from exploitation – decisions made from afar.

Economic systems are, perforce and always, intimately tied up with current political systems.

As the old economy dies- permanently, as seems certain- the political systems tied to it will also collapse. He does realize that, as the books he has written demonstrate. War. Terrorism.

Successors to current political entities are a very serious question mark; and many of the possibilities here are so ugly that thinking persons shy from discussing them.

But what happens on the political end will dramatically affect what is possible on the economic end. Imagining economics in the future without reference to future politics is too- risky.

We simply do not dare to merely hope that currently rather benign governments will prevail.

Evidence, in fact, from the developing world, is that they tend not to.

I’m delighted he likes TT- so do I, I tell people it’s the best thing out there. But not remembering politics risks losing it all, down the road.

I’m afraid it’s like “population growth”. NOBODY wants to talk about it- but everybody knows it’s the real problem.

We need to wrap our heads around understanding the fundamental role that money is playing in this growth game. To begin, economists, governments and everyone need to abandon the concept of GDP. Secondly, we need to abolish the “toxic textbooks” that are currently being taught in economics classes.

Why is there a constant global pursuit for financial wealth which is all an illusion? We live in a predatory world. Prey or be preyed. Ask yourselves why you are employed at a given job and who is the beneficiary of your labour. The creation of money is used as an instrument of power, that gives you predatory power over the less fortunate.

Everything society does and creates is an experiment in social organization. Only time will tell what worked and what didn’t.

a butterfly wing flap in the Amazon can cause a storm in Asia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

so I hope my actions in Southend will also have an effect I can’t predict but can maybe imagine.
I wonder if the newsletter I sent out last month was read by someone in Westcliff who will get interested in the Organic Food Growing course run by South East Essex Organic Gardeners over the next months in our town. That person will learn to grow their food in their back garden with the children running in between the beanstalks. One of those children might be the post peak oil food activist and leader whose ideas will be crucial in creating a sustainable food network in Southend. I continue to flap my metaphorical wings with the rest of the transitioners out there…

We are inventing practical, stable ways of living for “A future in which we do for ourselves, share, and cooperate.”