American Transitions

The country needs a new growth strategy right now. We are observing institutions which we thought were the strongest in the world crumbling into pieces from peak Everything. People are scared, and looking for solutions. What are these going to be? The visionaries who speak the loudest will define what gets done under new leadership.

Some Good Ideas:

America Needs a New Growth Strategy. It’s Getting Hot In Here, 11/11.
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/11/11/america-needs-a-new-growth-strategy/

Organic Transitions: Beyond the Gloom & Doom of Economic Depression, Climate Change, & Peak Oil. Organic Transitions Campaign.:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15140.cfm

How to Save the Coal Industry
Really interesting ideas from a Kos blogger. If coal moratorium is impossible, first step: Stop MTR.
Daily Kos

Where do we start?
Obama:
“I was just reading an article in the New York Times by Michael Pollen about food and the fact that our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil. As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it’s creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky-high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge swings in commodity prices, and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because they’re contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs. That’s just one sector of the economy. You think about the same thing is true on transportation. The same thing is true on how we construct our buildings. The same is true across the board. ”
-Barack Obama, NPR Interview 10/23/2008

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