[EQAB-list] Interviews pertinent to local energy issues

[Fred L Stephens]

I want to bring your attention to these video interviews. Pertinent 
to our purposes are comments made about slowing traffic in town, 
providing better walking and bicyling cities. - Fred


Peak Moment 133: From the ASPO-USA 2008 conference: two long-standing 
peak oil awakeners: author James Howard Kunstler (The Long Emergency) 
and Post Carbon Institute Founder and President, Julian Darley.

Darley, founder of Post Carbon Institute, is big on sharing: Sharing 
ideas to quickly inform a public largely unaware of peak oil. Sharing 
cars as a quick way individuals can get fuel usage down. He notes the 
"Re" in Relocalization means positive actions we can revive from the 
past to enable the powerdown transition.

Kunstler describes his recent novel World Made by Hand, a richly 
textured life in a post-oil agrarian community where electricity and 
phone are rarely working, and people must of necessity rely on each 
other. He compares America's current financial and political "fiesta 
of dishonesty" with the 1850s, which preceded the "last great U.S. 
convulsion."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUKXslztdHg

Fred L Stephens
email: freds7 at dancingcreek.com