The planSBsolutions submission to the City of Santa Barbara - Plan Santa Barbara process (200Kb)
Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan 2005
http://transitionculture.org/?page_id=104
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Tertiary Treatment Study Santa Barbara
http://www.healtheocean.org/cost_of_tertiary_wastewater_treatment.pdf
(12Mb)
Heal The Oceans 2006
http://www.resources.ca.gov/copc/6-10-05_meeting/all_public_comment.pdf
(7.5Mb)
Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty is a guidebook on peak oil and global warming for people who work with and for local governments in the United States and Canada. It provides a sober look at how these phenomena are quickly creating new uncertainties and vulnerabilities for cities of all sizes, and explains what local decision-makers can do to address these challenges.
Post Carbon Cities fills an important gap in the resources currently available to local government decision-makers on planning for the changing global energy and climate context of the 21st century.
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Kinsale Energy Decent Action Plan In my final year teaching in Kinsale I developed, together with my second year students, an approach that I called ‘Energy Descent Action Planning’. The work grew out of the inspiration from David Holmgren’s ‘Permaculture - principles and pathways beyond sustainability’ and from the concepts laid out but not really fleshed out in Richard Heinberg’s ‘Powerdown’. In his review of it in the Permaculture Magazine, Patrick Whitefield wrote;
“Rob Hopkins and the students of Kinsale are to be congratulated. Not only on being the first to act when most of us are still just becoming aware of the problem, but also for the quality of their work. I recommend their plan to people everywhere who would like to see some positive action happen in their own community. The challenge of implementing a plan of this kind is huge, but the cost of not doing so would be much greater”.
Info on Kinsale
Kinsale Energy Decent Action Plan 2002
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Santa Barbara Links
www.sbLocal.org
Santa Barbara's new venue for everything local and green. We are brand new. So join the fun and add your business to the business directory - for free. Articles on green and local issues will be added soon. An event callendar - add your event(s). And speak your mind in the forum. The site art will come from local artists and there will be a page for local musicians.
www.mesaexchange.org
The foodshed idea originated in Santa Barbara. There are 5 or 6 foodsheds going strong in SB and an equal number starting in other US cities.
www.bicicentro.org
Bici Centro is a low to no cost bike program where community members learn to work on bikes in a multi-lingual, comfortable and fun setting. We help participants of all ages learn to rebuild good, used bikes and we maintain an inventory of used bike parts taken from otherwise broken bicycles. Bici Cento empowers its members by teaching bicycle repair, craft and creativity, as well as an appreciation of the independence and self-sufficiency the bicycle provides them.
SB infoShop
Santa Barbara Infoshop is a community space built around alternative ideas and do-it-yourself culture to provide fellow members of our community with free resources and support for discussion and organization toward positive social change
Santa Barbara Car Free
www.commuterbicycles.com
peak oil - climate change - stressed earth - on line links list
Making Other Arrangements
A wake-up call to a citizenry in the shadow of oil scarcity
by James Howard Kunstler
photographs by David Maisel
The Great Turning
From Empire to Earth Community
David Korten
Another link to the above
Replacing the Empire Culture: A Podcast Interview With Author David Korten
Money As Debt
Google Video
Peak Everything
Powerdown Revisited
Richard Heinberg
Energy in a Nutshell
By Alice Friedemann
WiserEarth . . .
serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations and individuals addressing the central issues of our day: climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights and more. Content is created and edited by people like you.
How To Save Civilization
by Ran Prieur
Stressed Earth 1
Stressed Earth 2
Stressed Earth 3
Peak Oil 1
Peak Oil 2
Peak Oil 3
Peak Oil 4
Transportation~Bicycles
Santa Barbara Car Free
Climate Change
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen
http://www.ipcc.ch/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070204111626.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/
http://www.unep.org/themes/climatechange/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming
http://news.google.com/news?q=social+%09effects+of+climate+change&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=10&ct=title
http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/GlobalClimate/
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/cag3.html
http://www.climate.org/topics/links/
Food
Environmental activist and physicist Vandana Shiva talks global food politics
Social Justice
Sustainable Environmental Justice for the South Bronx
A moving & informative address to TED.
Majora Carter was born, raised, and continues to live & work in the South Bronx, an environmentally challenged community. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 to fight for Environmental Justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by community needs. She earned a 2005 MacArthur Fellowship for her vision, drive, and tenacity as an urban revitalization strategist.
Money
http://www.pcuonline.org/
http://www.solariactionnetwork.com/phpBB2/
http://www.kiva.org/
Simple Living
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_living
http://www.simpleliving.net/main/
http://www.simpleliving.org/
http://www.whywork.org/
Local Currency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency
http://www.ithacahours.org/
http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_2004-06/articles/11286-1.html
http://www.schumachersociety.org/local_currencies.html
Energy and Architecture
http://architecture2030.org/
People
http://www.chomsky.info/
http://www.juancole.com/
http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/marc_cooper
http://www.lauraflanders.com/
http://www.naomiklein.org/
http://www.pcdf.org/meadows/default.htm
http://www.monbiot.com/
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat
http://www.gregpalast.com/
http://www.michaelparenti.org/
http://howardzinn.org/default/
http://www.hazelhenderson.com/
http://blogs.natlogic.com/friend/
http://www.kunstler.com/
http://www.starhawk.org/
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/
http://www.thebushagenda.net/index.php
Alternative News
http://www.alternet.org/
http://www.truthout.org/
http://www.commondreams.org/
http://www.hopedance.org/cms/
http://kpfk.org/
http://www.democracynow.org/
http://thinkprogress.org/
Eco Village
http://cityrepair.org/wiki.php
http://www.laecovillage.org/
http://www.ecovillage.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovillage
http://www.relocalize.net/
http://www.dancingrabbit.org/
Media
http://www.alternativeradio.org/
http://www.prwatch.org/
Social Justice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice
http://www.socialjustice.org/
Iraq - Iran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Scahill
http://www.blackwaterbook.com/
More...as if you needed this...
http://energyskeptic.com/
http://www.breathingearth.net/
http://www.localharvest.org/
http://flood.firetree.net/
http://www.ecofoot.org/
http://www.bioneers.org/
http://onthecommons.org/
http://www.naturalstep.org/com/nyStart/
http://metaglobal.com/
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