Are you interested in learning how Ojai can respond to the challenges and opportunities of Peak Oil, Climate Change, and Economic Instability?
The third in a series of meetings of Transition Ojai
Tuesday, March 2, at 6.45 pm
Glen Muse
815 Libbey Ave, Ojai
For directions and map click here: Transition Ojai
“We’ll be bringing our ideas for actions/events/publicity/work groups etc. together in order to move Transition Ojai onto the next phase. This will not be a meeting for those who are new to transition, but of course everyone is welcome:), however, there will not be an opportunity at this meeting to present the basic ideas of our Transition Initiative,” said Wayne Thompson, Transition Ojai organizer.
Transition Ojai
www.transitionojai.org
Contact: Wayne Thompson, 805 798 2152
E-mail transitionojai@gmail.com
“Transition Ojai is what we make it!”
If you are new to the concept of Transition Towns, please watch out for an Introduction to Transition Meeting coming soon. In the meantime, you can read The Transition Primer. Click Here.
http://transitionojai.org/PDF/TransitionInitiativesPrimer.pdf
Notes:
Welcome to Transition Ojai
View the complete slideshow presentation:
http://www.transitionojai.org/PDF/The_Ojai_Transition_Initiative_Introduction_Slideshow.pdf
Welcome to Transition Ojai! Learn All About Transition Towns Here.
http://transitionojai.org/index.html
The Transition Town movement represents one of the most promising ways of engaging people and communities to take the far-reaching actions that are required to mitigate the effects of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. Here in Ojai I see the Transition Town model as a way to bring together and empower many different community projects, organizations and endeavors that are part of creating a sustainable community.
Related OjaiPost article:
http://www.ojaipost.com/2010/01/welcome_to_transition_ojai_lea.shtml
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I have been reading the Transition Town slideshow (click link above).
So much to learn!
Today, I also read this:
The Century of Famine
By Peter Goodchild
Humanity has struggled to survive through the millennia in terms of
balancing population size with food supply. The same is true now, but
population numbers have been soaring for over a century. The limiting
factor has been hidden, but this factor — oil and natural gas, or petroleum — is close to or beyond its peak extraction.
Without ample,free-flowing petroleum, it will not be possible to support a population of several billion for long.
Famine caused by petroleum supply failure alone will result in about 2.5
billion above-normal deaths before the year 2050; lost and averted births will amount to roughly an equal number.
In terms of its effects on daily human life, the most significant aspect of
fossil-fuel depletion will be the lack of food.
“Peak oil” is basically “peak food.”
Modern agriculture is highly dependent on fossil fuels for fertilizers (the Haber?Bosch process combines natural gas with
atmospheric nitrogen to produce nitrogen fertilizer), pesticides, and the operation of machines for irrigation, harvesting, processing, and
transportation.
Without fossil fuels, modern methods of food production will disappear, and crop yields will be far less than at present. Crop yields are far lower in societies that do not have fossil fuels or modern machinery. We should therefore have no llusions that several billion humans can be fed by “organic gardening” or anything else of that nature.
The Green Revolution involved, among other things, the development of
higher-yielding crops. These new varieties, however, could be grown only with large inputs of fertilizer and pesticides, all of which required
fossil fuels. In essence, the Green Revolution was little more than the
invention of a way to turn petroleum into food.
Over the next few decades, therefore, there will be famine on a scale many times larger than ever before in human history. It is possible, of course,
that warfare and plague will take their toll to a large extent before
famine claims its victims. The distinctions, in any case, can never be
absolute: often “war + drought = famine” [3], especially in sub-Saharan
Africa, but there are several other combinations of factors.
To read the complete article go to: http://culturechange.org/go.html?610
Source:
Culture Change
P.O. Box 4347, Arcata, CA 95518 USA
Tel/fax: 1-215-243-3144
http://culturechange.org
(Sigh…it is still a beautiful day with the sweet signs of spring everywhere…)