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10 Steps in 10 Years to 100 Percent Renewable Power

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:31:08 UT

Post-Carbon Institute / Julian Darley / 23 July 2008
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Below is a conceptual plan for achieving the goal of 100% renewable
energy by 2018. We will be updating this document with specific
recommendations and additional resources in the near future.

Food for thought

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:20:57 UT

Halifax Chronicle-Herald / Paul Pickrem / 25 July 2008
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WILMOT — The head of a farm lobby group representing about 100 farmers
across the province says Nova Scotians will have to pay more for food
and may face food shortages if farmers are forced out of business by

It's time for small thinking on energy security

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:03:56 UT

Ottawa Citizen / David Chernushenko / 24 July 2008
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The recent G8 Summit achieved one important result. It showed that too
many of our leaders still think energy "security" can be achieved by
calling for an increase in the rate of oil extraction at the expense

Recession could have a silver lining for us and planet

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:44:47 UT

Irish Times / Breda O'Brien / 19 July 2008
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ROB HOPKINS, in his new book, The Transition Handbook - from Oil
Dependency to Local Resilience, has a humorous analogy that might have
some relevance for our looming recession.

The coming black plague?

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:33:49 UT

"People need to walk to work, use mass transit and start eating food
from local farms so they don't depend on fish and fruit flown in from
Asia and South America." Should we expect our federal government to
lead us out of this quagmire? Local solutions have a better prospect,
though there has yet to be any sign that our local leaders, municipal

Bike, Meet the City. City, This is the Bike.

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:49:21 UT

WorldChanging / Mary Catherine O’Connor / 17 July 2008
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What will bike-friendly cities look like ten years from now? As
citizens around the world raise the demand for human-powered
transportation infrastructure, major cities are starting to re-imagine

Gas Lines Coming This Fall ... Where to invest

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:58:59 UT

Seeking Alpha blog / 15 July 2008
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Summary

Gas lines are coming this fall based on inventory depletion. Watch
World Oil Exports [WOE] and EIA’s TWIP report as leading indicators of
when shortages will develop. Debt, politics, weather and unknowns are

Colleges should plan - and teach - for an oil-scarce world

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:06:26 UT

Our campus of St Lawrence College would be more sustainable if it
taught and practised sustainability ... HC

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The Chronicle of Higher Education / Scott Carlson / 10 July 2008
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Some years ago, bringing up "peak oil" — the concept that oil
production will crest and then decline, leading to all sorts of

Riding all the way to the bank

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:53:21 UT

Brockville needs to appreciate Ottawa as both a potential market for
our tourism sector and a potential source of relocating retirees with
active lifestyles. CAN-BIKE courses are desparately needed for our
own cycling citizens, to get them off city sidewalks ... HC

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Ottawa Business Journal / Krystle Chow / 14 July 2008

Reader feels there is plenty of room downtown for Lakehead

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:25:35 UT

St Lawrence College should have used a downtown location for their new
art gallery, and should consider downtown sites for any further
expansion or relocations ... HC

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Orillia Packet & Times / Letter to the Editor, Scott Weiler / 14 July
2008
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The G8 fiddles while petro-civilization burns

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:17:41 UT

Globe and Mail / Allana Mitchell / 12 July 2008
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These seven worthy books, crackling with intellectual heft, lead
inexorably to an eighth. This eighth book, written almost a quarter of
a century ago, is The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, by the

$4 [USD] gas helping revitalize small towns

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:40:20 UT

Where the U.S. goes, Canada follows ... HC

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THOMASVILLE, Ala. - Residents in once-sleepy Thomasville have started
complaining about traffic jams on Route 43, which runs right through
the town.

Much of the new traffic is coming from shoppers, squeezed by $4-per-
gallon gas, who are staying closer to home instead of driving 100

With Gas Over $4, Cities Explore Whether It's Smart to Be Dense

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:27:07 UT

Wall Street Journal / Ana Campoy / 07 July 2008
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Gasoline was less than $2 a gallon when Mike McKeever brought his
gospel of bikes, light rail and tightly packed neighborhoods to this
state synonymous with cars, freeways and suburban sprawl.

Which future should we prepare for, industrial or agrarian?

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:44:41 UT

The money of this article: "Teaching people who know nothing about
growing food how to do so and then creating places for them to grow
some could be the single most important task facing us." ... HC

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Resource Insights / Kurt Cobb / 05 July 2008
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Why oil costs over $140 per barrel: the failure of leadership

h.campb...@ripnet.com (Hugh Campbell) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:13:08 UT

As usual, the discussions following this TOD blog post are of interest
as well. The article and follow-on comments propose some immediate
actions that can be taken to mitigate this fuel crisis ... HC

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The Oil Drum / Euan Mearns / 06 July 2008
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High oil prices