Postulated Physical Sustainability "Laws". (In the nature of thermodynamics "laws", not political / man-made laws) First Law. Non renewable resources must...
For future reference of anyone in the greater Tucson area connecting to this group, I have a disk of the "End of Suburbia" movie that I am willing to loan out....
Sustainability: What is it? The word sustainable implies the ability to continue for an indefinite period. To put sustainable into a shorter timeframe, ...
Excerpted from the Tucson Metropolitan Energy Commission website: Oil fuels the modern world. No other substance can equal the enormous impact which the use of...
Open Letter to Congressman Grijalva (D.Arizona): I noted this morning that you are a co-sponsor of H. RES. 507, Mr. Bartlett's "PEAK OIL" resolution. I wanted...
Mr. Brown, et all: I've read in several websites that some "oil experts" actually marked this Thanksgiving, 24 NOV 2005, as the probable "peak" of oil...
Yes Ron - I believe your instincts re: the proactive vision of Tucson Governments and the public support for these endeavors are closely aligned with my...
Richard, In our wanderings around the state (hastening the end of the oil era…) we've also visited Arcosanti. Unfortunately, after what I had read on the...
There are lots of scary stories posted of the end of the oil era. Any of them may come true. There are claims that peak oil is a hoax, nothing to be concerned ...
OK - so my neighbor said I could brine as many olives as I wanted from two of his trees on his front yard. (Kids thought/think I am nuts to have them help me...
Hello to my fellow Sustainable Tucsoners, The reason I have decided to stay "in town" rather than run for the hills comes from some insight I gleaned from...
I need the same thing, a reliable method of processing olives... in the past few years, I've tried several "formulas" that I saw on the web, but still ended up...
Laura, et all: Toby's "home" of Portland is another of the (few) cities that appear to have a head-start toward achieving sustainability in a post oil era....
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/461 Has an audio / video presentation from the retired Professor of Physics from the University of Colorado in...
By generally accepted definition, a "desert" is hot, dry and dusty. But even non-technical civilizations were able to build communities in arid regions that...
James Kunstler in his book The Long Emergency says that the Southwest is one of the places that one should not be due to limited amounts of water. I would like...
Hi Patricia and fellow sustainers, Kunstler certainly has a knack for dark scenarios eh? The End of Suburbia was enough to ruin your day even when you eat,...
New solar incentives make this the time to get solar equipment Solar alert - TSA Buyers Group meeting Thursday 15 Tucson Solar Alliance meeting Thursday,...
Water use, like use of any limited resource, even those "renewable", depends on the total demand… How many people, and the per-person demand. Tucson, ...
There is so much in that 177 gallons per day per person that can and will be used differently should water become an issue. Which I believe it will. I know...
Laura, et all: If we're contemplating a community engineered and organized for the long-term, in the absence of cheap oil for tractors and transportation, oil...
Ronald, Are you saying that if I had a family of two and gardened to feed us both that it would take 177x2 gallons of water per day to keep the garden going?...
For the 177 gallon/day number, I was using info from Brad's website. Depending on what you plant, and the "micro-environment" you create, backyard experiments ...
Has there been a showing of The End of Suburbia in the Tucson area? If so, has it6 been recently? If not, are there any suggestions about organizing a...
The last showing I know of is the one announced at postcarbon, back in August. A I mentioned earlier, I've got a disk of the movie, and I'll loan it to...
Patricia - Although our fearless leader has the DVD somewhere in Yuma, I have a a copy here in northwest Tucson. I would consider hosting a showing on an older...
The City of Austin, Texas, has announced it is playing host to a nationwide competition and the prize is the title of "Clean Energy Capital of the U.S." The...
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