One of the things we need for a "high road transition", one that is comparitively peaceful and leaves us with a intact and vibrant society, is good and realistically affordable solar power systems.

Well, this is at least a step in that direction.

Boeing to mass-produce record-breaking 39.2 percent efficiency solar cell

According to the article, it's a…

A article relevant to our interests appeared in metafilter today.

Sustainable growth is an oxymoron

" Whether we’ve reached peak oil or not, we’ve certainly reached the peak of oil that’s reasonably easy to extract from Earth. Otherwise, why are we drilling in 5,000 feet of water through another 13,000 feet of rock in the Gulf of Mexico? Why are we…

One of the TTSC founding members writes about this stuff for the local paper:

And arguably they are right, they are still too expensive. I like their line, "Electric cars might take off quickly if gas were $10 a gallon and EVs were the only alternative.".

We face a rocky few decades ahead folks. The cheap oil age people aren't going to change their minds until the last possible moment, and they will happily kick millions and millions of people under the bus to keep their lifestyle.…

I thought this was a pretty good article - and not just because it essentially repeats our corncerns about the end of cheap oil, but because it's clear, readable, and offers plenty of usable quotes.

http://www.praguepost.com/opinion/6457-running-on-empty.html

Such as:

"... we have passed a historic tipping point. In the words of…

The Community Currency magazine is offered to the movement as a way of building internal coherence. It is aimed at practitioners and users of alternative and local means of exchange.

The magazine is free, but its existence is precarious. Rather than paying journalists with advertising revenue, networkers and experts write for the magazine because they know that's where the audience is. We concentrate on things which are actually…