There's nothing like taking a decent road trip over a holiday weekend, like Memorial Day, to catch up on some blogging. We went from Bucks County, PA, where gasoline was selling for $3.75 at one local station. We got a $3.79 fillup without going out of our way. That was quite a relief from the $4 plus prices we saw in the previous weeks. It reinforces my attention to energy and climate as key issues.

 

On the way home, we found gasoline for $3.49 in Waynesboro, Virginia. We had…

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I have been doing two monthly sustainability video-discussion events for almost a 18 months. As usual, I didn't think to post the most recent events here, even they were on the Transition movement. I don't think I've ever had a response from this website. I was surprised by a nice turnout for both the Doylestown and the Warminster, PA events. Sold (at cost) several copies of the Trans Initiatives Primer. I missed out getting mailing list at both, but can recover most. I knew about half of the… Continue

Here's a cautionary tale that I found on a recent ENN post that points to the value of promoting community resilience.



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By Colleen Kimmett March 12, 2009 04:17 pm

(Editor's note: Kimmett is blogging about From the Ground Up, a conference on sustainable communities, hosted by the Columbia Institute last week in Harrison.)



Dawson Creek has a reputation of being one of B.C.'s most progressive municipalities when it comes to renewable energy.



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