The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality (54 page)
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Authors: Richard Heinberg
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15. Colleen Kimmet, “Better Than A Food Bank,” Energy Bulletin, posted November 5, 2010; Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center,
mmfec.org
.
16. Marcin Jakubowski, “Global Village Construction Set,” Make, Green Project Contest,
makezine.com/tagyourgreen/detail.csp?id=95
.
17. “The JAK Members Bank,” JAK Medlemsbank,
jak.aventus.nu/22.php
.
18. “Sustainable Commercial Urban Farm Incubator (SCUFI) Program,”
VirtuallyGreen.com
.
19. John Michael Greer, The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2009), p. 76.
20. Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage,
dancingrabbit.org
.
21. Diana Leafe Christian, Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2007) and Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2003); Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture Magazine, communities.
ic.org
; Global Ecovillage Network,
gen.ecovillage.org
.
22. You can also access a trove of articles about them through YES! Magazine.
23. The phrase “great turning” has been used by activist and Buddhist teacher Joanna Macy, and was adopted by David Korten as the title of a recent book. The “turning” I am referring to is perhaps less politically and spiritually nuanced than what Macy and Korten describe.
24. Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (New York: Basic Books, 2009).
R
ICHARD
H
EINBERG
is the author of nine award-winning books including
The Party’s
Over
,
Powerdown
,
Peak Everything
, and
Blackout
. He is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. He is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for excellence in energy education, and since 2002 has given over 400 lectures on fossil fuel depletion to audiences around the world. He has been published in
Nature
, the world’s premiere scientific journal; he has been quoted in
Time
magazine; he has been featured in television and theatrical documentaries including Leonardo DiCaprio’s “11th Hour”; and he has been interviewed on national radio and television in seven countries. To learn more about Richard and his work, visit
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