Relocalize Now! : Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil -- A Post Carbon Guide

by Darley, Julian; Room, David; Rich, Celine

• ISBN13: 9780865715455
• ISBN10: 0865715459
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-25
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

On hearing about the coming energy crisis and impending ecological collapse many people ask: But what can I do? 'Relocalize Now!' provides the best answers to date. This timely guide from the Post Carbon Institute analyses the full depth of the crisis of industrial civilisation, outlines the centrality of the global economic system in this crisis, and then proposes a plan for the global relocalisation of our way of life. It promotes the idea of people recreating local communities - or 'outposts' - at the level of neighbourhood and nation that can begin to build 'parallel public infrastructures' for survival, along with ways of networking efforts together for wider support. It does this through presenting specific programs to create local money, energy, transportation, governance and food systems designed to help communities become self-reliant right now, and broader policy strategies that must be addressed at the political and institutional level as soon as possible to help communities create a long-term system adapted for a post-carbon age. The book's innovative project ideas such as a community retirement fund and corporate disobedience -- nonviolent ways to disengage from globalisation - are supplemented by practical tools for relocalising and examples of charter outposts from LA to Alaska and Toronto. With a glossary and an extensive resources section, Relocalize Now! contains all you need to build the alternative.