Community Solutions

Curtailment and Community

A basic societal transformation is needed to change from the three principle values of Competing, Hoarding and Consuming to values of Cooperating, Sharing and Conserving.

These latter values are easier to implement in small local communities where people know each other and have a history of working together. To usefully “think globally-act locally,” we must conserve here at home and we must cooperate at home and abroad in finding just and equitable solutions to the challenges of Peak Oil, climate change and inequity. By thinking this way, we can make choices that will bring life systems on the planet back into balance so that we can survive. The first steps are personal ones – changing our way of life to use as little energy as possible, keeping in mind the billions of poor people in the world as well as the welfare of our children and generations to come.

Chapters:
Plan A - Business as Usual
Plan B - Clean/Green Technology
Plan D – Die Off
Plan C - Curtailment and Community
Thinking Globally
A Global Relationship
Looking at U.S. Consumption
Reviewing Energy Options
The Psychology of Curtailment
Giving up Technology Worship
Personal Change vs. Municipality Change
Personal Impact on Institutional Energy Use
The Personal Picture – Food, Cars and Houses

Read the full report here: http://www.communitysolution.org/pdfs/NS10.pdf