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Fwd: [P2P-F] Fw: PCI Messenger - Looking back, Looking forward

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Donate to Post Carbon  Read longer version newsletter online           contents    1. the oil journey    2. latest publications    3. the end of growth    4. energy bulletin picks    5. transition us update     What a year it's been: revolutions, protests, financial crises, high oil prices, a tsunami, massive floods, record droughts,...and all the many personal stories behind these headline events. PCI readers know that we're experiencing the effects of overshoot on a finite planet. But the mainstream narrative is still focused on a return to economic growth at any and all costs—literally. Our work is therefore more urgent than ever.Together, with your support, we've punched above our weight in 2011, and we want to do even more in 2012. The first item on the agenda is our new customizable presentation—You Are Here: The Oil Journey— that you can deliver in your community. Following shortly will be the release of Michael Shuman's new book Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity, just the first in a series of Community Resilience Guides. There's so much more, and we need your support. If you haven't done so already, and can pitch in with a contribution, please donate here.Thanks again for your help this year in spreading the word, and giving us feedback and ideas. Our very best wishes to you and yours for the holidays.From all of us at Post Carbon Institute. READ A LONGER VERSION OF THIS NEWSLETTER ONLINE you are here: the oil journey Thanks to your support, we have just completed "You Are Here: The Oil Journey." This is a customizable presentation *you* can use to tell your own journey and to invite new people to join the larger conversation. This animated slide show delivers PCI's core message honestly, but in a compassionate way that...well, just watch it and see for yourself. The recording presented above features the mellifluous voice of the legendary actor, author, screenwriter and narrator Peter Coyote. The video is intended as a model upon which you can base your own real-world presentations of the Oil Journey deck. Please feel free to share it with your friends and peers. WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRESENT THE OIL JOURNEY IN YOUR COMMUNITY? We'd love you to join our team of presenters. Contact us and we'll email you information about our coming Presenter Trainings. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUPPORT THIS PRESENTATION & PCI? We'd love to have your support. In fact, we depend upon it. Donate now and we'll keep products like these coming! Back to top latest publications Read, watch or listen to the latest content by our Fellows, Board, Advisers and Staff anytime on our website. Here are some selections from the last month: Buying Local Yields More Jobs, Stronger Communities Post by Michael Shuman • December 19, 2011 According to the National Retail Federation, Americans will spend an average of about $700 per person on holiday season shopping this year and, despite the hype surrounding Black Friday, the busiest shopping week... Read more     "Another world is not only possible...she's opening a bakery round the corner". Post by Rob Hopkins • December 15, 2011 I spent a fascinating afternoon on Monday at an 'Economic Summit' (nowhere near as glamorous as it sounds) for Members of South Hams District Council... Read more     Making 2012 The Year Resilience Built Post by Asher Miller • December 13, 2011 It's all too easy to feel that hope is lost. 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All the major players want growth... Read more       more on the end of growth Back to top energy bulletin highlights Below is a selection of recent articles and media appearing on Energy Bulletin. energy bulletin featured articles Soil Capital: A ground-level investing opportunity by Ellie Winninghoff, FA Green What would it be like to invest in—not just eat from—the veggie farmers, cheese artisans and ranchers at the local farmers' market? When Woody Tasch published his book, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money...Read more energy bulletin featured media Simplifying Complexity by Justin Ritchie & Seth Moser-Katz The Extraenvironmentalist In Extraenvironmentalist #31 we speak with Dr. Joseph Tainter about collapse, complexity and energy. 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Fwd: Keep the Change? Maybe Not.

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Your good thing today. View this newsletter in your browser → Spare Change for Social Change: Can Wasted Subway Fees Be Used for Public Good? TODAY'S GOOD 23% nixed nickles 30% dissed dimes 47% mini-fund  #swipeitgood New York City may be one of the most expensive places on earth, but that doesn't stop subway users from casting millions of dollars worth of rides to the wind each year. The Metropolitan Transit Authority generously gives subway riders a 7 percent bonus when they purchase a multi-ride pass. Yet this bonus often turns into a burden: 70 extra cents on a $10 purchase doesn't get anyone too far when a single ride costs $2.25. The flimsy plastic MetroCards are often chucked or ignored when the balance runs below the value of a ride, amounting to more than $52 million in unused fares each year. A new project from a trio of New York University students seeks to transform that monumental sum into a public good. MetroChange is their concept for a charity platform that would make it simple for subway riders to donate spare change to nonprofits. With a swipe at MetroChange kiosks set up in highly-trafficked subway stations around the city, subway riders could scan their card to see how much change was left. Then, with the push of a button, they could donate the balance. At the end of every month, MetroChange would turn that change into social change by donating it to charity. According to MetroChange, the idea would work best if the kiosks targeted tourists, who are less likely to refill their cards. But while it sounds like a simple, effective idea, founders Stepan Boltalin, Genevieve Hoffman, and Paul Maywill need to convince a key partner to sign on: the MTA. According to MetroChange's blog, they see two likely ways to partner: The MTA could agree to return the "unused value back to the community where it originated" or an outside group could agree to make a monthly match. MetroChange is actively recruiting partners. Message them via Twitter to send your ideas. –Zak Stone Photo via (cc) Flickr user paulmmay See a video and more photos of MetroChange on GOOD.is Popular on GOOD Go to the GOOD Homepage → Occupy Your Sidewalk With A Micro-Library Ballet Is the New Yoga Sell Your Breakup Memories Instead of Burning Them The Year in Education: Seven Innovations Changing the Way the World Learns The People We Said Goodbye To in 2011 Go to the GOOD Homepage → Tell us what's GOOD: Send us tips Sign Up for The Daily GOOD Get more GOOD: Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr

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Fwd: Occupy Your Sidewalk With A Micro-Library

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Your good thing today. View this newsletter in your browser → Occupy Your Sidewalk With A Micro-Library TODAY'S GOOD 33% librarian 33% community activist 33% carpenter  #bibliogeography Occupy Wall Street's "people's library" helped popularize the idea of book lending that takes place outside of library stacks. Now ousted from Liberty Plaza, OWS's community library has been shuttling alternative books to New York City protests via shopping carts and other "mobile units." Meanwhile, guerrilla librarians are occupying street corners across the country with more permanent community-curated micro-libraries. Since 2007, alterna-lender Colin McMullan has been learning the "quirks" of city regulations to figure out how to stash free reading materials in public spaces. McMullan launched Corner Libraries on a New Haven street corner before transplanting the idea to New York City. There, the project has toyed with distributing books via a chained-up sidewalk school desk, a book shed built to mimic a newspaper stand, a doghouse-shaped library living on a hand cart in Williamsburg, and now, micro-libraries built into tree pits on the city's streets. The library's current collection includes foraging tipsheet The Wild Food Trail Guide, a zine of handmade postcard art, and a mysterious self-made CD titled "I <3 Russian." "Members" are invited to donate their own pieces to the collection, or rent out materials for up to two weeks at a time. McMullan isn't the only lender operating outside the official library system—a group called the Little Free Library has installed hundreds of micro-lending stations largely on private properties around the United States and Canada. Thanks to volunteer "stewards" who build and install the mailbox-like structures outside their homes and workplaces, readers can find free reading materials in a front yard in Fayetteville, Arkansas; a dentist's office in Madison, Wisconsin; and an elementary school in El Paso, Texas. Amateur lenders can start their own mini libraries with the help of the organization's crowdsourced tips, which help would-be librarians find repurposed building materials, curate their own unique collections, and learn how to protect against vandals. Little Free Library was launched in the hopes of extending "the reach of your public library to parts of your community that might not otherwise use it," while Corner Libraries is "meant to encourage alternative and private presses" not supported by mainstream book lenders. McMullan told The Atlantic that he believes the library mindset "should be extended to everything, from tools to kitchen gadgets and sports equipment." Indeed, the librarians' websites read like manifestos, and the ethos is universal: "You can't steal a free book." Which book would you add to your street library? Tell us at GOOD.is → Popular on GOOD Go to the GOOD Homepage → The Longform Journalism Renaissance Sell Your Breakup Memories Instead of Burning Them May the Best Solar Panel Win: The Year in Green Innovation The Year in Education: Seven Innovations Changing the Way the World Learns Intermission: A Little Girl Calls Out Sexist Marketing Go to the GOOD Homepage → Photo (cc) via Flickr user hakamadare Tell us what's GOOD: Send us tips Sign Up for The Daily GOOD Get more GOOD: Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr

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