Civic resilience
Supporting Citizen-initiated Neighborhood Resilience
The accelerating climate emergency may overwhelm public and private institutions, forcing citizens to respond unaided. But how well could neighbors care for themselves if events gravely reduce the availability of local services?
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Universities and localization
Summary – Research universities have as their current primary mission a focus that is likely at odds with the emerging decline in surplus energy, and may be at odds with the global climate crisis. But they are among the more flexible institutions in modern society.
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Supporting behavioral entrepreneurs
Summary – Techno-industrial societies face harsh biophysical limits and the negative consequences of disrupting Earth’s ecosystems. This new reality creates a new behavioral context with an unmistakable demand: Citizens of such societies must turn away from seeking new resources and new way to use those resources,
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Localization: Research projects (Updated: May 31, 2020)
Since 2007, when a Localization Seminar was first taught at the University of Michigan, a number of graduate student research projects have been completed on topics such as local food systems, neighborhood resilience, voluntary simplicity, energy descent, environmental psychology,
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Declining net energy
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The challenge of declining net energy
EROEI and ECoE
ENERGY TAX
Is energy cost of energy a carbon tax. Certainly energy cost of energy going up doesn’t change the amount of carbon that is emitted in the gross use.
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Localization: Research projects (Updated: May 31, 2019)
Since 2007, when a Localization Seminar was first taught at the University of Michigan, a number of graduate student research projects have been completed on topics such as local food systems, neighborhood resilience, voluntary simplicity, energy descent, environmental psychology,
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Localization: Research projects
Since 2007, when a Localization Seminar was first taught at the University of Michigan, a number of graduate student research projects have been completed on topics such as local food systems, voluntary simplicity, energy descent, environmental psychology, and psychological well-being.
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