Written By: weka - Date published: 10:33 am, May 10th, 2024 - 60 comments
Categories: climate change, public transport
Tags: limits of growth, neoliberalism, power cuts, powerdown
…. Which leads me to the Powerdown. The current idea that we… first wrote about the Powerdown in 2017, The Powerdown is a process… zero is not enough. The Powerdown is not based on high…. In other words, we can powerdown and live good, meaningful lives…
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:05 am, August 18th, 2023 - 7 comments
Categories: climate change, cost of living, disaster, election 2023
Tags: Cyclone Gabrielle, transition, wildfires
…. Stories of proactive hope: The Powerdown Regenag How change happens What…
Written By: weka - Date published: 2:47 pm, December 4th, 2022 - 6 comments
Categories: climate change, poverty, sustainability
Tags: circular economy, cost of living crisis, degrowth, doughnut economics, powerdown, relocalsing food, transition towns
Quick post with a few ideas that popped up this morning. This enhances life, No idea if Pete Seeger did in fact say that (and this is an edited version), but the gist is that not only could we be using a circular economy (transition without having to …
Written By: weka - Date published: 11:19 am, October 19th, 2022 - 19 comments
Categories: climate change, sustainability
Tags: regenerative politics, sunflowers
… that are transitioning now. The Powerdown Regenerative agriculture Food Forests Local…
Written By: weka - Date published: 11:39 am, September 20th, 2022 - 32 comments
Categories: climate change, Economy, ETS
Tags: Climate Change Comission, powerdown, Rodd Carr
… state. I write about the Powerdown. If you're feeling stuck or…
Written By: weka - Date published: 1:52 pm, July 16th, 2022 - 68 comments
Categories: climate change, disaster
Tags:
… fossil fuel usage fast. The Powerdown Hope Punk Regenerative change How…
Written By: weka - Date published: 11:55 am, June 7th, 2022 - 10 comments
Categories: climate change
Tags: 350, powerdown, ppm, rob hopkins
…. The green pathway is the powerdown. This is us learning to…
Written By: weka - Date published: 8:49 am, April 6th, 2022 - 55 comments
Categories: climate change, sustainability
Tags: IPCC, just transition, powerdown
… be done. Just Transition, the Powerdown, The Great Turning, they're all…. Stories of proactive hope: The Powerdown Regenag How change happens What…
Written By: weka - Date published: 12:17 pm, December 24th, 2021 - 12 comments
Categories: covid-19, health and safety, long covid, workers' rights
Tags: powerdown, resiliency
… what I write about the Powerdown (and not coincidentally, there is… much in the powerdown knowledge base that can help…
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:15 am, December 22nd, 2021 - 22 comments
Categories: business, economy, sustainability, transport
Tags: climate action, food resiliency, how change happens, local food, longwood loop, powerdown, regenerative economics, resiliency, Riverton, robyn guyton, southland
Joanna Macy, elder of the transition movements based in life-affirming models of our future, has a threefold model of change: Holding Patterns (think conventional protest movements), Alternative Structures (eg Doughnut economics, community gardens, …
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:05 am, September 8th, 2021 - 13 comments
Categories: climate change, disaster
Tags: how change happens, powerdown, roger hallam
…: Regenag How Change Happens The Powerdown
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:05 am, August 10th, 2021 - 130 comments
Categories: climate change, disaster, sustainability
Tags: anthropocene, Glenn Albrecht, how change happens, how things change, powerdown, regenag, resiliency, symbiocene
… stories of proactive hope: The Powerdown Regenag How change happens What…
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:43 am, August 4th, 2021 - 22 comments
Categories: climate change
Tags: david holmgren, nasty brutish and short, permaculture, powerdown
… see the value in the Powerdown. If the capitalism-driven climate… means that approaches like the Powerdown inherently include humans being ok…
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:00 am, July 22nd, 2021 - 75 comments
Categories: climate change, disaster
Tags: deep green politics, doughnut economics, how change happens, kate raworth, limits to growth, post-growth
… difference. I've written about the Powerdown as a way of fast…
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:05 am, June 16th, 2021 - 69 comments
Categories: climate change, sustainability, transport
Tags: car culture, just transition, powerdown, rural affairs
The Greens put out a press release a few weeks ago, "welcoming the Government’s renewed commitment to safe walking and cycling across the Waitematā Harbour, but warning that new highway investment puts our response to the climate change emergency at risk."…
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:05 am, May 6th, 2021 - 94 comments
Categories: climate change, economy, farming, food, sustainability
Tags: regenag, regenerative agriculture, regenerative economics
… options we have are to Powerdown, or adopt regenerative models like…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:01 am, February 14th, 2021 - 87 comments
Categories: climate change, sustainability
Tags: powerdown, richard heinberg
This recent essay from Powerdown author Richard Heinberg, states the …
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:11 am, January 31st, 2021 - 99 comments
Categories: climate change, james shaw
Tags: climate action, climate activism, climate change commission, David Tong, how change happens, zero carbon act
… is insufficient, there's also the Powerdown, and we should still be…
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:05 am, January 4th, 2021 - 19 comments
Categories: climate change
Tags: citizen's assembly, climate action, climate emergency, how change happens, powerdown
… looking for proactive pathways, the Powerdown engenders hope, a sense of…
Written By: RedLogix - Date published: 7:46 am, December 11th, 2020 - 62 comments
Categories: energy, Environment, global warming, uncategorized
Tags: energy, global warming
… to reliably enforce such a powerdown, indefinitely into the future, it's…
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:05 am, December 4th, 2020 - 118 comments
Categories: climate change, sustainability
Tags: BECCS, CCS, climate action, powerdown
… why I write about the Powerdown, a framework for acting fast… about the green tech vs powerdown realities. For those of us…
Written By: weka - Date published: 8:50 am, November 16th, 2020 - 90 comments
Categories: climate change, Economy, sustainability, transport
Tags: degrowth, energy descent, powerdown, susan krumdieck, transition engineering
…instead we will need to powerdown. John McCrone at Stuff interviewed…growing economy. Her solution? To powerdown, probably to something like the…wrote a post about the Powerdown a few years ago, … living for humans. The Powerdown is a process where societies…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:58 am, January 21st, 2020 - 38 comments
Categories: climate change, culture, Environment
Tags: how change happens, how to get there, powerdown, resiliency, richard heinberg
Richard Heinberg writes about humanity's relationship with power and how this presents both great danger and great opportunity. Originally published by Post Carbon Institute These days I’m deep in the process of writing a book on power—both physical power…
Written By: weka - Date published: 7:10 am, November 22nd, 2019 - 52 comments
Categories: climate change
Tags: australia, bushfires, climate adaptation, fire, how to get there, permaculture, powerdown, regenag, tipping point, transition towns
… take some comfort from the Powerdown, Transition, Permaculture, Regenerative movements, because…
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:31 am, November 8th, 2019 - 51 comments
Categories: activism, climate change, james shaw
Tags: how change happens, zero carbon act
… reasons for industrialised nations to Powerdown (while sharing resources with countries…, experience, and physical capacity to Powerdown and still live good lives…
Written By: weka - Date published: 1:05 pm, July 28th, 2017 - 33 comments
Categories: activism, climate change, Environment, sustainability
Tags: climate activism, david holmgren, powerdown, resiliency
… response to Climate Change. The Powerdown is a process whereby humans…
Written By: weka - Date published: 9:00 am, July 22nd, 2017 - 52 comments
Categories: climate change, disaster, Environment, science
Tags: james hansen, the long emergency
… fossil fuel use immediately. the Powerdown gives us the best shot…
Written By: weka - Date published: 12:10 pm, July 21st, 2017 - 56 comments
Categories: climate change, disaster, Economy, Environment, housing
Tags: rural affairs, whakatane
… lives. This is congruent with Powerdown thinking, where we make use…
Written By: weka - Date published: 12:31 pm, January 17th, 2017 - 115 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, peak oil, sustainability
Tags: david holmgren, energy descent, powerdown, richard heinberg, transition towns
…Heinberg wrote the book Powerdown: Options and Actions for…the options realistically available. Powerdown speaks frankly to these …of competition for remaining resources Powerdown: the path of cooperation…The concept of the Powerdown is challenging to many …
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