Cohousing-L Mailing List: Heinberg and Peak Oil

[O3C11N6G (normangauss]

Richard Heinberg is one of the world's foremost Peak Oil (oil depletion) 
educators and is a Research Fellow of Post Carbon Institute. He is the 
author of eight books including The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of 
Industrial Societies (New Society, 2003, 2005), Powerdown: Options and 
Actions for a Post-Carbon World (New Society, 2004), and The Oil Depletion 
Protocol (New Society, 2006).

He is a journalist, educator, editor, lecturer, a Core Faculty member of New 
College of California where he teaches a program on "Culture, Ecology and 
Sustainable Community," and a Research Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. 
He is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. His 
monthly MuseLetter has been included in Utne Magazine's annual list of Best 
Alternative Newsletters. Since 2002, he has given over three hundred 
lectures on oil depletion ("Peak Oil") to a wide variety of audiences-from 
insurance executives to peace activists, from local and national elected 
officials to Jesuit volunteers. Richard is married to 
horticulturist/herbalist/massage therapist Janet Barocco; they live in a 
suburban house retrofitted for energy efficiency and food production. 
Richard's primary hobby is playing the violin. He performs frequently with 
chamber groups and jazz ensembles.






The above material was copied from www.richardheinbberg.org/bio

Norm Gauss

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim & Lisa Gregg" <tilig [at] centurytel.net>
To: "'Cohousing-L'" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Some life and cohousing advise


> Charles, that is so interesting about industrialization being an aberrant
> condition in the big scheme of things.  I've often wondered what it was
> about this past century in the US that created this nuclear family 
> culture.
> I would like to hear more about that idea sometime if you have the time or
> inclination.
>
> Who is Richard Heinberg?  Author?  If so, what book/s?  Thanks, Lisa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: balaji [at] ouraynet.com [mailto:balaji [at] ouraynet.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 3:57 PM
> To: Cohousing-L
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Some life and cohousing advise
>
> Robert is absolutely correct, and indeed, his view is in accord with
> everything we know from studying community.  I'm a cultural
> anthropologist, and I've done fieldwork for thirty years in India, mostly,
> and in Japan.  Communities "work" because humans are adapted for
> cooperation.  They are disagreemens, to be sure, but the long-term effect
> of conflict resolution is usually to strengthen community bonds.  When
> exceptions occur, it is because of peculiar or aberrant conditions; some
> would say the period of industrialization in the West constitutes one such
> aberrant condition.  If Richard Heinberg and others are correct, we are
> going to have to relearn the skills the rest of the world never forgot --
> skills of living and working in community.  The good news is that we are
> genetically prepared for this kind of adaptation.  Cohousing is just
> another road "back to the village."
>
> I look forward to making the journey.
>
> Best,
>
> Charles Nuckolls
>
> P.S. Our community in formation is called "Utah Valley Cohousing
> Community" and can be found on the Yahoo disucssion site.
>
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