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Peak Oil Vignette 7 -The College

The community had always just assumed that there would be a college in town. It had been a feature of…

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Posted in: Castlegar, Peak Oil Vignettes, Sustainability Filed under: Castlegar, Education, futurism, Kootenays, peak oil, Selkirk College, tertiary education, urban farming 2d Comments

Peak Oil Vignette 6 – A Trip into Town

Jude stood on the simple wooden train platform, it was just long enough to accommodate a family of four, and…

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Posted in: Kootenays, Peak Oil Vignettes, Rural, Transitions, Transportation Filed under: Big-box store, Columbia, fiction, Kootenay, peak oil, Rail transport, Railway platform, Train, Trains and Railroads 3d Comments

Peak Oil Vignette 5 – Hope and Reality

Walking from the large brick building that used to house the airport terminal operations, but now was given new life…

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Posted in: Castlegar, Community, Development, Peak Oil Vignettes, Sustainability, Transitions, Urban Farming Filed under: Castlegar, farming, fiction, fuit, Kootenays, orchard, peak oil, stories, Transitions, urban agriculture, urban farming 6d Comments

Peak Oil Vignette 4 – Summer Harvest

I straightened up from the soothing task of weeding the rows of baby carrots, rubbing my back as I watched…

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Posted in: Peak Oil Vignettes, Sustainability, Urban Farming Filed under: farming, fiction, future, goats, Health, peak oil, simple life, simple living, story, urban agriculture, urban farming

Peak Oil Vignette 3 – River Traders

He walked through the hazy morning sunshine, the dew seeping into the toes of his well-worn shoes. Some of the…

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Posted in: Peak Oil Vignettes, Sustainability, Transportation Filed under: commerce, fiction, local currency, peak oil, River, trading 2d Comments

Peak Oil Decision Making

“Every decision made in any level of government should aim to reduce the use of fossil fuels and energy in…

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Posted in: Development, Energy, Regulation, Sustainability Filed under: Cities, engineering, infrastructure, infrastructure deficit, municipalities, oil, peak oil 4d Comments

Peak Oil Vignette 2 – Buses

People used to walk for pleasure, now they walk because it is too expensive to drive anywhere that you could…

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Posted in: Peak Oil Vignettes Filed under: buses, linkedin, peak oil

Peak Oil Vignette 1 – Gas

Tempers flared as residents demanded the fuel that they know was non-existent. The previously daily routine of delivery trucks rolling into town had become an erratic affair, best described as disappointingly infrequent.

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Posted in: Peak Oil Vignettes, Transportation Filed under: fiction, peak oil, remote communities, Rural, rural living, stories, Transportation, trucks, vignette, Winter

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