May Day!
Every year on the first Sunday in May, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet Theater hosts the May Day Parade, which brings together tens of thousands of community members to celebrate spring and new life. This year the theme of the parade is Transition! It’s intended to help jump-start a community-wide movement towards a just, prosperous, resilient, and community-based future. Transition leaders from across the Twin Cities have helped shape that event, and now we’re looking for everyone to get involved. Join us at the May Day Parade on Sunday, May 6, 2012.
See our May Day page for ways you can contribute to this grand unleashing of Twin Cities transition!
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“Becoming Detroit,” by American Public Media
We travel to Detroit to meet the civil rights legend Grace Lee Boggs. We find the 96-year-old philosopher surrounded by creative, joyful people and projects that defy more familiar images of decline. It’s a kind of parallel urban universe with much to teach all of us about meeting the changes of our time…. listen to the show
“A City Prepares for a Warm Long-Term Forecast,” in the New York Times
The Windy City is preparing for a heat wave — a permanent one. Climate scientists have told city planners that based on current trends, Chicago will feel more like Baton Rouge than a Northern metropolis before the end of this century. So Chicago is getting ready… read more
“Peak Oil and a Changing Climate,” in The Nation
The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world’s supply of oil runs out? read more
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The Post-Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crisis
How do population, water, energy, food, and climate issues impact one another? What can we do to address one problem without making the others worse? The Post Carbon Reader features essays by some of the world’s most provocative thinkers on the key issues shaping our new century, from renewable energy and urban agriculture to social justice and community resilience. This insightful collection takes a hard-nosed look at the interconnected threats of our global sustainability quandary and presents some of the most promising responses.
Contributors to The Post Carbon Reader are some of the world’s leading sustainability thinkers, including Bill McKibben, Richard Heinberg, Stephanie Mills, David Orr, Wes Jackson, Erika Allen, Gloria Flora, and dozens more.
