One of the inevitable realities where people get poorer and are subject to more climate-related and infrastructure failure disasters is that people have to take in friends and family who have no other place to go. Hurricane Katrina, for example, for several million people represented an exercise in shared housing - sometimes for a short while, sometimes for a long one.

The first half of this essay sketched out the unfamiliar terrain that's beginning to open out in front of the peak oil community as the concept of hard energy limits seeps back out into public awareness, after thirty years of exile in the Siberia of the imagination where our society imprisons its unwelcome truths.

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Work Action and Community Rally Planned for June 24th
by Kevin O'Toole
Toronto Media Coop

TORONTO - The International Union of Food and Allied Workers (IUF) is planning a global day of action on June 24th in defense of workers’ right to organize unions, the Toronto Media Co-op has learned.

Representatives from communities across Canada and around the world met in Toronto May 7-9, 2010, to discuss the impacts Canadian mining companies are having on their communities.

The delegates plan to meet again in Toronto on June 22 to discuss the establishment of a pan-American network that will unite community and solidarity groups throughout the Americas.

Hello, everyone! Below is our much-belated court update from the last pre-trial appearance. Our apologies for the delay. Our limited time and energ...