RelocalizeNow Victoria
Victoria, BC, Canada. This is a personal website maintained as a public service. Suggestions? email: RLNVictoria@shaw.ca Last updated: August 30, 2007
- If you are new to the concept of Peak Oil, see the documentary "The End of Surburbia" for a quick shot in the arm.
- It can be found at http: Rogers Video
- Or purchased from amazon.com
- There are also some Peak Oil videos on the web:
- Running on Empty
- Real Oil Crisis
- Oil, Smoke and Mirrors and an Oil, Smoke and Mirrors mirror
- Asleep in America
- Four Corners Peak Oil
- A Crude Awakening
- Future Shock - Peak Oil in Ireland
- But End of Suburbia is the best - watch it!
- Otherwise you can visit one of the many websites devoted to this issue.
- Life After the Oil Crash
- Beyond Peak
- Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
- The Community Solution
- Even Chevron believes in Peak Oil now!
- Or read some books on the topic
- including a Canadian perspective on Peak Oil.
- Visit The PostCarbon Institute.
- and its Vancouver outpost. Unfortunately, there is no local branch of PCI affiliated with Victoria. Stay tuned.
- Here are Ten Steps for a Transition-town Initiative.
- Also, GRITS has some good ideas. It can be downloaded for $1.25 US.
- Dump your vehicle. Read Divorce Your Car! for inspiration.
- Ride a bike:
- Take the bus.
- Become a member of Victoria Car Share Coop.
- Or rideshare.
- Have local food delivered to you. Share Organics delivers by bicycle!
- Or try SPUD.
- And when all else fails there's Thrifty Foods.
- Join the 100 mile diet
- and the BC Food Systems Network Society
- and the Food Roots Cooperative
- and the Good Food Box.
- Become a member of the Keating Farm Cooperative and
- keep a lookout for a community farm to appear at Beckwith Farms.
- Perhaps someone in Victoria could develop a Neighborhood Produce Exchange, too.
- Is the Vancouver Island food supply vulnerable? Yes!
- Every lawn should be a garden!
- Check out the LifeCycles Project
- LifeCycles: Fruit Tree Project
- LifeCycles: Share a Backyard with a gardener.
- Listen to Deconstructing Dinner and urban agrigulture in BC
- Buy locally produced seeds that are intended for our climate! Try
- Visit the Greater Victoria Compost Education Center.
- Become a city farmer - Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture
- Read Steve Solomon's Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades
- and his Gardening When it Counts.
- Wade through the City Farmer Urban Agricultural Notes
- Then Go Permaculture!
- The Path to Freedom: Fantastic home-scale permaculture video! -- Website
- BC Sustainable Energy Association
- BC Hydro Net Metering
- A Consumer Guide to Green Power in Canada
- GeoExchangeBC
- Canadian Wind Energy Association
- Renewable Energy Access - Geothermal
- Earth Energy Society of Canada
- Canadian Tire goes green.
- If you have a mortgage, consider switching to a fixed rate while they are still low. It seems that not many people know that it is possible to get a 25-year fixed rate loan in Canada.
- Do you have ESP?
- Tips for saving energy.
- Sustainability Victoria.
- Guy Dauncey's EarthFuture
- Victoria is home to The Dogwood Initiative.
- Victoria has SOUL.
- Visit:
- SEEDS, a Saltspring Ecovillage, and
- Eco Reality and
- Sustain Mayne and
- O.U.R. EcoVillage at Shawnigan Lake, and
- The Bullock's Permaculture Homestead on Orca's Island, and
- EcoSense and
- The Kootenay Permaculture Institute
- Local:
- Global:
- The Community Solution: Resources
- End of Suburbia Links
- MuseLetter Links
- PostCarbon Institute
- Seedlinks
- Read the Complete List of Things Caused by Global Warming
- and then measure your footprint.