Kunstler came to London in the summer to speak, didn’t he? I was thinking along his lines this morning as I was walking the three short block to where I work, past all the people trying to dig out their cars. I was thinking about the irony that everyone tells me it’s so convenient to have a car. No, convenience is a walkable neighbourhood with all the emenities close-by.

Kunstler came to London in the summer to speak, didn’t he? I was thinking along his lines this morning as I was walking the three short block to where I work, past all the people trying to dig out their cars. I was thinking about the irony that everyone tells me it’s so convenient to have a car. No, convenience is a walkable neighbourhood with all the emenities close-by.

I followed your link to Bowling Alone and read: America has civicly reinvented itself before — approximately 100 years ago at the turn of the last century.

I’ll look for the book at the local library when I pick up The Long Emergency (J. Kunstler) again; it focuses on the last 100 years, the century of cheap oil, and the positive and negative changes that occurred as a result of our dependence. The connection is made between cheap oil and our deteriorating communities.

Are we heading toward a time (age of expensive oil) when small festivals in identifiable communities will be more meaningful (and less costly to grow) than a large festival that needs the support of a city full of disconnected suburbs in order to survive?

thoughtful post, brian.

g. harrison

I followed your link to Bowling Alone and read: America has civicly reinvented itself before — approximately 100 years ago at the turn of the last century.

I’ll look for the book at the local library when I pick up The Long Emergency (J. Kunstler) again; it focuses on the last 100 years, the century of cheap oil, and the positive and negative changes that occurred as a result of our dependence. The connection is made between cheap oil and our deteriorating communities.

Are we heading toward a time (age of expensive oil) when small festivals in identifiable communities will be more meaningful (and less costly to grow) than a large festival that needs the support of a city full of disconnected suburbs in order to survive?

thoughtful post, brian.

g. harrison