Going forward into the peak oil decline years, strong local economies are all that stand between us and collapse... When people shift their money from trans-continental banks to local banks and credit unions, their money goes to work in their own neighborhood and strengthens the real, local economy where they live and work.

Surrounded by shade trees and gardens, about 200 people, a surprising number for such a rural setting, stood around in little knots talking spiritedly about subjects that all came under the heading of Home Economics: local food; natural medicine; home-based alternative energy; home birthing; home schooling, even, get this, home churching.

Stark warning on Britain's shrinking coast
Town that gave itself a licence to print money
Locals barter for beer with food

Profile of bio-regionalist Stephanie Mills
How to cut your fuel bills 80% or more (software)
Introducing a new currency - the "Carbon"
Burbank Water & Power: Smart grids, WiFi, renewables

What could wreck the world's currencies is a desire to offset the effects of the ever-tightening noose of resource scarcity caused by the approach of peak oil, the march of climate change, and the rapid industrialization of the Far East. The desire to offset these effects is already expressing itself through easy money policies and the financing of government expenditures through borrowing rather than taxation.

Clothing (partially) made in Vermont
Megan Quinn Bachman interview
WorldChanging: How are you preparing to survive?

Economics in Transition (alternative currencies)
Price tag in mortgage crisis is looking like real money
Review of Squeezed: Diary Of The Onset Of The Greater Depression

Australia’s first Transition Town!
Investing that is really socially responsible
Life without lights in a Ghanaian village
Trials and tribulations of setting up a local Climate Action group

David Blume's Alcohol Can Be A Gas book
LS9 promises 'renewable petroleum'

Poison plant could help to cure the planet
The ethanol effect

New age town in U.S. embraces dollar alternative
Notes on the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair
Alex Steffen: Limits and brilliance