When it comes to sustainability, act locally

What will our local communities look like in 2025?

If peak oil is real, the supply of fossil fuels in the future will be severely limited and supplying it will be cost prohibitive. Cheap oil will be exhausted when the amount we can pump from the ground (or make from tar sands) is less than the amount we consume to run our economy. How will we heat our homes and gas up our cars and trucks in 2015, or 2025? How will we afford food grown thousands of miles away that needs to be refrigerated and shipped here? How can industries reliant on cheap oil continue to manufacture cheap goods and employ America’s growing population? How will we get to work?

During the past century the world has seen growth on an unprecedented scale