While Plans A and B seek to maintain unsustainable levels of resource consumption through energy alternatives, Plan C advocates for cultural change.

Plan A – More and dirtier fuels like tar sands, oil shale, coal-to-liquids, and “clean” coal (bury CO2) or riskier (nuclear) fuels to keep up with growing energy consumption.

This is not a solution.

Plan B – The "clean and green" approach proposes using large-scale renewables like wind, solar and biofuels to maintain our high energy way of life and keep us complacent and consuming. We can all drive electric cars and pluggable hybrids (CO2 reductions of 15-25%) and follow the Energy Star and LEED certification programs for "green building" (energy savings of 15-30%), and all will be well...

This is not a solution.

Plan C – Our strategy of curtailment, cooperation and community.

Through reductions in resource consumption, dramatic conservation and curtailment of energy use coupled with an increase in local community living we can stop global warming and survive Peak Oil even as we create a more equitable, sustainable world. Plan C addresses many of today’s issues head on, focusing primarily on the three areas of our lives where we currently use the most energy.

Explore our solutions: Food, Housing, Transportation.