what do sub-prime mortgage have to do with Atlantic salmon, SUVs and globalization? They all depend on cheap oil, but oil is peaking so you can count the price of pump is going up and as transportation cost rises, so are the costs of our food. That means that we have to win ourselves fossil fuels and re-enginer our lives to adapt to a world with growing energy scarcity. A good news is our neighbor and your neighborhood are about to get a lot more important in the not too distant future. Margaret Mean, a famous anthropologist once said,