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Urbanites help sustain Japan’s historic rice paddy terraces

If flocks of city-dwellers will trek to steep hillside paddies to work in the damp spring weather, then nothing seems impossible.

Peak oil notes - May 23

A mid-week update. Oil prices have fallen $2-3 a barrel this week on weaker …

Two notions of liberty revisited - or how to disentangle Liberty and Slavery

"Freedom is the natural faculty to do whatever one wishes that is not …

Will the International Energy Agency's oil forecast be wrong again?

The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, …

Bike revolutions - May23

•Bike Sharing Prepares to Get its World Rocked •Social Bicycles Brings Sharing to Two Wheels •The two-wheel entrepreneurs: bike …

Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Energy Is Putting Power Back in the Hands of the People

The sun is waiting to be tapped for clean, cheap energy if we can get our heads out of the sand.
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Too soon to tell: The case for hope, continued

Ten years ago, as a contrarian and a person who prefers not to see others suffer, I tried to undermine despair with the case for hope.

Who Will Control the Climate of the World?  

For all who love a conspiracy, geoengineering has it all. The oil companies, …

Difficult Truths about 'Difficult Oil'

As we work down the hydrocarbon pyramid, energy gets messier and much more …

Thinking of starting a Transition Initiative?

Are you thinking about starting a new Transition initiative in your town, …

The Politics of Time's Shape

To begin with, it’s important to recognize that no fixed …

We plant trees, but why?

An interview with Joseph Redwood-Martinez about the documentary 'One day, everything will be free' which explores a reforestation initiative in …

Energy Return on Investment

EROI studies for most energy resources show a decline, indicating that depletion has been more important than technological improvements over time.

For Africa’s Solar Sisters, Off-Grid Electricity Is Power

U.S. businesswoman Katherine Lucey is working with a network of women …

The Seed Underground

A delightful and thoroughly enjoyable read: in my many years of reading …

Tornadoes, Extreme Weather And Climate Change, Revisited

The big tornado outbreak, including a monster Oklahoma twister, have people …

Spring Time?

I have ruminated enough times on this blog about climate change that it …

Earth Trek: The Journey Home

Lurking behind the cover story of terrorism and modern unease is an even …

Why Austerity Kills: From Greece to U.S., Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis

"Had austerity been organized like a clinical trial, it would’ve …

Shale gas, tight oil, and fracking - May 21

•At margins of shale oil boom, a tempered euphoria •Fracking envy …

Hope from the margins

These notes offer a quick glance to ways, in the south of Mexico, in which …

Half of oil burnable in 2000-2050 to keep us within 2 degrees warming has been used up as we hit 400 ppm

We have a race between peak oil and global warming. Symptoms of these …
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