Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Deceptive statements now dominate the political discourse on America’s oil crisis in the 2008 presidential campaign. The confused debate about Republican supply-side measures versus Democratic demand-side measures entirely misses the central point: domestic oil production is about to experience a mini-peak in the years 2010-11 and then resume its inevitable decline.
While some sort of quantitative evaluation of our future would be nice, $200 oil easily could be here before anyone can crunch the numbers.
IMF finally knocks on Uncle Sam’s door
Midwest floods spotlight decrepit infrastructure
House hearing on climate change: costs of inaction
Georgia Judge cites carbon dioxide in denying coal plant permit
Airbus And Boeing face a dark and painful future
Big job cuts announced at American
Car sales at 10-year low
SUV drivers burned twice: at the pump, on the car lot
New book from John Michael Greer: The Long Descent
A Crash course in burning bridges (Zachary Nowak interview)
Alex Steffen: Resilient community
The end Of civilization
Energy prices: What’s supply got to do with it?
Senate hearing on EIA’s forecasts for oil
The commodities bubble
Dale Allen Pfeiffer: Dealing with gasoline prices
‘Free sharing’ sites expand on Internet
Our ‘insanely cheap’ chest refrigerator
Stone ground goodness (learning to be a miller)
Taking care of yourself and medical survival
Transition town gets moving in Bay of Islands, NZ
Your brain lies to you
AP took it to the wire but needs to rethink its role (Associated Press vs bloggers)
Here Comes Everybody – falling in love with the Internet all over again
Chinese bloggers scale the ‘Great Firewall’ in riot’s aftermath
At the Tällberg Forum in Tällberg, Dalarna, Sweden, Chief Jake Swamp from the Akwesasne Mohawk Tribe and I had a conversation about “What lifestyles without oil?”.
Too many visions of the future treat today’s particular form of technological society as the only form there is. A glance at one of today’s many technological subcultures shows that other alternatives exist — and some may be much better suited than our present form to the needs of a postpeak world.
A mid-week update on peak oil:
– Oil prices
– The World Petroleum Congress
– Iranian nuclear enrichment
