Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A voice for change echoes across the land. Energy policy even earned more than lip service in many races. Yet the ink on the e-vote tally wasn’t even dry when Detroit’s own Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), ranking member in line to chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee, declared that he wouldn’t raise fuel-efficiency standards for U.S. automobiles. …This is nuts.
A new study states that the water supply required for Canadian Oil sands production is unsustainable. Environmental damages related to bitumen production could eventually affect an area the size of England.
Manufacturers in the EU will be required to calculate the energy used to produce, transport, sell, use, and dispose of almost every one of its products. And in time, it will set limits on a product-by-product basis of how much energy can be used in a product’s entire lifecycle.
Snowy Hydro storages reach all-time November low
Drought to hit dinner table
PM quibbles as drought deepens
Grain Drain Down Under
The rise of solar: why the sun is shining on main street
Sharp expands solar cell output by factor of six
Sand Trap – silicon shortages
Jeff Vail on Energy Payback from Photovoltaics and
Investment in Complexity
The Elf Queen, the sun and the Tower of Tomorrow
Silicon and sun (and sea sponges)
Cheap, superefficient solar
Growth in carbon emissions is ‘out of control’ /
News analysis: climate change /
War footing against global warming /
Shameful editorial from Le Monde
When it comes to taking action on climate change, the focus always seems to be on what each of us can do personally. Perhaps you, too, are wondering what part business, industry and governments have to play?
I suspect that our site (peakoil.com), along with some others have been taken off the filtered site list in China’s firewall. This probably represents a change in policy for China. We welcome our Chinese visitors of course & hope to bring them into the conversation.
The approach which is hardest to sell seems like the safest. It relies on the concrete, concerted actions of people everywhere doing things that require no miracles of technology, no rosy assumptions about the future availability of critical resources, and only limited faith in the marketplace. It is an approach that one can get started on today without the enactment of any big government program.
A drop-sized way to bring clean water to a thirsty world /
Toilets underused to fight disease: U.N. study /
China – threat of 60 million obese citizens
Relocalize Network Newsletter for November /
One billion trees – their ecological services /
A trip to the Agroforestry Research Trust’s forest garden
