Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
For 40 years, Community Solution has been advocating a return from big cities and sprawling suburbs to small, rural communities. In the last three years, the group has focused on how peak oil is going to force America to decentralize whether we like it or not.
Less power to the people
Power-grid report suggests dark days ahead
Lightbulb giveaway is switched off
Peak oil update: production forecasts and EIA oil production
Fear and money in Dubai
Oil prices: a pause, then up
Unholy trinity set to drag us into the abyss
ASPO: European Union addresses Peak Oil
ASPO: Oil Depletion Protocol
Citing heavenly injunctions to fight earthly warming
Climate change is expensive. Does that help?
Climate change inaction will cost trillions
New combatant against global warming: insurance industry
It’s official: climate change changes everything
Dow CEO on energy and economic growth
Dupont’s sustainability commitment
Germany’s Merkel calls competition key to power prices
Chomsky: U.S. intervention in Venezuela and in Latin America
Iraq envoy: U.S. oil investment waiting on legal changes
China drills where others dare not seek oil
Grain stockpiles at lowest for 25 years
Australia: Farming economy in ‘drought crisis’
Kansas: Aquifer crisis for agriculture
The Vegetable-Industrial Complex
The Politics on Our Plates
Organic®
The world’s shortest Peak Oil article
Large increase of Peak Oil coverage in printed press
NYT: The Deathwatch for Cheap Oil
Kunstler: Swan Dive
Kunstler: Peak oil and tradable paper currencies
Lundberg: Peak Oil naysayers partying on for growth
Peak Moment Television: new episodes
Audio: Andrews & Lawrence on ASPO USA Boston Conference
Audio: Energy expert Hughes gives preview of talk at ASPO
How Long Can the World Feed Itself?
Time to become a “locavore”
Locavores in Willits?
Breakfast of Chumps
Green is the New Black in Ethical Britain
The US military oil consumption is generally regarded to be a small amount compared to the country’s gigantic consumption. Since oil is and will remain a strategic vital commodity, the Pentagon does not have a luxury of turning its back to oil.
Even coal (clean or not) will not save the US way of life
Kremlin seeks more coal use in Russia amid gas shortage
Massive coal mine blaze still burning
Output drop hurts UK Coal
Participants at last month’s Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions learned how they must use less energy, save and share resources and grow food in their communities. This response to the coming peak and permanent decline of global oil production, is dubbed “Plan C: Curtailment, Cooperation, and Community.”
