Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Neighbourhood green spaces turned into affordable ‘edible’ landscapes / Greenpeace launch new film on decentralised energy / Bryant Terry, food-justice activist, answers readers’ questions /
“EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature” – new edition / “Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times” – new book
How will peak oil play out in real estate? … Shortly before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit our Gulf and southeast coasts last August, we reached, I feel, a peak in real estate values that we will probably not see again in our lifetimes.
Greenland’s ice sheet is slip-sliding away / Study finds strong warming tie to hurricanes /
Humans ‘destroying coastal life’ since Roman times
Ethanol Boom Reshapes Economy of Heartland /
A Range of Estimates on Ethanol’s Benefits (EROEI) /
Grain drain /
Fill ‘er Up — With Food /
Add Biobutanol To Your Vocab Of Alternative Fuels
A heavy carbon tax means enormous revenues, enough to eliminate not just workers’ social security payments but, most likely, all federal income taxes on everyone’s first $100,000 of income, and state sales taxes to boot. Most important, the carbon tax could revitalize our society.
I was so stimulated to be among people who had chosen to take a course in environmental leadership that I found myself being outraged and confrontational when they ran contrary to my expectations. I succumbed to being “greener than thou”.
What kind of mess would we find ourselves in, should a sudden reduction in the scope of trade relations visit the entire globe – a reduction precipitated by extremely high oil prices?
Simmons’ alarm over the lack of a “Plan B” to replace our status-quo petroleum dependence has lately turned him into something more like an Ecotopian than a soldier for nonstop industrialization of the entire world.
U.S. panel backs data on global warming / Moms, guilt, and climate catastrophe / Reduce aviation’s expansion or give up on tackling climate change / Norway sees N.Sea as CO2 dump, but legal hurdles /
US: Surge of population in the exurbs continues /
Getting to the [climate change] holdouts
California highlights U.S. oil import dependence / Carnegie Mellon researchers like switchgrass /
EU in doubt over alternatives to oil / IEA: clean technology could cut world energy consumption in half / IEA: world not on course for sustainable energy / Coal in China / Age taking its toll on interstates
Friedman’s Addicted to Oil documentary this weekend on Discovery / Podcast – Kunstler: PO Impacts on Transportation and Cities / Michael Ruppert’s economic forecast / T. Boone Pickens on Charlie Rose / Yuba Gals “Peak Moment TV” on the road / James Schlesinger: Thinking seriously about energy and oil’s future
The biggest problem with our bounty of coal is not what it does to our mountains or the atmosphere, but what it does to our minds. It preserves the illusion that we don’t have to change our lives. Given the profound challenges we face with the end of cheap oil and the arrival of global warming, this is a dangerous fantasy.
