Solutions & sustainability – Jun 1
A real-world island experiment /
A family of 4 — but no car /
Tending ‘Defiant Gardens’ during wartime /
Big Organic vs. local food /
Biodegradable plastics
Peak Oil – Jun 1
Cleaner energy key to future, cheap fuel a thing of the past /
Be Prepared: Perpetual cheap fossil fuel a dangerous myth /
Venezuela’s oil model: Is production rising or falling?
Other Energy – June 1
Silicon supply could limit solar energy boom /
The nuclear wisdom of young Blair /
China bets big on coal-to-oil projects /
Oil shortages hit Iraq with onset of summer heat
Post-Petroleum Woman
We’ve often heard that Peak Oil will mean the end of the three-thousand mile Caesar salad, but what about the end of the three-thousand mile tampon? In this essay, Carolyn Baker turns her considerable analytical skills to what Peak Oil will mean for women—its spiritual, psychological, and practical ramifications, and offers a few suggestions regarding women’s preparations concerns.
The economics of oofle dust
Counting up the true cost of uranium enrichment.
Australia: Low oil warning: planning starts now
Regardless of when you think global oil production will peak, planning for a low oil future starts now, writes Elliot Fishman.
12 Suggestions of Insightful Reading for Designers of Energy Descent Pathways…
Rob Hopkins reflects on some books which have helped him recently in the quest to designing community solutions to Peak Oil.
Solutions & sustainability – May 31
Post Carbon Relocalization Network Meeting (great list of projects) /
Brian Goodwin on redesigning universities and the monetary system for Peak Oil /
Norway: Wood-to-Diesel Project /
Urban Wind Farms – coming to a town near you /
AfterCulture – future anthropology
Peak oil – May 31
David Holmgren on permaculture and oil peak / Julian Darley at the NYC conference / ISN Security Watch: The end of the ‘age of oil’ / PO will not help us in the climate change fight / Peak oil is ‘an opportunity’ / News from here, there…
Environment – May 31
Poison ivy getting meaner (with global warming) / Canada agrees to next step in Kyoto / USA Today series on global warming / The Greener Guys (U.S. business & global warming) / You control climate change – or do you? / Ecological handprints: population and the limits of possibility
Energy use – May 31
Energy-hungry nations also most wasteful / Forget gas; we meed a plan to keep passenger trains rolling / Railroading Amtrak / Car culture in BC: Our toxic love affair /
High-rise residents big energy guzzlers / Computer server efficiency hot topic
Other energy – May 31
Quest for energy alternatives heats up / Fill ‘er up with corn and politics / Solving our carbon addiction without choking growth
