Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Lugar: energy more important than Al Qaeda / Chomsky: Why it’s over for America (energy & imperial overstretch) / Africa battles ‘oil curse’ / Greenspan to testify June 7 on oil and the economy / Matthew Modine: Tinseltown’s rainbow warrior / Robert Redford: Kicking the oil habit/ Iran’s territorial disputes with its Caspian sea neighbors
The idea of catabolic collapse is simple enough, and it’s best communicated through a metaphor. Imagine that, instead of the fate of civilizations, we’re discussing home ownership.
Two Studies Link Global Warming to Greater Power of Hurricanes /
The World’s Water Crises /
Canada Pays Environmentally for U.S. Oil Thirst /
Monbiot: The Building Inspectors Who Look the Other Way
A real-world island experiment /
A family of 4 — but no car /
Tending ‘Defiant Gardens’ during wartime /
Big Organic vs. local food /
Biodegradable plastics
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?
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
Rob Hopkins reflects on some books which have helped him recently in the quest to designing community solutions to Peak Oil.
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
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…
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-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
Quest for energy alternatives heats up / Fill ‘er up with corn and politics / Solving our carbon addiction without choking growth
