Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
McDonald’s got me to college. I don’t just mean that I saved money by consuming tons of their cheap hamburgers and fries and gallons of milkshakes, which I did. I also worked there for three years, beginning at about $1 an hour.
ODAC newsletter now online / Kunstler: Summer fun / Energy futures (promised solutions too slow) / Oil & Gas Journal uses Hubbert Linearization to estimate peak production
Planner Richard Gilbert’s vision for Hamilton, Ontario. Part one looks at the implications of peak oil and peak natural gas for Hamilton’s growth strategy. Part two discusses transportation, goods movement, and building energy use in more detail, focusing on Hamilton’s opportunities in energy production and conservation.
It is precisely because the climate crisis is so profound that we need to encourage the American debate on the subject to move on, finally and for good, and start to focusing on how to build a bright green future as quickly as possible…
Over the last few months, we here at Worldchanging and our allies at related sites across the blogosphere have seen a noticable uptick in comments and trackbacks from climate denialists.
Coverage and commentary from a long-time activist on the two Peak Oil conferences earlier in May in Washington D.C.
While misleading articles about oil and energy are so numerous in the media these days that responding to them all would be an impossible task, it is occasionally worthwhile to critique a typical specimen so as to remain in practice.
Is it OK to fly? / Turned off by global warming (we need imagination & daring) / China faces rising temperatures, shrinking crops / Upcoming BBC series on climate change features David Attenborough / Canada moves closer to anti-Kyoto group
Hamilton, Ontario: the electric city (local planning for peak oil) / Colin Campbell’s latest /
King Coal again raises his sooty scepter /
Peak oil taxonomy: the doombat
The world should get ready for a NATO-style oil alliance / Rising price of growing oil alternatives raises demand for oil / Bigger houses, longer commutes / Grass could be future energy source (elephant grass)
PO makes it into the LA Times (Kunstler interview) / New Blog at “From The Wilderness” / Global oil production: Has it peaked? (quotes CEI!) / What You Need to Know about Peak Oil (good primer)
Nuclear backers’ energy surges / US, Canada to take 50% of world LNG supply by 2015 / India to produce $2,400 car / US shoppers ‘cut back for fuel’ / Oil at $100? It’s no longer a pipe dream
Venezuela moves to nationalize its oil industry /
Russia’s energy sector hides weaknesses behind powerful facade / Middle America: welcome to the centre of the USA / Norway: the oil country that’s got it all – but is still saving for tomorrow
