Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As the world approaches oil depletion, the United States carries an especially heavy burden. We have blundered into a dependency on imported oil that approaches 70 percent of our consumption and can only end in disaster.
The most straightforward way to get your municipality engaged on responding to our energy predicament is a resolution. The resolution calls for peak oil to be considered a serious issue, a city wide assessment funded by the mayor to be undertaken, and the oil depletion protocol to be endorsed.
The next green revolution (bright! green!) / Special NYT section: “The Business of Green” / Biodiversity report released
Bartlett: a prophet without honor in Congress / Rep. Bartlett’s latest talk to Congress / Global oil output to peak in 2010 – Diapason / Saudi Aramco to boost oil reserves by 25% / Kunstler interview / Review of current speculative thinking on collapse
New study points to an inconvenient truth about global warming (disinformation) / Data leaks shake up carbon trade / Why aren’t Americans ‘very worried’ about the climate?
Fortune: How hedge funds, traders, and Big Oil are really driving gas prices / Greece: High time to be weaned off oil /
Indonesia: Government likely to terminate gas exports /
UK: Ex-minister hits out at nuclear
Alcoholics Unanimous Newsletter (biofuels) / Cargill, ADM differ in food-fuel debate / France’s renewed taste for wood heating /
China’s spending on renewable energy ranks world No. 1 / Denmark: Ministers want to export green cures for the energy crunch
Jeff Vail: The Great Game / Klare: Less oil, more wars / Thomas Friedman lays out his “laws of petropolitics” / The deep breath before the plunge
Just as in 1929, we now live in an economy that is living wildly beyond its means, depending on greater and greater fools to keep bidding up governments’, corporations’ and citizens’ paper wealth.
Prophecies of the future made on the basis of conventional wisdom just don’t wear very well. When I was growing up in the suburban America of the 1960s, everyone knew that by 2000 we’d have manned bases on the Moon and a Hilton hotel in orbit.
Yesterday I contrasted the attitudes of people in 1929 with their attitudes today, on the precipice of another Great Depression. I said that I believe racism, religious hatred and the distrust between economic classes was more pronounced and more overt in affluent nations in 1929 than it is today.
A grassroots effort created and refined by informed citizen activists, and not by lobbyists or politicians. It takes an unvarnished and objective look at U.S. energy policy with the single goal of achieving U.S. energy security by 2020 and U.S. energy independence by 2040. (Executive Summary, Version V)
