Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The appalling truth is that none of the major political parties are prepared to propose the systemic changes that are necessary to address impending climate catastrophe. And the media is failing in its vaunted, but illusory, role of holding power to account – even as humanity’s fate lies in the balance
Scientist Sir John Houghton tells Caspar Henderson how he convinced the leaders of 30-40 million evangelical Christians in the US to get serious about climate change.
This week the New Statesman has released a special supplement on energy. More than 20 articles on different aspects of the energy crisis are available free, online.
Computer problems have brought down the Energy Bulletin site for several hours in the last few weeks. Not to worry; we’re working on it.
Fossil fuels, especially oil in the form of gasoline and diesel, are essential to every stage of the nuclear cycle, and CO2 is given off whenever these are used. (Photo essay)
Video of Sustainable Energy Forum /
TOD on PO & Environment Conference (Day 2, Part 1) / Climate change and PO (a tale of two conferences) /
FTW and Alternet cover the Local Solutions conference /
Mauritius: Preparing for the end of the petroleum era /
AP: When are we likely to run out of oil?
BREAKING NEWS: House appropriators OK resolution on need to cap emissions / Putin proposes ruble-denominated oil, gas exchange / Want to change the world? Make gas $10 a gallon. / NYT: The high costs of cheap gas and vice versa / Oklahoma oil output continues to fall
What, too far-fetched? Too implausible? Not at all. Citizens would wail. Commuters would scream and stomp and die. But then we would do what we always do. We would evolve. Adapt.
The city council of Portland, Oregon today passed a resolution to create a task force to investigate the implications of peak oil. The official attention came in response to activism by Portland Peak Oil, a local grassroots group.
Those who write about the future from the perspective of peak oil fall along a spectrum ranging from life-as-we-know-it with hydrogen cars to most-have-died-off from oil wars, famine, and disease with the remainder living in scattered tribes on subsistence agriculture.
Peak oil resolution goes to Portland city council /
PO and the Environment conference report #3 /
Michael Klare on PO and national security (video) / Australian TV: Oil supplies set to decline / Peak oil at Linky Dinky / Plan B From Outer Space (links)
It is very important to reduce our dependence on energy, and that part is the part that involves the entire redesign of communities in terms of where we work, in terms of communal relationships, in terms of what we eat, how we grow it, how we eat it and so on.
