Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
What is the nature of the connection between an ill-planned war in Iraq; the steadily increasing pressure on dissent in the United States; the ongoing estrangement between the United States and its traditional allies; the increasing strains with the country’s Canadian neighbor; and the forbearance shown to China as opposed to the increasing distrust of Russia?
The controversy over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a side issue. The problem we need to face is the impending world oil shortage. (NY Times Op-Ed!)
Can you really generate all your own energy for the home? Of course, say a couple who built an eco house to prove it. Dominic Murphy hears their recipe for bringing power to the people.
Subir Raha, the government-appointed head of India’s biggest oil company, said the U.S. would be “stupid” to attack Iran and risk imposing record oil prices on the global economy.
The circumstances of the Long Emergency will require us to downscale and re-scale virtually everything we do and how we do it, from the kind of communities we physically inhabit to the way we grow our food to the way we work and trade the products of our work.
The International Energy Agency is to propose drastic cutbacks in car use to halt continuing oil-supply problems. Those cutbacks include anything from car-pooling to outright police-enforced driving bans for citizens.
The quest for a sustainable, ecologically sensible society in the Pacific Northwest. (Special edition, with several articles, including a long interview with Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia.)
In the bad old days of an oil embargo and gasoline lines, Americans at least got billions of petrodollars back from the oil-rich Middle East.
That money got recycled into the United States, mostly in safe bank deposits. The banks then invested it at great risk in Latin America and elsewhere.
So this time as gasoline prices soar again…some Americans may be expecting another influx of Mideast cash. They shouldn’t. The petrodollar is losing its international clout.
Might we really need nuclear power? Hannah Bullock cuts through seven layers of loose thinking in search of a firm conclusion.
Reactors in many UK nuclear power stations are in danger of developing cracks in their graphite cores. This could force some plants to close down earlier than expected, dealing a blow to the idea that nuclear power can become a “green” option in the fight against global warming.
Links to background report and presentations from March 7 & 8 IEA workshop on oil demand management, in case of ‘supply interruption’. Note title of 1st session: ‘Saving Oil in a Hurry: Rapid measures for demand restraint’.
When it comes to dealing with the many energy-related crises we’re facing, can the Bushies really go on pretending that their policies are any more forward-looking than a rerun of That ’70s Show
