Peak oil – Mar 23
Peak oil theory: Shell’s Hofmeister vs Simmons
The Oil Drum turns three
No oil? Cities in ruins? Welcome to Kunstler’s `World’
Act: Inspiration
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 21
Shut that door! (UK shops waste energy)
Community Solution’s Agraria
New green website in UK
Deep thought – Mar 21
Study: it’s better to give than receive
What we can expect as nature changes
The United States of too much information (thinking about risk)
Housing & urban design – Mar 13
The next slum and the new green city
California needs more urban density
Cities on the edge of chaos
SUVs without wheels
Review: Kunstler’s World Made by Hand
James Kunstler’s vision of life post-peak gives even the most thoughtful doomers new things to think about and new ways to think about them.
Deep thought – Mar 11
How The Limits to Growth was demonized
Alex Steffen: Zero, now
Jeff Vail: Rhizome at the community level
Bouncing in the wool sack
The wise men of agribusiness did not predict that pasture farming— raising animals on pasture with little or no grain, would become the trend that it is today. Pasture farming more than anything else allows for a return of small scale agriculture because it is a low-cost way to get started in farming.
A work of imagination
Our futures, personal and collective, depend as much on our imagination as the brute facts. If there is one thing that imagination makes possible, it is to believe that we are not necessarily limited by our past.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 8
Review: The Transition Handbook
Implementing rhizome at the personal level
Sustainable Settings in Colorado leaves for greener pastures
Interfaith forum on environment in N Carolina
Mining exec an activist himself
Transport & urban design – Mar 8
EcoDensity’s unofficial champion
UK cyclists face a rough ride
Relative comfort – living as an extended family
‘Big shift’ to rail urged for UK
Weird unofficial Toyota ads
Post carbon living: beyond technofix
There is an overwhelming need for non-technological responses to our global environmental crisis.
Review: World Made by Hand by James Kunstler
The novel presents a fictional world that is at once idyllic and post-apocalyptic, reassuring and frightening.
