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Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
We are currently in a deep and horrible disaster, being visited on the world’s poorest and the tentacles are gradually crawling up the anchor to take down the rest of the ship. But I also think that there is a good deal of reason for hope – we have vast capacities, vast resources and vast imagination.
As the energy crisis explodes on the rest of us, I’d like to advocate for mercy for those who don’t yet fully understand. … sympathy and kindness are not small things to be rationed out by droppers, only to those perfectly deserving – they should be ladled out and poured from buckets and flow out of us like rivers. Any scarcity of kindness is artificial – and far too many things are growing scarce for us to have artificial shortages of generosity.
As we get closer to the peak in global oil production, we are likely to see greater pressures particularly on poorer communities but constantly moving up the income scale. The intensifying pressures are likely to open new fault lines in our society
Most contemporary debate on such environmental issues as global warming assumes that nature is fragile and modern industrial civilization is not. Are we missing the elephant — or, rather, the grizzly bear — in our unexpectedly delicate living room?
The Autobahn’s future and one-liter class racing
Summer is here, leave your car at home (discovering bicycling)
Garrison Keillor: Eulogy for the Winnebago
If you aren’t feeling some degree of apprehension right now, you aren’t reading the news. Here are some of my thoughts for turning that emotional energy into constructive action. (Author is a clinical psychologist.)
Who will be the leaders who will carry us kicking and screaming towards the sustainable way of life that we should have been leading all along?
Daniel Lerch: PO challenges for local governments
How NYC’s congestion pricing plan crashed
Speech by Philadelphia Mayor Nutter inspires city planners
Kunstler on NPR
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Jeddah
– Nigeria
– The Offshore Drilling Panacea
– China Raises Prices
– Energy Briefs
Michael Klare interview
BP’s Russian lament
How Iran would retaliate if it comes to war
Bomb Iran? What’s to stop us?
Iran: Stop nukes by bombing oil wells, neocons suggest
Gas prices latest worry for L.A. real estate market
Sydney homes stuck on road to nowhere
The cost of free parking
The nexus of peak oil, climate change and infrastructure
Kunstler: Pavement
For mass transit, mass investment
In the future we will live in gas stations
Real-estate projects boom near light rail
$4 gallon of gas will change U.S. way of life
