Transport – June 18
Cardboard bike unveiled
Air Canada cutting 2,000 jobs, trimming capacity
Cargo ships told to go green by slowing down
The future of air travel
Gaza ‘genius’ helps besieged city
Society
Geopolitics – June 18
AFRI (OIL) COM
Iran’s Ahmadinejad says oil price artificial
Brzezinski: Russia after BTC pipeline
Challenging the militarization of US energy policy
The politics of global food and energy crisis
Are they really oil wars?
Media – June 17
Izzy Stone, Patron Saint of Bloggers
The Ups and Downs of Giving a Peak Oil Presentation
Broadcast Legend Bill Moyers on Media Reform
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
The Associated Press, Bloggers, Boycotts, and Copyright Issues
Blogger arrests hit record high
Transport – June 16
Bill McKibben: Free public transit for all
When is a bike not a bike? When it’s electric
The threat to the car
Community – June 16
Sandpoint becomes 2nd Transition Town in U.S.
Portland: Step program for gasoholics (Peak Oil taskforce no longer’apocalyptic’)
To hell with debate, what can the simple folk do?
38 pounds lighter, all from recycling
Community Guide to Environmental Health: comprehensive book, downloadable from Hesperian
Getting the word out – June 6
Peak Oil 101: Why isn’t this class available yet in my college?
Interview with Raise The Hammer editor
Energy Policy TV
Transport – June 6
Could Zeppelin’s airships soon be gracing our skies again?
Summer airfares double, triple, quadruple
Scooters grow in popularity
Transportation system dissolved in Amish country
Twilight of the cars – June 5
Short Attention Span Theater: a history of gas consumption in America
Pickup truck, SUV sales run out of gas
End of the road for Hummer after sales dive
Big vehicles stagger under the weight of $4 gas
EU plans clampdown on car ads
With less in tank, more get stranded
Dallas-area motorists running out of gas
“Green” auto insurance
Religion and the survival of culture
In the past, religious movements have often played a central role in transmitting the heritage of a dying civilization to its successors. With the onset of decline into a deindustrial dark age arguably beginning around us, what are the prospects that this pattern might repeat?
Crisis & collapse – June 3
Gail Tverberg reviews Orlov’s Reinventing Collapse
Futurist Jeremy Rifkin’s bleak view of the future
8 things we are running out of and why
Carolyn Baker: Location, location, re-location
Housing & urban design – June 3
Yuba homebuyers face mounting commuting costs – suburban equivalents of ghost towns?
Second Great Depression in Detroit – time for a revival? (houses for $5000)
Rural Canada:
Guzzling up their way of life
Peak oil parenting … back to the future style.
As fuel becomes precipitously expensive, two car families are likely to become one car families. Most people would probably consider this a bad thing but let’s for a moment look at how it might change our lives for the better.
