Car culture on the decline – June 1
Driving’s dim future (funny/sad)
The era of fast cars is over
Gridlock led 27 pct of drivers to abandon trips
Overcoming car culture like ‘waiting for Godot’
Society
Deep thought – June 1
Less is more: decreasing the number of scientific conferences to promote economic degrowth
Visual images of consumerism statistics
John Papworth on Transition Towns
Do schools kill creativity?
EB slow for a week
Posting will be light during the next week. EB will be back at full force June 7.
UPDATE (June 2) Sorry for the outages. The tech staff says it’s due to lots of people trying to access Energy Bulletin at once.
Transport – May 30
British Airways to increase fuel surcharges
Goodbye cheap flights, welcome back real travel
Plug-in hybrids power the grid
How Toyota plans to survive $4 (make that $5) gas
Deep thought – May 29
Alex Steffen: The real green heretics
Stratfor: Geopolitics of $130 oil
The final act of the Age of Oil has begun
The Carbon Age: the history of carbon
Adopting the stance of Pooh
“Things” are certainly unfolding quickly now — the mainstream is filled with energy news, rising costs of food, job losses. Some of us are moving beyond the “peak oil education” stage to “hey, there are some things we can do!” moments with the newly awakened. It’s a critical time to be awake, active, and available. This is what we anticipated, and is what we’ve been preparing for.
So why doesn’t it feel good?
Tilting at windmills and energy literacy
We are now being bombarded with ludicrous suggestions about how to get out of a crisis brought about by a gradual peak & decline of world oil production, a trend which has been evident for three long years now.
Why decline matters
If the end of industrial society proves to be a slow decline rather than a sudden catastrophe, we stand to lose more of today’s cultural heritage and knowledge base, not less. What can be done in the face of so challenging a future?
Housing & urban design – May 26
McMansions no more
Ceilings come down to earth
Barcelona as sustainable city model
Transport – May 26
Fuel suppliers demand airlines pay cash in advance
Houston has lift-off as oil price rises (airline worries)
End of the road for British motorists
Railroads 4 times more fuel efficient than trucks
North America’s Amish community: least likely to be devastated by collapse
This past week I had the opportunity to spend a day with Amish relatives. This visit was colored by my acute awareness of civilization’s collapse and the ramifications of that reality for most of us.
Deep thought – May 25
Cars are driving us nuts (interview with traffic scientist Hermann Knoflacher)
Jan Lundberg: Fix the cities? Maybe not
