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
Society
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.
Housing & urban design – June 1
Wenchuan as eco-city
Contractors kept busy maintaining abandoned homes
“Sorry, Out of Gas 1973” – Architecture’s response to the energy crisis
Germany looks to boost biking
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’
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?
