Water – Nov 21
Big growth, big fight over water in Washington
City to dredge Atlanta’s Lake Lanier – needs water
Society
Our cities, our future – Nov 21
Kunstler: Formerly normal
Walking towns: universities, military bases & pre-auto
European-style bike-sharing programs head to US
Middle class angst: the politics of lemmings
Taking a break
Energy Bulletin will be taking a Thanksgiving break.
Postings are expected to be sparse until Sunday November 25.
Two can live as cheaply – Nov 21
Can shrunken families be reflated?
Sharon Astyk: Getting more butts in your house
Are we green yet?
Couldn’t this Green culture that we are nurturing here in the San Francisco Bay Area become part of our cultural pride and identity, that we then spread to the entire state of California? … Perhaps the Chronicle was not far off in using the headline “heartbreaking” about the Bay oil spill. As one activist pointed out, “It is in the breaking of the heart that we truly discover what it is we feel compelled to do.”
Population – Nov 18
The world’s unsustainable population
Three’s a crowd
U.S. economy — recession, depression, or collapse
The strategy that I have been pursuing to deal with the multiple threats to the Earth is to embed myself within certain institutions, especially schools and churches.
The familiarity of an idea
Cloth toilet paper and peak oil… There are some ideas you run into once and immediately say “Why didn’t I think of that” and implement it in your own life, but there are many other things where the first time you confront an idea, you can’t do much more than file it away as a weird factoid. Without context and familiarity, it is just too hard and too strange.
Fascism, feudalism, and the future
A number of writers on peak oil now insist that the American political class intends to impose a “feudal-fascist” regime on the world. A look behind this rhetoric exposes some uncomfortable issues in the contemporary peak oil movement.
Economic and planetary collapse: Is it a therapeutic issue?
If we call those pessimistic about the future “Doomers,” what do we call those who are blindly and enthusiastically optimistic? We might call such optimism a “Panglossian Disorder” and the Peak Shrink suggest that it is a tough, culturally ubiquitous disorder to treat.
Come gather round cities – Nov 14
UK’s towns on ‘the road to enlightenment’
Chicago takes a shine to Portland
Wales: How green is my valley?
Post-carbon cities and the future of growth
Geopolitics – Nov 13
High oil prices push giant shifts in wealth, power
Indian ties with Russia to reach ‘great heights’: PM
Rebuttal to NY Times Venezuela article
The means don’t justify the end over oil
Venezuela proposes OPEC change oil pricing method
