My Compact Year
About 5 months into the Compact, I dreamt that I was at Crate & Barrel buying lamps and furnishings I didn’t need. At which point I thought to myself, “Oh no, I’m going to have to confess my purchases to the Compact Group.”
Society
Immanentizing the Eschaton
Absent from most of the discussions of the motives of peak oil “doomers” is the role that old myths in new clothes play in today’s culture. Can we think about the future at all without trying to impose mythology on it?
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 17
‘Ethical pharmaceuticals’ could change world politics?
Unconsumption
What’s the key to bright green cities?
Yes! Building a just, sustainable compassionate world
New quest in British politics: public happiness
Father of energy efficiency to get Fermi Award
Geopolitics – Jan 17
Klare: Emerging energo-fascism (part 2)
Rep Ron Paul: escalation in the Middle East
Iraq cultivating ties with Iran
Oil’s vital new power
Iran and Venezuela plan anti-U.S. fund
Iraq’s billions & the White House connection
Oil, the elites, and the commons
USA lends oil-helping hand to former Soviet republics
Children of Men: everything your denial keeps you from seeing
Commentary on the recent film.
Wealth angst – Jan 16
China: New wealth and its discontents
Advertisers: Your life is totally vile
Affluenza: Earn more, spend more, want more
My cure for affluenza (ecovillage)
The price of bling
Far flung tribes
Partly by accident I have been without a car for well over a year. What ensued was a suburban adventure through the tract housing that I regard as something like reverse exploration, a search for passage from this new and strange place to something older, familiar and more accessible. The development ringing the city suggests clans of a vast tribe. If they had a common name maybe it would be ‘Suburbanites’.
Petrodollars – Jan 12
The petrodollars poser
Petrodollars funding US deficit
Petrodollar power poses a bigger threat than China
Russia opts for some roulette with mighty petrodollar fund
This faith in progress
A religious faith in technological progress is a core obstacle to responding constructively to peak oil. Do we need to reconsider the concept?
Geopolitical – Jan 11
Venezuela to nationalise key industries
Iran leader woos Latin America
Plan for economic strangulation of Iran
Putin stands firm on oil blockade
Transport and cities – Jan 11
Cities most innovative in global warming fight
World at urban crossroads, warns report
Worldwatch’s Sheehan calls for federal action on efficiency and transportation
Worldwatch: our urban future
Peak oil – Jan 11
Headlines, yes we have headlines
Peak Moment Television
U.S. Green Pres. candidate on PO in N. Calif.
Joy ride to global collapse
(reflections on Kunstler)
