Dysfunction – Jan 25
Technological revolution is 100 years dead
Infected by affluenza (and mental illness)
Wealth top priority for today’s youth
Saving the planet: empty gestures
Society
Revolution arising from the Earth, Part I
As the industrial system spins toward exhaustion, seeds of change are sprouting at the base.
Revolution arising from the Earth, Part II: The Earth speaks
Ecovillages and the new aborigines
Key questions on energy options (and thoughts on the SOTU)
A question was recently posed here: “What is the most important question concerning ethanol production?” That got me to thinking about important questions regarding not only ethanol, but all of our energy sources.
Environment – Jan 23
World is running out of water: UN adviser
Iowa water and ethanol
New book: Challenging the Chip
Dead birds rain on towns half a world apart
Tuna stocks close to exhaustion: WWF
Energy concepts – Jan 23
Why Moore’s Law doesn’t hold for energy
Godesky:
Power & energy
Ten fundamental principles of net energy
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 23
Astyk: Living off the waste of industrial society
Hopkins: Honour the elders
Orlov: The despotism of the image
The straight line is the road to hell
Programs let homes produce green power
Mud Pies and Dunce Caps: Part 2 – Education
What is the value of our current education system in preparing our children for a future that will be dominated by the impact of peak-oil, global warming and climate change, and other global disasters on the near-term horizon?
Mud Pies and Dunce Caps: Part 1 – Health
We are experiencing an epidemic rise in childhood diseases. What are the implications for their survival as we slide past peak oil and go into permanent energy decline?
Retrofitting For Passive Solar
Elegant solutions to fossil fuel free home heating.
Ending industrialism
We will have to be much more imaginative as a people if we are to take meaningful action to deal with global warming. It is a simple truth that economic activity that transforms the Earth into consumer products is the main problem.
The ethical challenges of healthcare and peak oil
It is particularly likely that ethical dilemmas will arise during the redesign of the healthcare system as a response to peak oil. This is because there will be a conflict between what is best for society as a whole, versus what is best for the individual.
