Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
More than 6 million PCs will be left on over Christmas, consuming nearly 40 million kilowatt hours of electricity. Many of our beloved technological toys are remarkably inefficient and use more electricity than they really need to.
Language as a tool for culture change in agriculture
Flannery: Make the polluter pay
10 days without fossil fuels
Can Weird Al Yankovic save the world?
The end of Dollar supremacy
Lester Brown: Why China is rising and the U.S. is declining
Venezuela, oil producers buy Euro as Dollar, oil fall
Dollar dropped in Iran asset move
Chief banker says Iran to use all currencies in int’l exchanges
WSJ: Dollars, debt and the trade gap
Debut of the ‘Amero’?
100 serious household preparation tips for coming energy scarcity.
Flying blind to the brink of extinction
The impending mass extinction & how to stop it
Complex marine systems evolved after mass extinction of earth species
Evangelicals on extinction
Nine billion or bust!
Population: Apocalypse now
China’s water shortage a population problem
What legal obstacles might prevent us from pursuing personal powerdown strategies and how might we change them?
In an annual message for peace, Pope Benedict XVI strongly emphasized a theme rarely taken up in his nearly two years as pope: what he called the “ecology of peace,” the idea that protecting the environment and finding alternative energy sources could reduce conflict.
In praise of sweet darkness
Composting toilets offer solution to water, sanitation problems
How to give up cycling
Self acknowledged "doomer" author writes, "despite all the fun you have trying to plumb our doomer souls, a more important discussion is why we prepare for a crash, not why we believe in one."
The peak oil movement lacks enough connectors and salespeople. Many of those concerned about peak oil come from technical backgrounds: physics, geology, engineering and computer science. In other words, the peak oil movement has an embarrassment of mavens. This is a great plus, but not enough.
Further explorations in the post-peak scenario presented last week in “Solstice 2100,” the second of three snapshots of life in deindustrial America.
“My 12 step programme for reducing my oil dependency. In order to make my life less reliant on the unreliable, I pledge to myself to strive towards the following 12 goals over the next 6 months…”
