Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The generation of activists who fought for civil rights, against an unpopular war, and started the environmental movement is poised for one last hurrah, one more attempt to cure the ills of American society. They’re older now, and perhaps a little wiser. They’re settled into their communities, some of them already retired. And they’re scared as hell about the lives facing their children and grandchildren once the oil runs out.
Everything will relocalize as our easy-motoring way of life persistently constricts after Peak Oil, including how we do church. What will the Post-Carbon Church look like?
Collapsing public health forms one of the least recognized and most worrisome dimensions of the peak oil predicament. In a world without cheap abundant oil, the return of infectious diseases as a major factor in everyday life will be almost impossible to prevent.
Richard Heinberg reflects on humanity’s aesthetic past, present, and post-peak future.
The city council of Oakland, California yesterday unanimously passed legislation, inspired by Sweden, making Oakland the first city in the U.S. to aim for oil independence by 2020.
Columbia, transportation and the politics of happiness
Bus rapid transit (BRT)
The O-Bahn busway
Americans commute earlier and longer
Curb cheap flights, urge climate researchers
For the super-rich, it’s time to upgrade the old jumbo jet
Sending ailing workers to India for cheaper medical care
The Inuit and the cure for affluence
Albert Bartlett and the 300 million
The next 100 million and the face of America
An elephant crackup?
For 40 years, Community Solution has been advocating a return from big cities and sprawling suburbs to small, rural communities. In the last three years, the group has focused on how peak oil is going to force America to decentralize whether we like it or not.
Fundamentalist Christians are mounting an effort to end the use of all contraceptives while ecologists warn that we are headed for disaster as Earth’s life support systems crack under the weight of our numbers.
Dr Paul Roth explores some of the general principles that might combine to form a sustainable and ethical health care system.
The day that we begin living beyond our ecological means is creeping ever earlier in the year as human consumption grows.
