Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Bike boulevards: Portland cyclists have streets to call their own / Why Scots are getting on their bikes / Are our cities making us fat? / Minister: China must back-pedal on anti-bike policy / Bicycle round-up / Riding a bicycle can save the world /
Transport experts have seen the future, and it’s got pedals
Thanks for your patience through recent technical problems. Due to the largesse of the Post Carbon Institute we’re now hosted on a flash new server, and teething problems aside, we hope the outages are behind us. Thanks PCI!
Implications of peak-oil theory for the Middle East / Is peak oil pure fiction?
/ Interview with Ran Prieur / Kossack: my peak oil op-ed / Has oil peaked? Not yet /
New edition of ‘The Oil Age’ poster
Russian Trading System launches ruble-contracts in oil, oil products and gold /
Russia fixes $65.2 price for first rubles oil deal /
Russia Shifts Part of Its Forex Reserves from Dollars to Euros
An Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) is a local plan for dealing with Peak Oil. It goes well beyond issues of energy supply, to look at across-the-board creative adaptations in the realms of health, education, economy and much more. An EDAP is a way to think ahead, to plan in an integrated, multidisciplinary way, to provide direction to local government, decision makers, groups and individuals with an interest in making the place they live into a vibrant and viable community in a post-carbon era.
An EDAP is a way to think ahead, to plan in an integrated, multidisciplinary way, to provide direction to local government, decision makers, groups and individuals with an interest in making the place they live into a vibrant and viable community in a post-carbon era.
Dr. Sustainability /
Steve Case Leads the Charge to Popularize Alternative (Green) Products /
The People of the New Society /
Learning to Localize /
Revolution! Britain embraces the bicycle /
Woodworking in Amish country
As the world oil situation is rather quiet at the minute, it’s a good time for a review.
Differences are important. We ignore dealing with gender and cultural issues at the risk of excluding diverse voices. Instead, we should welcome and seek to enhance their power, thus strengthening Peak Oil work.
Gas fuels new cold war in the Arctic /
Iran threatens oil shipments if attacked by US /
USA out-flanked in Eurasia Energy Politics? /
Iran lawmaker urges re-examining OPEC membership /
Japan: Pouring oil on troubled waters /
Japan Curbs Oil Imports From Iran on Concern Over Disruptions /
Plenty of Oil, but Few Refineries for Iran
One day soon, America will wake up from its infotainment-fueled sleepwalk and start desperately looking for answers to the predicament it finds itself in. A lot of that will revolve around the basic question of where we live, and how things in it are arranged. When that wake-up occurs, the New Urbanists will be ready, reliable, confident, and congenial as always — something like our country used to be.
EU energy strategy focuses on Russia, China /
The Great Game in Somalia /
American Theocracy /
Nigeria’s oil delta faces escalation of violence /
The Resource Curse: The Pumping and Plundering of West African Oil (audio)
