Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The average American consumes six times the energy of the average person in the rest of the world. Yet we don’t seem to realize the cost of our massive energy consumption on the poorer people of the world, on our own health, and the health of the environment. Although interest in Peak Oil is growing, most do not yet fully understand that this means the “American Way of Life” will be over within a few decades.
US$: Forget Iran, the problem’s at home /
Kuwaiti oil plan stirs nationalist fervor /
In Venezuela, oil sows emancipation /
China ‘ready’ for energy co-operation with US
A new Peak Oil workshop initiative recently started in Melbourne, Australia. Early signs indicate it has broader relevance and excellent potential for effective communication, project initiation and community building.
Chomsky: Latin America and Asia are at last breaking free of Washington’s grip /
Kevin Phillips’ new book on the influence of radical religion, oil, and borrowed money on the US /
A Glimpse of our geopolitical future — The East and South China Seas /
US postwar Iraq strategy a mess, Blair was told /
Both Reds and Blues go green on energy
How humans are able to adjust the setup of the suburbs to meet their basic needs in times of trouble will fall to those in need. Necessity is the mother of invention, or reinvention as it were.
“Living on the edge”, the balcony garden designers guild /
Landscape architects and global warming /
Getting cars out of the city center /
More news outlets, fewer stories (blogs an answer?) /
Why isn’t there more new urbanism?
A number of writings have recently appeared with the thesis that the announced plans of the Iranian government to institute a Tehran oil bourse, perhaps as early as this month, is the real hidden reason behind the evident march to war on Iran by the Anglo-American powers. F. William Engdahl differs.
Continuity of family for sustainable culture /
Green technology to make sewage a less dirty word /
Efforts in Japanese society and business to slow down /
Web site builds powerful storehouse of research /
Bio-diesel an alternative way of life in Berkeley
What I learned from the way my client talked about shopping was that in order to continue to be invited to this party of American abundance, one had to buy things continually. …What my client needed was an invitation to a new kind of party. A party where frugality and make-do creativity was the currency of the realm.
Japan: The slow life – Tune in, drop out, grow rice /
18 months in a retro-Amish-Mennonite community (Eric Brende interview) /
Oops, we helped ruin the planet:
Guide owners join to discourage ‘casual flying’ /
All the organic broccoli in the world won’t be enough to save the planet /
I’m lovin’ it: Falling sales force closure of 25 UK McDonald’s branches
Immediate action required to save model for post-peak sustainability in cities. “The relevant question is not whether this urban farm should be preserved… The question is, rather, how can we best help multiply urban farms like this one throughout Los Angeles and cities of the Americas and the world.”
It’s been more than a year since the Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL) group began a major push in the direction of meeting local needs with local resources in a post-oil future.
