Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
Novelist and screenwriter Michael Ventura envisions how we will live after peak oil in a series of columns that appeared in the Austin Chronicle.
The world has passed “peak fish” and fishermen’s nets will be hauling in ever diminishing loads unless there’s political action to stem the global tide of over fishing, says a fisheries expert based at the University of British Columbia.
If you are willing to live as an Unplugger does, your cost to buy out is only around three months of wages for a factory worker, the price of a used car. You never need to “work” again, although there are plenty of life support activities to keep you busy, and a lot of basic research and science to do. Unplugging is not an off-the-shelf solution, it’s a research career!
A hundred years ago it was called “dollar diplomacy.” After World War II, and especially after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, that policy evolved into “dollar hegemony.” But after all these many years of great success, our dollar dominance is coming to an end.
What are ‘peakniks’ supposed to do once everyone cops on as to the reality of peak oil? Rob Hopkins argues that getting people aware about peak oil is not an ends in itself.
Inverview with Syriana screenwriter Stephen Gaghan /
Cantarell – an omen? /
The Iran crisis & global peak oil, part 2 /
Satisfying China’s demand for energy /
Do high prices mean we’re running out of natural gas?
A comprehensive analysis of the likely nature of US or Israeli military action that would be intended to disable Iran’s nuclear capabilities. It outlines both the immediate consequences in terms of loss of human life, facilities and infrastructure, and also the likely Iranian responses, which would be extensive.
