Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Neither the mega-cities nor the survivalist’s bunker will be viable in a post-oil future. The places with the best chance of surviving an oil peak will be cities of less than a million people, ranging down to well-placed smaller cities and towns.
How do we create a worthwhile future without a way of visioning it? Rob Hopkins compares environmental disaster movies to some permaculture teaching techniques, and suggests we may need a new superhero to lead us into a post-oil-peak world.
Lord Browne speaks, Beyond Petroleum? /
Alberta oil sands growing source of pollution: report / Our greed for energy will be our downfall / India joins nuclear fusion club / Poison + Water = Hydrogen
Iran prepares to sell oil in euros / Energy costs hit US manufacturers / How oil conservation hurts governments / In today’s India, status comes with four wheels / Bicycle boom pushes Zimbabwe inflation / China refuses to cut energy use / Right wingers going for the green / With oil prices off their peak, are supplies assured?
Kill all screensavers / Sustainable grass farming in Virginia /
Grist tips for greening conferences and events
“We can’t keep going the way we’ve been going,” said Congressman Mike Thompson. “That’s a no brainer.” Speaking during Mondays meeting with local officials and members of the Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL) group, Thompson was referring to an economy based on insatiable consumption of fossil fuels.
Investing: another peek at peak oil / Washington stirs / Aleklett in NZ / Peak Oil Is Happening Now / Syriana and Iraq
How Europe is choking itself – and the world
Revealed: environmental cost of continent’s consumption
Global warming scuppers Blair’s nuclear power plans / Oil Shale Technology – Old & New / Saudi’s plan refineries in South Korea and Philippines / Kentucky faces big backlog of abandoned oil, gas wells / Calpine runs out of gas
Hybrid tractor prototype / LNG powered mine trucks / China May Drill Philippine Oil That Shell, Chevron Rejected / UK Gas supply / LA suburbs sprout oil derricks as city taps into slimy past
Antiglobalista’s rebut CEO’s / US Fertilizer prices sky high / India’s Oil Minister concerned over output / Fears of Energy Price Increase Delay 9-State Pollution Pact / Bartlett grounds BP booster / Too valuable to burn
The Senate today approved an Australian Greens’ proposal for an inquiry into the future of Australia’s oil supply.
