Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Video of Sustainable Energy Forum /
TOD on PO & Environment Conference (Day 2, Part 1) / Climate change and PO (a tale of two conferences) /
FTW and Alternet cover the Local Solutions conference /
Mauritius: Preparing for the end of the petroleum era /
AP: When are we likely to run out of oil?
BREAKING NEWS: House appropriators OK resolution on need to cap emissions / Putin proposes ruble-denominated oil, gas exchange / Want to change the world? Make gas $10 a gallon. / NYT: The high costs of cheap gas and vice versa / Oklahoma oil output continues to fall
What, too far-fetched? Too implausible? Not at all. Citizens would wail. Commuters would scream and stomp and die. But then we would do what we always do. We would evolve. Adapt.
The city council of Portland, Oregon today passed a resolution to create a task force to investigate the implications of peak oil. The official attention came in response to activism by Portland Peak Oil, a local grassroots group.
Those who write about the future from the perspective of peak oil fall along a spectrum ranging from life-as-we-know-it with hydrogen cars to most-have-died-off from oil wars, famine, and disease with the remainder living in scattered tribes on subsistence agriculture.
Jeff Vail: valuing elegance /
Resurgence issue on sustainability /
CSIRO sustainability newsletter #58 /
Fossil-free landscaping / Cassandra without portfolio: Maine’s Edward Myers
Cuba plans offshore wells banned in U.S. waters / Bush on Arab oil and the gas tax / Stagflation? / The ‘Exxon of Corn’ taps an oil exec as CEO
James Hansen: Can we still avoid climate change? / Nobel Prize winner on global warming / Grist interviews accidental movie star Al Gore
Peak oil resolution goes to Portland city council /
PO and the Environment conference report #3 /
Michael Klare on PO and national security (video) / Australian TV: Oil supplies set to decline / Peak oil at Linky Dinky / Plan B From Outer Space (links)
It is very important to reduce our dependence on energy, and that part is the part that involves the entire redesign of communities in terms of where we work, in terms of communal relationships, in terms of what we eat, how we grow it, how we eat it and so on.
Beyond Peak wanted to see if there was anybody who was optimistic about Peak Oil, since most projected scenarios predict (quite reasonably) doom and gloom. Well, some people are optimistic, and can actually present step-by-step reasons for that optimism.
Fritjof Capra is one of the foremost green thinkers, especially in the field of ecology and systems thinking. He speaks with Rob Hopkins about relocalisation, community building, globalisation and technological solutions.
