Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Ford Is Slashing Production 20% for 4th Quarter /
Wal-Mart Posts First Profit Decline in a Decade /
Australia: Brace yourselves, warns Treasurer /
Meacher: Now America goes cap in hand, as Britain once did /
The eurozone cannot decouple from US recession
You might say that if fossil fuels are a big, thick steak, then renewables like ethanol are an arugula side salad with low-cal dressing. The salad is better for your health and lighter on the land, but it’s not going to fill your belly.
Jeffrey J. Brown on the decline in global oil exports and the future of suburbia
The Tesla would show the world that electric cars were definitely not dead yet. In fact the Tesla might well be the death knell of the combustion engine itself.
CERA’s new report might be reassuring if they did not have a checkered forecasting record, and if its findings were not hedged six ways to Sunday.
A letter from one friend to another
IF WE ARE reaching the Peak Oil phase of the Age of Oil, perhaps it is useful to return to its origins to understand how it all began. What brought mankind to the point where we now find ourselves? It is not overstating the case to say that John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil Co. invented the Age of Oil as we know it.
China’s anti-pollution efforts stink /
Engineered grass found growing in wild /
Scientists add years to ozone recovery
…Let us drop the conceit that these are “problems,” and that they can be “fixed.” Let us instead try an experiment: let us dissociate from human history, and free-associate our way into the next chapter of natural history, which, let us bravely assume, a member of our ecologically challenged species will still be on hand to narrate.
The question for a future with ecological limits becomes: What shall we do with this powerful force of envy which has been awakened across the globe? How will people, both the rich and those aspiring to greater wealth, come to grips with limits which will undermine the consumer society within which that envy flourishes?
Amazon rainforest ‘could become a desert’ /
Forecast puts Earth’s future under a cloud /
US Suffers World’s First Climate Change Exodus /
Global Warming & Global Food Supply
Australia: Heinberg & Holmgren – Peak Oil & Permaculture Tour /
Hopkins: Launching Transition Town Totnes! /
The Priest and the Prophet /
Social revolution that may well save our planet
