Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Australia: States begin setting own greenhouse targets / King County (Washington) to join carbon credit exchange / Australian policy on climate change is mostly hot air / We’re all heading for the fiery furnace if we go on taking these cheap flights
How U.S. homes are hurt by rising energy prices / Price appreciation at a 10-year low as existing-home sales soften / The housing & transportation affordability index (they are related!) / Earth homes make for affordable housing
‘Slow motion’ oil shock / Soaring bills ‘pushing millions into fuel poverty’ in UK / Is there an oil ‘bubble’? / Russia’s Yukos oil company declared insolvent / Poor countries bear up under oil price strain – IMF
As evidence accumulates foretelling the imminent shock of “petrocollapse,” one central concern of communities – including organized neighborhoods and small towns – should be the safety and continuity of their food supply.
The best students of peak oil currently put the peak somewhere between last December and 1,500 days hence. Moreover, Hezbollah vs. Israel has an excellent potential to spin out of control resulting at best in a significant reduction in Middle East oil exports.
“Dr Bakhtiari dishes it out to the Australian senators in fine style,” writes contributer CS.
In May 2006, Portland City Council created a Peak Oil Task Force to develop recommendations on appropriate responses to uncertainties in the supply and affordability of oil. City staff developed this 94-page set of background materials intended to provide an overview of the peak oil issue.
People routinely insure themselves against the unlikely, but most have given neither thought nor preparation to the biggest problem facing most of the world: famine.
Eco-party celebrates art of simple living /
The Un-Coal /
Go green, Miliband tells UK supermarket bosses /
Green Wonders of the World (building) /
Is buying local always best? /
Principled eaters gather at grill
An Op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal a month ago claimed that a published study affirming the existence of a scientific consensus on the reality of global warming had been refuted. This charge was repeated again last week, in a hearing of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. I am the author of that study, which appeared two years ago in the journal Science, and I’m here to tell you that the consensus stands.
NZ: Overlander rail decision may be reversed by peak oil /
Students hop on planes to save the planet /
Flying on holiday ‘a sin’, says bishop / Lutz: GM building hybrids for good press / EPA report charts the rise and fall of U.S. fuel economy
Peak Moment is a television series emphasizing positive responses to energy decline and climate change through local community action. How can we thrive, build stronger communities, and help one another in this time of transition? (16 more episodes are now online.)
