The Right to Pursue Powerdown: Seeking alternative lifestyles post-peak
What legal obstacles might prevent us from pursuing personal powerdown strategies and how might we change them?
Year: 2006
Small nuclear war could lead to cooldown
A small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, with environmental effects that could be devastating for everyone on Earth.
Unconventional war strategies
The war in Iraq has damaged the U.S. in many ways, both economic and political, but national debt and depletion of energy resources have the potential to destroy the nation. [To recover, the U.S. must] get its monetary and energy policies straightened out.
Peak oil – Dec 13
Coming soon – Escape from Suburbia!
Review – New Peak Oil Film “Crude Impact”
Interview with James Howard Kunstler
Elephants and quagmires: PO & the Bush denial
The foundations of peak-oil doomerism
Climate – Dec 12
Climate change is killing the oceans’ microscopic ‘lungs’
Alps experiencing warmest time in 1,300 years
Climate change wiping out crops in Sri Lanka
Vast African lake levels dropping fast
North Pole ice could vanish by 2040
Peak Oil to Peak Gas is a short ride
While Peak Oil is grudgingly accepted, at least to the extent that ‘After Oil’ is a buzzword in corporate planning and political policymaking circles; Peak Gas is an almost entirely unheard of and unwelcome spectre.
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 12
In praise of sweet darkness
Composting toilets offer solution to water, sanitation problems
How to give up cycling
Russia & China – Dec 11
Russian oil: a slippery substance
Russia to create giant company for oil and gas production at sea shelf
Shell offers to sell stake in Russian project to Gazprom
Chinese demand growth continues (for oil and everything else too…)
Australia: Common belief in climate change
In what’s believed to be a world first, 16 of Australia’s leading faith communities released a document on global warming.
Muzzling climate science – Dec 11
The Counterpurge (de-Stalinising the US energy complex)
Oil company money scandal at Nat’l Science Teachers Assn deepens
Climate scientist says the word ‘Kyoto’ barred
Lysenkoism
U.S.’s oil habit – Dec 11
Oil habit hard to break, experts say
UAE on Tom Friedman: Our reality, their spin
The mustache is the message
Bush to make energy a 2007 priority
Homeowner’s Insurance and Fire Extinguishers
Self acknowledged "doomer" author writes, "despite all the fun you have trying to plumb our doomer souls, a more important discussion is why we prepare for a crash, not why we believe in one."
