Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Since the Nixon administration, America has put forth initiative after initiative to break our addiction to oil—with little success. Most rehabilitation programs are a 12-step process. The Bush Plan is Step one. We can no longer pay lip service to the impending problems that oil will bring to the international community.
As the price of oil increased rapidly in recent years, exporting nations that had foreign oil companies operating within their borders looked at the unprecedented profits being earned by IOCs and began asking, “Why aren’t we making that money; it’s our oil?”
Energy in the form of hydrogen, as well as biofuels, is one of the few mainstays of hope for clinging to global economic growth. What of lifestyle change and truly sustainable, local economics? That’s not what’s being planned for you.
What must it be like, do you suppose, to be a fireman rushing though a burning building, coming across a wealthy gentleman in his grand apartment who insists that, well, this is nothing, there is often smoke in the halls this time of the week – it is likely Mrs. O’Reilly burning her biscuits again.
Road to Perdition (the ‘streetcar conspiracy’) /
Shell looks to turn sand into oil /
Oil-Rich Venezuela Looks to Tar Deposits /
Ethantol: Lessons from Brazil /
GMO bacterium to produces 86% ethanol
Canada Pays Environmentally for U.S. Oil Thirst /
Too many folk on a planet too hot for comfort /
Drought worsens China water woes /
Atlantic Hurricane season opens /
Bush administration censors scientists again /
A Bestiary of Skeptics
Watching ‘The Power of Community’ with family /
Energy’s ‘three Rs’: a primer /
Build community, invest for post-collapse, get your blog read /
Solar power – seriously souped up /
Green building goes big
Lugar: energy more important than Al Qaeda / Chomsky: Why it’s over for America (energy & imperial overstretch) / Africa battles ‘oil curse’ / Greenspan to testify June 7 on oil and the economy / Matthew Modine: Tinseltown’s rainbow warrior / Robert Redford: Kicking the oil habit/ Iran’s territorial disputes with its Caspian sea neighbors
The idea of catabolic collapse is simple enough, and it’s best communicated through a metaphor. Imagine that, instead of the fate of civilizations, we’re discussing home ownership.
Two Studies Link Global Warming to Greater Power of Hurricanes /
The World’s Water Crises /
Canada Pays Environmentally for U.S. Oil Thirst /
Monbiot: The Building Inspectors Who Look the Other Way
A real-world island experiment /
A family of 4 — but no car /
Tending ‘Defiant Gardens’ during wartime /
Big Organic vs. local food /
Biodegradable plastics
Cleaner energy key to future, cheap fuel a thing of the past /
Be Prepared: Perpetual cheap fossil fuel a dangerous myth /
Venezuela’s oil model: Is production rising or falling?
