Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It’s a perfect time to take a look at what it means to own a home, to make a home, to rent a home. This is an opportunity to take the best from the old ways of doing things, and from the new, and to define “home” in a way that doesn’t place unsustainable burdens on resources, both natural and fiscal.
-IEA’s golden rules for gas are missed opportunity
-Campaigners’ anger over agency’s shale gas report
-Using shale gas over coal does not help climate, says big gas investor
-Shale play a worry for Bexar ozone
-Fukushima radiation higher than first estimated
-Fukushima gets mixed radiation report from WHO
-Weakened Fukushima nuclear pool is not unstable, Japan insists
-Japan’s radiation found in California bluefin tuna
-Reform the Japanese power system. Nationalize Tepco
Jeff Rubin is currently touring his new book, The End Of Growth. As the former Chief Economist for CIBC World Markets he brings an intimate knowledge of financial markets and how they work to the peak oil/end of growth community populated by other venerable thinkers such as Richard Heinberg, Chris Martenson and John Michael Greer.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The EU crisis
-Iran
-Retail gasoline prices
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
-Busting the carbon and cost myths of Germany’s nuclear exit
-The truth about Germany’s nuclear phase-out
-Germany sets new solar power record, institute says
-Germany Stalled on the Expressway to a Green Future
National security expert Michael Klare believes the struggle for the world’s resources will be one of the defining political and environmental realities of the 21st century. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he discusses the threat this scramble poses to the natural world and what can be done to sustainably meet the resource challenge.
I do not believe that most Americans — and that includes most policymakers and the media — understand the convergence of the recent scientific literature on the extreme threat posed directly to this country of Dust-Bowlification…
There are, as Andrew Simms points out in his most recent blog, two narratives about our economic choices moving forward from here, growth or austerity. Some argue we need austerity in order to get growth, others that we can just cut straight to the growth by printing or borrowing more money.
The California farming community is facing a demographic crisis. The average age of a California farmer is 58, and nearly 20 percent of them are 70 or older. As these farmers approach retirement, California needs to train new ones if we are to continue to feed our country and keep a healthy rural economy in the decades ahead. And with farm internships in California subject to strict labor laws, opportunities to get a hands-on farming education have become even fewer.
A video diary from the The International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas, Montreal, including video interviews with Juliet Shor, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and Gail Tverberg.
Josh Farley explains the concepts and implications of money as debt, GDP as a measure of the economy, and economic degrowth in this video interview recorded at the Montreal Degrowth Conference.
