Energy – Jan 7
– The end of the U.S. ethanol tariff
– Building a better suntrap
– Storehouses for Solar Energy Can Step In When the Sun Goes Down
Year: 2012
Transition and solutions – Jan 7
– Hyper-local markets provide big economic boost
– The New Metropolis
– Will the Resilience Movement Help the World Cope With the Resource Crunch?
– Resilience: The Next Big Word for 2012
– The Best of Permaculture Media 2011
Heinberg, Kunstler, Foss, Orlov & Chomsky on A Public Affair
Richard Heinberg joins James Howard Kunstler, Nicole Foss, Dmitri Orlov and Noam Chomsky in a panel discussion. Reviewer: "These extraordinary clearseers analyse precisely the catastrophic crises which — amongst many other things — are bringing on the steady, relentless collapse of the US empire."
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ODAC Newsletter – Jan 6
The New Year failed to ring in the customary changes this time round. The great economic hangover moves into its fourth year with many predicting that things will take a turn for the worse during 2012. Geopolitically, the standoff between the West and Iran escalated over the holiday, hoisting oil prices over $113/barrel once again.
Work, Reimagined: Detroit gets creative
“Today we need to combine learning with work, political struggle, community service, and even play.” Those words, painted across the center of a mural on the back of an empty building, in Detroit’s Cass Corridor, come from the school’s namesake, 96-year old philosopher, writer, and activist Grace Lee Boggs.
Everything you could possibly want to know about ‘In Transition 2.0′
“In Transition 2.0” is nearly ready to be unveiled to the world! We are very excited about this inspiring reweaving of the Transition story, and want to tell you more about it here, and about how it will be rolled out over the coming months. To get us started, because we are so excited about sharing this with you, here is the film’s trailer, completed just yesterday, directed by Caspar Walsh.
Occupy Educated: Educating and Uniting 100% of the 99%
Unlike the plethora of other calls to “Occupy!” specific locations with your presence, the phrase “Occupy Educated” is not a call to Be Somewhere, it’s a call to Be Something.
Why “But We Walked On the Moon!” doesn’t mean what they think it does
If you have followed energy issues from anywhere other than a cave on a mountain peak, you’ve probably heard technoutopians utter some variation on the following sentence two or three hundred times “We walked on the moon – of course we can do whatever it takes to shift from fossil fuels to some other source of energy.” The moon shot is perceived as the ultimate example of “put in a quarter and get out the technological outcome you want” in our history. If we could set out to put a man on the moon and do it in less than decade, can’t we do anything we want to, with just enough ingenuity?
Energy – Jan 6
-Canadian crude oil production to increase 3300% by 2100
-Burning Oil to Keep Cool: The Hidden Energy Crisis in Saudi Arabia (report)
-A perilous and crucial quest – video interview with Daniel Yergin
-Brazil, short of biofuel, can’t open spigot to US
Economics – Jan 6
– Climate Change – Our Real Bequest to Future Generations (climate trumps debt)
– Austerity Reigns Over Euro Zone as Crisis Deepens
– Nobody Understands Debt
– The Danger Debt Poses to the Western World
Oil Shock – The No Growth World
In a peak oil world, no further growth is possible. If China grows, somewhere Western consumption must shrink. And “shrinking” isn’t pretty says Jeff Rubin. He’s the former CIBC markets Chief Economist, speaking at ASPO 2011 in D.C., along with oil market guru Charles Maxwell. “Economy Past Peak Oil” panel plus Radio Ecoshock interview with ASPO Italy founder Professor Ugo Bardi (author of “The Limits to Growth Revisited”) on peak oil versus climate change.
The peak oil crisis: closing out the year
The year ended with little change in the assessment for the prospects for global oil supplies. Despite all the hype concerning new oil finds and technological breakthroughs in oil production, these developments still are not contributing enough new oil to offset the annual decline of 3 million b/d from existing fields and the annual increase of circa 1 million b/d of new demand. The bottom line among those following this issue is that global oil production likely will start to decline in the next one to five years as depletion gets ahead of very-costly-to-produce new sources of “oil.”
