Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Richard Heinberg My experiences did not confirm the widely held view that world leaders know about Peak Oil and have secret plans to deal with it. …[The likely explanation] is that few if any world leaders understand this enormous, impending dilemma or have any idea what to do about it.
Linking regional farmers and buyers in Idaho
An experiment in back yard sustainability
Big Food’s lie about feeding the world
Malaysia: Fast food sector bows to ministry’s ad demands
Markets Don’t Work Anymore
Nigeria: Energy Infrastructure Firestorm
Fuel Lines by Lisa Margonalli (review)
This second part of “Round in Circles: a review of David C. Korten’s The Great Turning” looks into the intellectual roots of Korten’s proposed solution for the crisis of industrial society. Will a change of political leadership and ideology actually solve our problems, or is something else going on?
Monthly Review on ecological catastrophism
Coming to Terms with Nature
Deceitful Solutions To America’s Energy Dependence
EcoSocialism or Barbarism: There is no third way
How to cut the carbon pie
British Airways green scheme fails to take off
English village spearheads carbon neutral drive
Dimwits: Why ‘green’ lightbulbs aren’t the answer to global warming
Leading academics from an interdisciplinary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) panel issued a report today that examines how the world can continue to use coal, an abundant and inexpensive fuel, in a way that mitigates, instead of worsens, the global warming crisis.
As someone who is familiar with the literature and follows the peak oil story on a daily basis, I can report that the folks on the Portland Peak Oil Task Force have produced a succinct, outstanding report that should be read by every local official everywhere.
Letter published in Nature from co-founder of Beyond Oil South Australia, responding to recent Thats Oil Folks article.
The thrust of the article is what we have come to expect from a lot of the mainstream media. I hope the article stimulates a high-level conversation that is not just a short-term critical shot, much as that is easy and warranted.
The examples the New York Times article provides correspond to isolated incidences where advanced technology can get some “reasonably” large amount of extra oil out of an old field.
The New York Times article is an example of how specific data, cited as “proof” for a particular theory could in fact be evidence for the complete opposite conclusion if the entire data set was examined.
