Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Graham Strouts Renewable sources of energy cannot come anywhere near to replacing fossil fuels in sufficient quantity to keep running the current globalised, capitalist industrial economy, according to Ted Trainer’s new book.
There is hope to be found, but it’s not hope that lets us “Pass Go and Collect $200” (i.e., a hope for a comfortable, stress-free life). Rather, it’s a hope for a new life in which we are the architects of our own survival.
Sometime in the next few months, some event is likely to set off a spike in gasoline prices. Be it a hurricane, terrorist attack, adverse geopolitical crisis or some credit crisis development, the realization will dawn that we are extremely short of gasoline and have little hope of remedying the situation over the short term.
The question of what to do about the imminence of peak oil has become tangled up with questions about who to blame for it. A hard look at this thinking may be in order.
Place matters (the joy of walkability)
Transition Town Maidenhead in the news
To teens in the first decade of the 21st century
Restoring native landscapes – from a dump to a park (+ jatropha)
Orangutans squeezed by biofuel boom
Are switchgrass’ days numbered?
Inside scoop from a biodiesel pioneer
Ethanol from poplar trees – how much land would it take to fuel our cars?
Biodiesel demand grows across continents
Climate activists target Asia-Pacific summit in Australia
Controversial Greenpeace ad on climate change
2 out of 3 Canadians polled say warming is ‘very serious’
Nobel Prize winning economist Schelling on a post-Kyoto agreement
Why we believe myths
BBC drops climate change special, claims impartiality
BBC decision a joke
China flexes muscles of its ‘informationised’ army
Global growing problem of wheat production
Days of cheap food are over, say superstores as ingredient costs soar
Moscow considers wheat export ban
Mountains of wheat grow as price rises
Concerning coal – the cheapest alternative
Plans for new coal plants stalled by growing opposition
Offsets aren’t enough
Mount Stripmine?
Peak Oil and climate change? Blame Cornwall
Global warming might make rails sing again
EU climate flight plans ‘deluded’
Technical issues stall hydrogen vehicles
Get plug-in cars on the road
Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years
New Times Atlas displays effects of climate change
Dams ‘contributing to global warming’
