Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff – Post Carbon’s Top 5 reads for 2010
– The Best of TheOilDrum.com 2005-2010
– 3 Documentary Films and 9 Ebooks about Natural and Green Building
– Post Carbon’s Must-see-media 2010
– Rare earth metals mine is key to US control over hi-tech future
– Three Car-Free Ways of Existence to Choose from
Having read enough books with Hubbert curves and charts of barrels-per-day to last us until the second Bristol Palin administration, we’re now into powerful stories that explore peak oil through suspense, romance and humanity. But so you won’t feel guilty having so much fun at the expense of the whole premise of industrial civilization, we’ve thrown in some more fact-y tomes too. Peak oil stalwarts from James Howard Kunstler to Richard Heinberg to Robert Hirsch made the list along with some surprising newcomers.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-China
-Briefs
ASPO-USA and Peak Oil Review have combined to pull together predictions about what we can expect in 2011 from a wide range of thinkers, writers, scholars and experts, who graciously agreed to risk being wrong so that you can have the inside scoop!
What will life be like if wealthy countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent or more? George Marshall finds a trip down memory lane can teach us plenty about a low-carbon future.
The truth about Boliviaâs flurry of noveau-tech modernization is that, while such a pursuit may have appeared to be the means toward sustainability and defense for an island like Cuba, under attack by the worldâs most potent nation-state in the 1960s — todayâs ecologists, environmentalists, social-movement activists, and traditional peoples assert that exploitation/expansion-based development can no longer be the way up and out.
Translation into Dutch of a talk by Dr. Albert Bartlett on population.
Welcome to a new kind of movementâone that reshapes how we think about ownership and cooperation.
Novels are good ways to impart information and put it into a social context. This one covers all the basics relating to our current predicament concerning peak oil without getting into an apocalyptic futuristic vision that has tempted so many writers.
– Why Bolivia Stood Alone in Opposing the CancĂșn Climate Agreement
– Is the Wikileaks Saga the Biggest Crypto-Environmental Story of 2010?
– Thinking Dialectically About Solidarity
– How nonprofit journalism is changing the ‘news ecosystem’
– Washington Post’s big story: Monitoring America: Your Local Neighborhood’s ‘Global War on Terror’
– NYT: African Farmers Displaced as Investors Move In
– US revolutionized agriculture to advance its foreign policy (review of “This Hungry World”)
– Idea #4: Create a Local Food Bill
– Food Swaps
– Game Theory: Climate Talks Destined to Fail
– A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning
– James Hansen’s conversation with Bill McKibben
