Hostage Situation
Okay, so President Obama didn’t run for office to help out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street – or so he said on CBS’s “60 Minutes” show Sunday night. But maybe it didn’t seem like such a bad idea once the election was over.
James Howard Kunstler
Web & media – Dec 15
-Climate Change is Coming to Town—bicycle version
-Tiny Tim Movingly Predicts Climate Change in 1967
-Reorienting Environmentalism
Transitional demands
From modest beginnings as a permaculture class project at a college in Kinsale, Ireland, the Transition movement has spread its message of community resilience and low-carbon living around the world.
GAO study: Energy-Water Nexus of Biofuels
Three weeks ago the US Government Accountability Office released a 50-page analysis of the nexus between biofuel production and water resources.
There is plenty of oil but . . .
There is a huge amount of oil which theoretically can be extracted, but the question is whether the cost will be cheap enough for us to be able to afford to extract it. If the oil is too expensive to extract, the shortage of oil seems to cause a recession, similar to what we are having now. I discuss this in purely monetary terms, but it is also an issue with respect to low energy return on investment (EROI), for those of you used to thinking in EROI terms.
Degrowth Seminar, Copenhagen Klimaforum09
Our villages and cities are dying because of intense development. Everywhere in México, the same force is at work. It weakens our villages, sickens and kills their inhabitants. It destroys our communities and makes a mockery of our traditional commons.
Critically Thinking Copenhagen
Everyone is talking about climate change and Copenhagen, so I suppose I should be…The latest dither around the topic involves back and forths between adherents and deniers of the climate change hypothesis and a certain expose of emails supposedly refuting the reality of climate change and a plethora of rebuttals to those emails.
How to Break the Climate Stalemate Between the Global South and the North
To stop the climate crisis, we’re going to have to build a fairer world.
Peak oil review – Dec 14
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Baghdad’s second auction
-Climate change
-The IEA’s peak
-Briefs
Canadian Oil Sands Misses Unrealistic Projection – Issues Another
Canadian energy authorities have done it again. They missed their last rosy projection of future oil sands production, so they issued a new one: they merely pushed the big surge in production 5 years into the future.
Fear and loathing in the blogosphere: doom, gloom, and controlling the message
Lest you think I’m all about unwarranted criticism, the reason I keep turning to these particular blogs is because I enjoy their writing. So, although I’ll be poking a little fun and pointing out the absurdities I observe, I’ll keep reading these folks as long as they keep me entertained or informed. I’m especially inclined toward humor, and especially writers who manage to take their own messages seriously without taking themselves seriously.
Culture Wars Between Farmers
We are all well aware of the no-man’s land of cultural difference between farmers and non-farmers…But there is another cultural divide coming to the fore in our society, this one between farmer and farmer.
