Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Michael Brownlee It’s quite a spectacle to behold. Here in Boulder County–Colorado home of the nation’s first carbon tax and the first city to offer property-based financing for solar installations and energy retrofits–we’re watching our County Commissioners wrestle with a proposal from six local farmers seeking official approval to grow Roundup-Ready GMO sugar beets on county-owned open space land.
A weekly roundup of Peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-an alternative view
-China’s shopping spree
-Briefs
Ray Leonard was selected last week to serve as CEO of Hyperdynamics Corp., a Houston-based and AMEX-listed oil and gas company with exploration assets in West Africa…A number of international organizations and elite audiences in Washington D.C. have heard his talks and have taken them seriously. Steve Andrews reached him last week and popped several quick questions.
In his famous work “The Waking.” Michigan poet, Theodore Roethke, offered sage advice for navigating unprecedented transitions and cultivating resilience. Wisely, the Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins establishes three domains for people who are awake to these transitions as they endeavor to journey through them into a post-industrial world.
– Questioning the direction of transportation policy
– Recession brings sharp fall in UK road deaths
– Relocalizing Vermont: We Just Paid $3,500 for Poultney Man’s 18 mpg Truck
– Matthias Reinig on Desertec Industrial Initiative
– Desertec Solar Project Shows That Green Investors Can’t Afford to be Too Green If They Want to Make $$
– European power from the desert is a Fata Morgana
– Stewart Taggart at Desertec-Australia on clean power from deserts worldwide
To say that our collective human fate lies somewhere between complete destruction and an endless cornucopian future is yet another narrative. Even so, such a narrative requires something the other two do not, creative engagement with the still unfathomable universe. That may be the one thing that emphatically recommends it above the alternatives.
Green Economics and how it might work
Washington’s Dilemma
Arnold Schwarzenegger in last-minute deal to save broke California
Global Power and Global Government: Evolution and Revolution of the Central Banking System Part 1
Candide’s Garden
Resilient Cities – planners post their vision
ASPO-USA, in concert with ASPO-International, invites you to join energy experts, investors, utilities, representatives from federal, state, and local governments, and others in Denver, Colorado for ASPO-USA’s 5th annual Peak Oil Conference.
There is a well-known story about how to boil a frog. If you try to throw a frog into a pot already boiling, he’ll jump out. However, put a frog into a pot and slowly raise the temperature – and you get frog legs for dinner.
