Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Steve Andrews Marshall Adkins is the Houston-based Managing Director of Energy Research for Raymond James & Associates, a full-service investment firm. ASPO-USA’s Steve Andrews caught up with him last week to follow up on his pivotal May 4, 2009 “Energy Stat of the Week”–Peak Oil in the Rearview Mirror: Why We Think Global Oil Production Peaked Over a Year Ago.”
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Demand, production, and prices
-South Asia
-China’s Growth
-Briefs
The crisis of economic institutions is leading to Capitalism 3.0. The sooner “peak oil “is accepted as an undeniable fact, the shorter and less traumatic the historic transition will be.
Last week one of the three main French trotskist group – Worker’s Struggle – published an editorial denouncing “degrowth” as “reactionary”. I am no fan of French style degrowth. Most of the time, it is hardly more than a revolutionary mythology repackaged as ecology…Yet the red hard-liners’ reaction is interesting because it highlights one of the industrial world’s most pervasive delusion : the faith in science as an all-powerful mean to manipulate reality.
Nigerian Peace Remains Elusive After Oil Region Truce
Obama Visits Africa’s ‘Oil Gulf’
West Africa: Another Stab at the ‘Resource Curse’
The future is abundant, asserts permaculture designer Larry Santoyo. His vision of living in the present provides a wonderful antidote to fear about uncertain futures. People need to rediscover that we’re part of the ecosystem, and apply permaculture design principles to the many problems we face.
John Weber’s Boise, Idaho house with south-facing windows rarely needs heat and never air conditioning. Meet a man who has built a passive-solar house with solar electric power and solar hot water; plus a solar-powered electric car — and who rides a bike!
Judy Wicks’ love of place has made widening ripples on a global scale. She’s the founder of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies), a national network of sustainable, small businesses.
Asking “wouldn’t it be wonderful if our city could feed itself?” Joe Leitch ponders everybody in Portland planting a chestnut tree. Pam Leitch relates how they both left the corporate world after reading the book Your Money or Your Life.
Noah Raford is an urban planner and the Director of Space Syntax Limited in North America. This show discusses how complex social systems become inflexible, leading to their collapse, and what strategies individuals aware of collapse might use to cope.
As the economy shrinks so does our consumption. Do we view this as a bad thing or an opportunity? Jim Merkel, (author of Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth) and Peter Lawrence (author of The Happy Minimalist) chose to earn less money and live more simply.
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