Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Steve Andrews “We’re not going to have to help the oil industry. They already have all the help they need. I wouldn’t take away what they have but I wouldn’t add to it.”(Charlie Maxwell is the life-long oil industry analyst viewed by Barrons’ magazine as their energy guru.)
Sailing plastics to the Garbage Patch (Kon-Tiki made from plastic bottles)
Ozone saver is global warmer
Bill McKibben on U.S. climate politics
McKibben: I’m spewing carbon for your benefit and mine
All-expense-paid workshop on covering nuclear energy
Amy Goodman: Free speech vs. surveillance in the digital age
Why the press fails us and how to fix it
Time Wastes Too Fast (a wonderful link)
Bartlett votes against cap-and-trade
Monbiot: Why do we allow the US to act like a failed state on climate change?
Recession brings ‘Las Vegas dream’ to an end
Hansen of NASA Arrested in Coal Country
Why do we rape, kill and sleep around? (environmental psychology under attack)
When does a packed but happy crowd become a dangerous, even lethal one?
Psychological and evolutionary roots of resource overconsumption
Kirkpatrick Sale: Let’s get rid of the economy of growth
Consuming within recharge rates
In a sense the Transition Initiative places itself as a social tipping point, with dramatic and positive consequences where the sudden wisdom of communities breaks through the stolid unwisdom of national government.
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Perhaps you have heard of the Peak Oil theory? Most people have by now, even the people whose job used to involve denying the possibility that global crude oil production would peak any time soon. Now that everybody seems a bit more comfortable with the idea, perhaps it is time to reexamine it. Is the scenario Peak Oil theoreticians paint indeed realistic, or is it firmly grounded in wishful thinking?
First, I look at similarities in unemployment, eviction and homelessness during the 1930’s and today. But in the second section, I was surprised to learn how similar the psychological, social and emotional impacts are between our Great Depression and theirs.
Which Matters Most? The Size of the Tap or the Tank?
Peak oil: myth or reality?
German-language “Global Oil Briefing No.5” now online
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Uganda ‘at risk’ of losing all its forests
Growth of global carbon emissions halved in 2008, say Dutch researchers
The Pacific isn’t the only ocean collecting plastic trash
A fierce debate now rages among economists, investors, pundits and the puppetmasters of fiscal policy: What’s next, inflation or deflation?
