Daniel Liu

Children

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Many people understand times will get tougher. Most people also have kids. Yet publications that discuss peak energy, the environment or the economy rarely talk about children, or how to train them for the world they foresee. Whether you have kids or not, it’s a useful exercise – it means thinking seriously about what the world might look like in ten or twenty years, beyond a blurry pastiche of Hollywood apocalypses.

Gardeners and farmers less fearful of death?

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When our bed of irises bloom for one brief but glorious week in late May, I think, strangely enough, of a letter a friend of mine received from a doctor in Minnesota. The doctor observed that in his medical practice, rural people face the prospect of dying with more equanimity than urbanites.

Portland Spaces: Collectively Green

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The Bouwes house is part of a wave of forward-thinking building that is redefining Cully, a sleepy and sometimes forgotten northeast Portland neighborhood, as a miniature hotbed of sustainable construction…At the same time, and not coincidentally, Cully is in the grip of a social lifestyle revolution of middle-class, multigenerational families creating a new breed of society. At the moment, that revolution is playing out in the Bouweses’ dining room.

Peak oil & supplies – June 2

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The latest peak oil projection: a stunning difference (Aleklett vs IEA)
Peak oil professor challenges IEA figures
Energy shock and oil myths (Rubin and Tertzakian)
ExxonMobil’s 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report (CCR) – & peak oil?
Global Storage Constraints Limit Oil Stockpiling