How resilient is healthcare?
As with the financial sector and the automobile industry, healthcare will be humbled by the ongoing fiscal/economic crisis, which has hidden ecological roots and far-reaching social and political implications.
Dan Bednarz
On a tightrope without a net
The sum total of today’s news adds up to “the continuing story of the destruction of our protective safety nets.” GM’s bankruptcy is the lead, of course, one that constitutes an utter disaster for millions of people … Then there’s California
Shattered and shuttered
My daddy bought Chevrolets in the 1950s, marvelously crazy-looking machines with winged tail-lights that handled like pontoon boats, broke down after 30,000 miles, and were tossed out every couple of years not on account of their mechanical failures so much as their obvious lack of up-to-the-minute styling. The post-war prosperity dazzled his generation with its democratic cornucopian bonanzas. The innocence of all that is truly lost now. There is a dark sense of things shifting out there now in a major way.
Reinventing the informal economy
The single most significant project of the next few decades will not be dealing with “peak oil” or “climate change” or “financial crisis” – or rather, it will be all of them. Instead, it will be rebuilding the informal economies.
Prices & supplies – May 31
IEA output forecasts are ‘outside reality’: Aleklett
Exxon Mobil CEO tells shareholders that fossil fuels have long future
Western world is faced with the crude reality of rising oil prices
Blogger Conference Call with Robert Ryan, VP of Global Exploration, Chevron
Solutions & sustainability – May 31
Post Carbon Newsletter
The 8 Green Steps to Solartopia
Resourceful Guy Builds Solar House, Solar Power, Solar Car
Hypocritical modelers
Exxon and its fossil fuel partners in the denial lobby seem to like models well enough when they use them for their own purposes; but through their hired mouthpieces they decry the use of models for climate change forecasting.
Housecleaning
Let’s re-do the earth, shall we?
You see, there’s this problem with oil
and the worms are dying.
Obama tackles the liquid fuels problem
Today I’ll try to explain President Obama’s policy for decreasing oil consumption in the United States. Right now the administration has so many balls in the air that it is impossible to make a definite statement about what the effects of their initiatives will be, but a coherent policy is emerging if you gather all the pieces together.
Food & agriculture – May 29
For Personal-Injury Lawyer, Michael Pollan’s Book Is Worth Fighting For
Offshore; Food, Inc.
Industrial Local?
Review of RAND study, Imported Oil and US National Security (May, 2009)
RAND Corporation has brought its considerable expertise to bear on the national security implications of US oil import dependence…While this study examines this issue solely from an American perspective, many of its observations are applicable to other import-dependent nations. Although there is much of value in this report, I wish to challenge its central recommendation on how government should deal with price spikes and physical shortages.
Understanding peak oil – Why we need the national academy of sciences to study peak oil (petition)
A Call to President Barack Obama and to the Congress of the United States of America to Commission a Comprehensive Study of Oil Production Decline (termed “Peak Oil”): Facts, Impacts and Mitigation and Preparedness Options to be undertaken by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council
