Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Researchers predict that 100 million early deaths could be prevented by cutting global emissions by 50% by 2050
Bill McKibben in Australia (audio)
Kurt Cobb: Geoengineering the Climate: Bad for You and Our Energy Future
Mission to break up Pacific island of rubbish twice the size of Texas
Jeffrey Sachs on Taxing Carbon
The Wind does NOT Blow “Only 1/3 of the Time”
Yes, we can solve the energy crisis
The Value of Wind – why more renewable energy means lower electricity bills
A weekly round up including:
– Prices and production
– Venezuela
– China
Some of us think humankind will be running low on exploitable fossil fuels in the first half of the 21st century. Resource depletion can change climate change scenarios significantly. I’ll briefly present my version of that story here, my confidence buoyed by the knowledge that such a narrative can not possibly be less reasonable than positions staked out in the global warming debate.
Answer: don’t own a car.
ASPO’s October conference in Denver
Feasta: The New Emergency Conference – June 10-12 in Dublin
Letter from Sweden: The State of the End of the World
Using Thermodynamics to (Re)Examine Environmental Kuznets Curves
Why I Fired My Broker
The Century of The Rights of Mother Earth
More Cyclists Means Fewer Accidents, Says Report
Car-Free in America?
Building a Low Cost EV in 1 Week
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars
Cities Can Save the Earth
Why Can’t We Build an Affordable House?
American Radicals as Co-op Housing Pioneers
Green ‘Czar’ Pushes Jobs, Community-Building (audio & text)
Obama’s Weird Idea of Auto Industry Rescue: Use Our Money to Build Car Factories Abroad
Buying Brand Obama
Kunstler: Decoupling From Reality
Getting America Off Oil: The Oil Solutions Initiative
Prophets of an indefinite expansion of today’s “information society” too often forget that information doesn’t exist by itself; it requires a physical substrate, and if that goes away, so does the information. As the age of cheap energy comes to an end, relying on a substrate as energy-intensive as the internet may be a risky bet.
Oil Prices: Norwegian Supply Falls; Is $100 Oil Far Away?
RAND says cost of oil supply disruption worst threat
Tight storage may lead to huge oil price drop
New PhD thesis: Depletion and decline curve analysis in crude oil production
