Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Toby Hemenway Our food system is woefully dependent on petroleum.Yet in the developed world, the food system may be one of the last to fail during energy descent. This isn’t to say that industrial, oil-based agriculture is invulnerable, let alone sustainable. But there are many reasons why our fears of a food collapse—particularly when they lead us to a go-it-alone, grow-your-own response—may be distracting us from focusing on more immediate and likely risks.
Al-Naimi says Saudi oil output below target; stockpiles to fall
Where have all the gold mines gone?
Energy in Latin America: US proposes “variable geometry”
“Peak Summit” (TOD-ASPO) June 26-28 in Perugia, Italy
Aleklett talk: the peak oil view
A Government still addicted to petrol
UK police caught on tape trying to recruit protester as spy
Politicising the policing of public expression in an era of economic change
California’s low-carbon fuel standard has oil companies anxious
Obama’s secret weapon: the web
Congress seeks “kill switch” for Internet
Congress, EPA, EDF ignoring energy curtailment and clean-coal oxymoron
Jason Bradford: Revisiting relocalization
What are friends for? A longer life
Limits to growth model worth another look
Japan honours ‘Limits to Growth’ science author
Earth to aliens: let’s talk
The careless optimism of the technologists and the economists is predicated on simple-minded models of society and its relationship to the natural world.
Fast-growing Alberta town manages its water as if it were liquid gold
What % of water that goes down the drain is actually lost forever?
Recession slowing water investment to a drip
Palestinian water crisis deepens
Rod Dreher’s big idea: raise chickens
Corporate couple become permaculture activists
Will recession spark global food crisis?
Don’t throw out the biochar baby with the bathwater
Book advocates Integral Fast Reactor (IFR)
Schlesinger and Hirsch: Getting real on wind and solar
California takes on King Corn
Switzerland’s one-man bank
Survey: Americans reclassifying luxury, necessity in recession
Crisis plunges US middle class into poverty
Sharon Astyk: Rates of return
US ‘soft power’ and the banks
Colin Cambell has now written newsletters for 100 months. 100 months is a long tenure. In his first letter he introduced the world to a new term, ”Peak Oil”.
On your trike!
Ditching shampoo a dirty little beauty secret
Studying open air museums for insights
