Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Total energy executive on the end of oil: ‘We have to save, save, save’
Article Review: Depletion and the Future Availability of Petroleum Resources
The Upside of Piracy
The ‘Peak’ Summit: An Informal ASPO & Oil Drum Gathering (June in Italy)
India’s Farming ‘Revolution’ Heading For Collapse
‘Green Revolution’ Trapping India’s Farmers In Debt
Punjab farmer suicides cast shadow on polls
What Your Neighborhood Needs is a Seed Library
A weekly update including:
– Prices and production
– Bankruptcy
– Total SA Executive speaks out in Der Spiegel interview
Among the implications of the implosion of the global economy over the last year is that the great quarrel of the Cold War years between capitalism and socialism was a contest between two dysfunctional and failure-prone systems. As peak oil becomes a fact of life, is it time to start looking for other options?
Andy Rooney Comments On The Changing Environment And Admits He’s Part Of The Problem
WWF Scotland boss calls for energy wasters to be prosecuted
The Gospel of Consumption and the better future we left behind
Equality Needs to Be Our Organizing Principle
Consumption dwarfs population as main environmental threat
There is more to the sustainability problem than just renewable energy, transportation and food – and that is our infrastructure. Large agglomerations of people living under reasonable conditions in the 21st simply cannot continue in a healthy, sustainable state without clean water, sewage, electricity, communications, a source of warmth and a transportation network to move life-sustaining supplies about.
“Planet Forward”: PBS’s viewer-driven program on getting away from fossil fuels – this Wednesday
Monbiot: We spend millions on smallpox, but nothing on this far greater threat (PO)
Has OECD oil consumption peaked?
Green ink: Big Oil, small cars and beach bars
India Rejects Calls For Emission Cuts
Rich-Poor Divide Still Stalls Climate Accord
What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia
World can halt global warming, activist says
Local sourcing and organic foods are among the top 20 hottest trends for 2009 for restaurants and it’s no wonder. People want tasty, clean, farm-fresh fruit and vegetables from farmers they know and they want to support their local communities and businesses
The Coming Siege of Austerity
What’s the secret to an endless vacation?
Austere Times? Perfect
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
– Production and prices
– IEA’s Forecast for 2009
– Investment during the recession
– Briefs
Organic sites on food-safety bills (HR 875, etc.)
G8 warns of hunger threat to global stability
Walker’s World: New food crisis looms
