Renewables & efficiency – Mar 27
The Secretary of Synthetic Biology
Washington County puts its energy into saving energy
Leaving PCs on overnight costs companies $2.8B a year
Greenwash: Shell betrays ‘new energy future’ promises
Staff
Waste & recycling – Mar 27
Rise In Frugality Leads To Drop In Trash Collection
SXSW FILM: Garbage Dreams
Large agriculture operations add billions to our economy but what price are we paying?
ODAC Newsletter – 27 Mar
A weekly review from a UK perspective
Media & persuasion – Mar 27
Peak oil game designer: “Make people happier”
Leaders and Champions of Alternative Media
The Sphere of Deviance
The Secretary of Synthetic Biology
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has recast the energy problem to give himself the 20 to 80 years he requires to find a way to replace oil. His long range solution involves applications of synthetic biology to create 4th generation biofuels. Is this a good solution? Is it realistic?
Food & agriculture – Mar 26
A Farm for the Future
Planning for peak oil
Why the foodie press needs to do better work on seafood
Peak oil notes – Mar 26
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Venezuela
Climate & geopolitics – Mar 26
Melting snow prompts border change between Switzerland and Italy
Maldives rises to climate challenge
A global ‘national security’ issue lurks at Bangladesh’s border
Galloping With Blinkers On
What do bailouts of failed financial corporations and funding for current fusion power initiatives have in common? If Arnold Toynbee is right, one of the keynotes of our collective failure to respond to the crisis of industrial civilization.
Where we are headed: Peak oil and the financial crisis
Nearly all of the economic analyses we see today have as their basic premise a view that the current financial crisis is a temporary aberration. We will have a V or U shaped recovery, especially if enough stimulus is applied, and the economy will soon be back to Business as Usual.
The peak oil crisis: pondering the near future
What appears to be lacking in the current economic debate is a coherent plan of where the U.S. and indeed the world’s civilizations need to go. Unfortunately the only stated, and politically feasible, goal at the minute seems to be a return to “economic growth,” an objective which is clearly unrealizable in the midst of the current but as yet unrecognized transition to non-fossil fuel energy.
Deep thought – Mar 26
The Peakist
Book review: Future Scenarios by David Holmgren
In Review: The Road to Sustainability
Towards a New Sustainable Economy – Robert Costanza
LEARN: An Acronym to Avoid Societal Collapse
Energy Descent, and A World Without Property
