Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Tom Whipple If the report that OPEC exports are really down by 4.3 million b/d is true, we are likely to be seeing some sort of reaction in the form of higher prices shortly. All the evidence suggests that while oil demand dropped last fall, reports from the major agencies, the IEA and EIA, do not suggest that the drop in consumption is as much as the 4.3 million b/d that OPEC is trying to cut.
What matters now more than ever, and what is getting lost in all the immediate economic turmoil, is the unprecedented scope of the problems we face in the 21st century. Great change is inevitable. Trying to hang on to the way things have been—seemingly endless exponential GDP growth— is a mistake. Focusing exclusively on fixing the economy to get back on the business-as-usual growth track obscures much bigger problems coming down the road.
Monbiot: Cutting consumption is more important than limiting population
Interview with William Halal and Dmitry Orlov
World Made by Hand and post-apocalyptic fiction: a prepper’s perspective
[Within the next three weeks, my forthcoming book, Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse will be released and will be available for purchase at this website and at the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites. Below is the book’s foreword written by Sarah Anne Edwards, Ph.D. and co-author of Middle Class Lifeboat.
Obama focuses on green economy in speech before Congress
The Obama Code
Economic Crisis Complicates California’s Goals on Climate
Oil’s not well in Canada
A Marxist view of Obama’s prospects
Bill Clinton on the Future of Energy
Legalizing cannabis: is the ground shifting?
U.S. Housing Starts Fell to Record Low in January
Sustainability interview: Peter Newman and Timothy Beatley
America’s Top 15 Emptiest Cities
In Maricopa, Ariz., a Paradise Found and Lost
Sonoma Mountain Village: Is Green Suburbia Possible?
After the crash, Iceland’s women lead the rescue
Teaching Cuba’s Energy Revolution
The Answer is in the Trees
In Paris, an anti-ad insurgency
The man behind Obama’s online strategy
The death of the news
New report: “Public media 2.0: dynamic, engaged publics”
At EntropyPawsed, we have a hand pump well. This reminds us at least daily of our water usage. This daily reminder encouraged us to develop our current system of dish washing in which we use about one gallon of water to wash the dishes.
Non OPEC-12 Oil Production Peaked in 2004
“A Farm for the Future”… essential viewing
Sovereign wealth eyes move into commodities, oil
Are Reserves of the Largest US Coal Field Overstated by 50%?
Energy Security First (Canada)
Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner
Recession grows interest in seeds, vegetable gardening
Small-Scale Grain Raising
Feds: Less water for California agriculture this year
Fairtrade Week: smallholders farm a route out of poverty
