Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Carl Etnier A world with energy doubled in price That’s the scenario for the year 2020 that 150 people in Addison County, Vermont considered for a day last weekend. The participants’ task was to figure out what they want their world to look like under that scenario, and then figure out how to move in that direction.
Many argue that suburbia was a terrible idea—a giant waste of land, capital, and culture. I largely agree. But there you have it: suburbia happened, with no refund available. It is time for the discussion to shift from “suburbia sucks” to “what are we going to do about it?”
Biggest energy winner under Obama may be ‘cleaner’ coal
Time to bury the ‘clean coal’ myth
Australian farmers fight coalmine
Electrification of transportation (Alan Drake interview)
Global pile-up ahead as US auto industry loses its drive
As temperatures rise, is there a future for movable homes?
Spooky eco house: the Dragspelhuset accordion house
The Austerity Issue: don’t panic (housewives to the rescue in Post-War Britain)
Guardians of the past uncover green lessons for the present (UK heritage)
Portland sustainability, personal responsibility and the prospect for oil’s full return
Nuclear Power May Be in Early Stages of a Revival
Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft ‘to transport millions’ says expert
Finland’s symbol of resurrection becomes showcase for hassles, delays and cost-overruns
A weekly digest of peak oil news including:
– Prices and production
– More project delays
– Russia
– The leak
– A report from Britain
– Briefs
I saw a headline in the paper today that said people are beginning to question whether to buy organic food because times are getting tough and they don’t want to spend the money on it. So, okay, let’s go back to eating food grown conventionally. And what will you spend on health care for the problems created by the pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, chemical fertilizers, hormones, and genetically altered and denatured food that results from that way of farming?
Oil reserve expert claims world faces ‘oversupply of energy’ problem
ASPO losing its raison d’être?
Paying the price for cheap oil
Food hunters of the urban jungle
Albert Bates: Biochar’s fractal dimension
Forget flowers, say I love you with vegetables
The food crisis and gender
Deer hunting with Jesus: Joe Bageant interview
Seismic shifts in the political landscape
A scary Halloween with Sarah Palin
Stiglitz: Reversal of fortune
Obama lays plans to deaden expectation after election victory
The Senate and the union hall: Where American climate policy will succeed or fail
Letter to Oregon Department of Planning and Development: “There is a dangerous disconnect between land use planning and development on one hand and population-based health on the other that can be remedied by recognizing and utilizing the specialized expertise Public Health provides. … Biology dictates that human health simply cannot be sustained in an unhealthy environment, and the use of our land – in urban, suburban, exurban, rural and frontier settings alike – is one of the most powerful determinants of our environmental health.” (Comment from a planner: “challenging comments… I’ve never seen anything like it before.”)
