Peak textiles – August 19
The end of cheap clothes is near
Dressing Locally
Waste management
Staff
Oil exploration — a lot of looking, not much finding
Long term oil is headed back up, for all the familiar reasons. Really, it’s not like anyone is finding new large oil deposits out in exploration land. Indeed, a whole lot of looking is leading to not very much finding in the exploration patch.
Oxen power for family farms
We read in the Bible of war-horses; of horses drawing chariots. But we never find an allusion to horses employed in the tillage of the land; for which by their gentleness, by the nature of the food which they require, by their great docility, oxen seem to have been formed by nature.
OPEC, peak oil and the end of cheap gas
Amid all the discussion about peak oil, one voice has been conspicuously absent, that of the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). OPEC’s position on the petroleum-resource question should be the decisive factor in this ongoing and seemingly inconclusive debate. The organization now supplies about 42 percent of the world’s petroleum …
Oil Producers – August 18
Bolivia gets the change it asked for
Life is a misery for ‘married bachelors’ in the UAE
Fresh start for Nigerian oil activists?
Housing & urban design – August 18
What is the future of suburbia? A freakonomics quorum
Watch where you’re walking (audio, slideshow)
Kunstler: Anti-Urban Bias (audio)
Solutions & sustainability – August 18
Bumps on the road to a greener city
San Francisco peak oil town hall meeting: What’s happening with oil? (audio)
Fred’s footprint: the best solution to climate change
Environment
The oxygen crisis
Suffocating dead zones spread across world’s oceans
“Green” land grab could sow seeds of new conflict
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 18
Buying into ‘organic,’ ‘natural,’ ‘local’
Slow Food Nation celebrates the good, clean and fair
Homer-Dixon: Everything is not peachy (food self-sufficiency)
What if we all got money-smart?
On American sustainability – summary
Message to mainstream America: our American way of life—300+ million people enjoying historically unprecedented living standards—has been enabled by our increasingly dysfunctional ecological and economic behavior over the past 200 years. Our existing way of life is therefore unsustainable; in fact, America is facing imminent societal collapse.
Our American way of life is unsustainable – evidence
Survey of the ecological and economic resources critical to the perpetuation of our American way of life.
Peak Oil – August 18
Peak oil is coming, and we’re unready
Geoscientist: Peak Oil Now? If so, Oil Prices Not Likely to Decline–Ever
Waking up to the threat of ‘peak oil’
Oilwatch Monthly – August 2008
