Crisis & collapse – May 18
Expert warns climate change will lead to ‘barbarisation’
Thomas Homer-Dixon interview
The Onion: Everything falling apart, reports Institute
Staff
US natural gas: the role of unconventional gas
US natural gas production has been flat for a number of years. We keep hearing that US production is expected to begin declining sometime in the next few years, but it doesn’t seem to happen. While it is not obvious from most published data, the reason production remains level is because unconventional gas production has been rising.
Stop me before I fill up again!
It is a supreme irony that a wealthy Bedouin should be playing the role of a tough-love drug counselor to the world’s oil-addicted consumers even as he continues to be the globe’s biggest pusher
The same new ideas
A crucial role in shaping the future will be played by cultural conservers – individuals who choose to take on the task of learning and preserving some part of the cultural legacy of the past, and passing it on to the future.
Politicians on peak oil – May 17
Queensland Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara
Andy Welti (Minnesota House)
Connecticut State Rep. Terry Backer
Dysfunction – May 17
Obesity contributes to global warming
Why puberty at an ever-younger ages?
Environmental results of the Gold Rush
Not as green as they claim to be
Turn on the spigot, please – May 17
Saudis rebuff Bush, politely, on pumping more
No oil for you
US says it will help Saudis protect oil
US-Saudi oil axis faces day of truth
Saudis: Will boost oil output in June
Peak oil – May 17
High steel prices: A preview of peak oil
Peak Oil doomsters debunked, end of civilization called off
Peak oil: alive and well at Sprott
Peak oil Australia
Prices & supplies – May 17
UK BERR projects oil at $70 in 2020
Some see oil bubble; others see trouble
Refiners see profits sink as consumption falls
LA Times: Keep stockpiling oil
Visible hands
As “The Long Emergency” begins to unfold, it’s becoming evident that we’re going to need to relearn to use our hands to do immediately useful work, become more self-reliant and less dependent on the marketplace to sort things out.
Oil, food and agrotherapy
It is a good time for an increasing number of people to return to the multiple benefits and pleasures of growing at least part of their own food by gardening and farming. In addition to satisfying the need to eat and drink, farming can also help deal with depression, passivity, and other forms of psychological suffering. It can help treat both the body and the soul.
Dammed, displaced and democratized
As founder of the earthen building movement in Thailand, Jo Jandai has contributed much to the concept of living sustainably. … We later stopped at a mountain community that had formed in the wake of a ten-year protest. I had been intrigued by this band of villagers that had set up camp on the lawn of the elegant parliament building in Bangkok. The villagers had lost their homes due to a large dam project (funded by the World Bank) flooding their land.
