Peak oil voices – May 4
James Howard Kunstler on the Colbert Report
Kunstler responds to critics
Rep. Bartlett 43rd PO speech to Congress
Heinberg speaks with Vermont leaders
Staff
The just-in-time economy crumbles
The realization that just-in-time methods have ceased to serve us well comes at a time when it is exceedingly difficult and expensive to build a stockpile of anything.
Climate – May 4
Oxygen-poor ocean zones are growing
Nature article on ‘cooling’ confuses media, deniers
Farmers face climate challenge in quest for more food
Gas tax: it’s still time to increase it
The gas tax holiday is being properly blasted as the insane idea it is. In that context, could we go one step further and actually suggest that increasing the gas tax makes a lot of sense?
U.S. gas tax – May 4
Poll: US rejects gas tax holiday
Clinton dismisses “elite” economists on gas tax
Gas tax ‘holiday’ is a bad economic idea
Gas tax: it’s still time to increase it
The era of cheap energy is over
Transport – May 3
Your private air travel options are growing
Airlines reducing speeds to save fuel
Officials overestimate growth in vehicle travel
Housing & urban design – May 3
Guardian: Suburbs could be on the way out
Melbourne: A city on the edge
Cities of the future, today
Solutions and not – May 3
Greening away poverty
PG&E chief’s green crusade
Greenwashing: Who’s winning the green race online?
Amory Lovins: Forget nuclear
Review of Kunstler’s post-peak novel by a woman who has lived the life
One thing about survivalism: it isn’t pretty but it can be fun if approached in the right frame of mind. Many people fear the possibility of survival in difficulties like we had. Yet they were not all that great a challenge if one felt strong of mind and body. I got up at 5 am to start the fires, bake the bread and feed the livestock before sending the boy and the husband out the door.
Peach trees light up the old hen house – and vice versa
My favorite advice to homesteaders has always been not to do anything that can be put off until tomorrow because tomorrow you might not have to do it at all. Add to that the following: Don’t do anything that you can get nature to do for you.
Relocalization – May 2
Rethinking our food and fuel systems
Rob Hopkins: eco worrier
Totnes – their own currency
McKibben assesses environmentalism
Natural born survivors
Heinberg on resilient communities
Oil industry – May 2
Exxon profit soars, production falls
Lower oil production is the real story
Shell lambasted for pulling out of world’s biggest wind farm
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