July 2022: Warmest nights in U.S. history
As it melts records across the Northern Hemisphere, the scorching summer of 2022 has squeezed out the warmest month of nights in U.S. history.
Bob Henson
Mutual Aid Groups That Arose During COVID Gather to Build Power Regionally
More than two years after ad-hoc networks of collective care sprouted from the cracks of state neglect during the pandemic, mutual aid organizers across the U.S. are convening in Indiana this July to prepare these networks to face crisis, disasters and survival for the long haul.
Climate Knocking at Our Door: How to Integrate Climate into Our Sense of Self
It’s worth noting that all integration work – in our relationship with the climate and in any area of our lives – is not a “holy grail” we find at one moment in time and then the work is done.
The Animal Worlds That Lie Beyond Our Perception
What is special about humans that sets us apart from other animals? Less than some of us would like to believe.
UK household energy debt hit record high even before price hikes
A committee of MPs said last week that the government should “stop announcing short-term policies and moving existing budgets around and instead fully fund a national retrofit programme” of home insulation.
For a new politics of ruralization
The case for ruralism over urbanism as I see it is simply that the dynamics of climate, energy, water, soil and political economy are going to propel multitudes of people to the world’s farmable regions sooner or later.
The Status of Global Oil Production (Part 2)
I don’t expect oil production from the Middle East OPEC countries to significantly exceed the production rates of 2018/2019 in the future irrespective of what the U.S. wants them to produce.
“Getting to zero” is a lousy goal
But in our reality in 2022, with far too much carbon dioxide already flowing through the atmosphere and the climate crisis worsening every year, knowingly emitting more greenhouse gases for another two decades is a shockingly cavalier dance with destruction.
The renewed clamour for growth: ignorance, stupidity or immorality?
Yet, for a politician to advocate increased economic growth, given the evidence, they have to be ignorant, wicked or stupid.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 8 August 2022
U.S. distillate consumption has begun to fall in line with the deceleration in manufacturing activity.
Now is the Time to Prepare
In economics there is a proposition known as Dornbusch’s Law that states: Crises take longer to arrive than you can imagine, but when they do come, they happen faster than you can possibly imagine.
William Cobbett’s ‘Cottage Economy’: the future is material
Cottage Economy is not, however, just a nineteenth-century DIY manual. It is also a fiercely polemical defence of smallholding as a way of life.
