The Energy Bulletin Weekly 25 October 2021
Futures rallied last week on concerns that rising consumption is racing ahead of supply. Oil prices rose early on Thursday, with Brent Crude rallying to $86.10—the highest price since October 2018.
Tom Whipple
This Week on the Latest Episode of “Bubbles:” Cryptomania
Many have made millions on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—literally from nothing—but now things have started getting really kooky!
Institution Size as a Window into Cultural Evolution
In this essay, I explore the idea that the size composition of human institutions, as it exists today, provides a record of cultural evolution.
Homage to soil
I believe this situation is applicable to the majority of the world’s farmers – in front of us is a monumental task, we need not only to maintain but to build soil fertility, which we must and can do by commencing a new relationship of the soils under our management, harvesting and growing the body of experience and evidence of the pioneers of soil building both historic and living.
The Global North caused the climate crisis. Now is the time to pay its dues
If the first pillar of climate change negotiations is mitigation – how can we work together to stop carbon emissions? And the second is adaptation – how can we change to cope with the changing climate? Then loss and damage is the third – an idea originally muted in the 1990s by small island states, but gaining increasing traction.
Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men
Enclosure — the transformation of common resources into private property — was a fundamental feature of the rise of capitalism in early modern England. It involved not only new ways of using the land, but also, as both cause and effect, new ways of thinking about it.
The Fight Against Extinction Requires Biocultural Restoration
Now’s the moment for us to learn from our eco-civilizations of the past to ensure we can have a civilization in our future.
Reinventing Commons Governance in Modern Times
I believe commoning remains one of the more promising avenues that we have for addressing the profound structural challenges of contemporary politics, economics, and culture.
Growing Food and Latino Culture in Tucson’s Barrio Centro
Although urban agriculture has a long history, Barrio Centro is part of a more recent movement to increase food security in underserved, largely ethnic communities while retaining or reclaiming cultural traditions and values that people can share and express through those spaces.
Talking Radical Imagination with Max Haiven
The radical imagination is something that emerges when, as I was mentioning, people come together to struggle against the reality that they’ve been forced into.
Leaked documents reveal the fossil fuel and meat producing countries lobbying against climate action
Some of the world’s biggest coal, oil, beef and animal feed-producing nations are attempting to strip a landmark UN climate report of findings that threaten those domestic economic interests, a major leak of documents seen by Unearthed has revealed.
How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel?
George Cove, a forgotten solar power pioneer, may have built a highly efficient photovoltaic panel 40 years before Bell Labs engineers invented silicon cells. If proven to work, his design could lead to less complex and more sustainable solar panels.
