Meet the Scrapers: Reducing Energy Use on the Cheap
In which we learn how a sensible family of limited financial means achieved their goal of reducing their energy usage and utility bills.
Claire Schosser
Questioning The Free Trade Mantra
In the matter of Free Trade, as with any ideology, there are none so zealous as the newly converted.
Not So Prolific: U.S. Shale Faces A Reality Check
U.S. shale’s possibilities may seem endless, but the low hanging fruit in terms of efficiency and costs savings has been picked and therefore current discoveries might not be so prolific.
Hearing More About Climate Change
Why is there a big gap between Americans’ stated interest in global warming and our discourse about it?
An ‘Undeniable Success’: Divestment From Fossil Fuels Passes $5 Trillion
Marking the divestment movement’s “undeniable success,” a new report shows the value of funds controlled by individuals and institutions who have vowed to dump their fossil fuels assets now surpasses $5 trillion.
Feeding Wessex without Fossil Fuels
How could an energy-constrained Wessex feed itself in 2039?
Indigenous Rights and the Fight for Life at Standing Rock
With the announcement that the Dakota Access Pipeline will be re-routed, the water protectors at Standing Rock might have won a battle but they have not yet won the war.
Water Song: Indigenous Women and Water
Water is life and needs to be respected. For the Indigenous people in Canada, there is a reciprocal and unique relationship with water.
Peak Oil Review – Dec 12 2016
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including: -Quote of the week -Graphic of the week -Oil and the global economy -The Middle East and North Africa -China -Russia -Nigeria -Venezuela -The Briefs
An Act of Remembrance
With Vince Guaraldi in the background, we wrote and addressed our annual Christmas cards last night. An old-fashioned exercise that echoes in our warm kitchen with news of the past year.
From Oil Age to Soil Age
To put it another way: modern citizens today use more energy and physical resources in a month than our great-grandparents used during their whole lifetime.
Growthism
Of course we all know at some level what a “healthy shopping season” is really healthy for: the economy–that thing, that thing which giveth, it is true, but also taketh away, and is still the only game in town.
