Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Dan Bednarz Medical executives center their attention on “cost, quality and coverage” while considering rising energy prices, especially oil, a minor concern. This is a colossal misjudgment of medicine’s dependence on fossil fuels and the fact that the “hydrocarbon era” is entering its final stages.
If we don’t label ourselves, someone will do it for us.
The image of a surfer chasing a tanker illustrates perfectly the oil-dependence of the sport as a whole. It is the definition of a free ride.
Being Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender in this culture isn’t easy. Yet many of you are finding your way in that. And as you take a stand, are you not finding empowerment and perhaps even excitement at times? I invite you to do the same regarding the state of the world.
The deepest fear in suburbia, never spoken aloud, is that when this epoch unravels, Suburbia’s citizens quite simply will not know how to survive… The real choice that Suburbia will face is one between fascism or self-sufficiency, which is a choice – as well – between spiritual death or spiritual renewal.
Managing waste should be a major concern for all of us – I decided to find out more about how it’s done here in Bundaberg. Why not do some research and find out waste management differs in your area?
We can be garbage free
N.Y. activist preaches deliverance from retail
EB Review: The Humanure Handbook
Rudd Kyoto promise pleases business
Asia faces “unprecedented” water crisis
A fifth of UN carbon credits may be bogus
Stern: Climate change a ‘market failure’
“People want to protect themselves a little bit” (study of climate denial)
Trucks are lining up in their hundreds at three stations in Chongqing, China, in the hopes of getting 40 litres of fuel. In this city of 10 million, only those three are still selling diesel. This may be an economics-induced dress rehearsal of the reality that will face the rest of the world in the post-peak oil universe.
Will military action against Iran work to secure oil for US interests? In order to answer this question, it must be put into the context of peak oil.
[This is the executive summary of the McKinsey Report which is described in, and referenced by, the New York Times article I just submitted.]
Economist: Gulf countries rethink currency pact with the dollar
Jerome a Paris: Concern-trolling the euro
Ecuador’s Correa pushing OPEC to switch to stronger currency
Facing up to the falling dollar
