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Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Sharon Astyk I’ve heard over and over about marriages struggling when partners have different ideas about the right thing to do about peak oil/sustainability/climate change. There are real and serious reasons that people are better off going into hard times with stable marriages and good support systems.
Texas House favors gas tax break
40 percent of babies watch TV, study finds
Review of Consumed by Benjamin Barber
Oil minister: Saudis may not need to raise oil capacity after 2009
Nigeria escalation
Wildcats & tigers: China’s oil acquisition strategy
Peak Oil as a behavioral problem (scholarly publication)
Dismay over nuclear ‘solution’ to climate problem
NASA warns climate change could cook Atlantans (110 degrees?)
China says threat from global warming ‘urgent’
Climate change issue heats Capitol Hill
Lovelock: Fiddling with figures while the Earth burns
Greens praise Murdoch’s News Corp climate pledge
21 Worldchanging principles in 21 days
Astyk:
Starting the riot for austerity
Lester Brown:
Momentum grows to “Ban the bulb”
For a warmer future, Australia employs Aboriginal wisdom
Greenhouse crackdown scuppers Kipper gas field (Australia)
U.S.’s thirst for liquid natural gas growing
The cost Of coal on the environment
World Bank: A world of difference in energy access
IEA:
Outlining the options for our energy future
Castro on energy and biofuels
Whatever religion or combination of religions rises to prominence as industrial society slides down the far side of Hubbert’s peak, the religious dimension will very likely play a massive role in the way today’s society’s adapt to tomorrow’s world of harsh limits and harsher choices.
Big Oil running out of oil
Review of Pfeiffer’s Eating Fossil Fuels
Gas gouging legislation – finding scapegoats
Maersk: oil production in North Sea at peak
ODAC News May 9 (JUST ADDED)
A new study prepared for the European Commission Joint Research Centre reports: “the world could run out of economically recoverable (at current economic and operating conditions) reserves of coal much earlier than widely anticipated.”
Trying to bring peak oil to the hometown. An example of the Semmelweis Reflex.
From unusually low gasoline stocks in the spring to frenzied Chinese economic growth later in the year — all seem destined to play a role in how much money you will be leaving at your favorite gas pump later this year.
