Media & persuasion – June 2
Communicating Transition
Empathy Marketing 101
Miller-McCune Receives Utne Independent Press Award
Staff
Volunteer translation checkers wanted
The Post Carbon translation team is currently seeking fluent speakers of Italian, French, Czech, Croatian, or German to spend just an hour or two checking translations of works by Post Carbon Institute authors for accuracy.
A K-5 Curriculum for Students in the Post-Carbon Era
Will education be important in the post-carbon era? What will need to be taught? What skills need to be acquired? We hope to provide one alternative for educating students, after the fall of empire.
Oil & the economy – June 2
Impact of Rising Global Demand on the U.S. Recovery
Kevin Drum on the coming volatility in oil prices
The recession: First, there was expensive oil
Jeff Rubin Talks about Oil and the Economy
Peak oil & supplies – June 2
The latest peak oil projection: a stunning difference (Aleklett vs IEA)
Peak oil professor challenges IEA figures
Energy shock and oil myths (Rubin and Tertzakian)
ExxonMobil’s 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report (CCR) – & peak oil?
Global Storage Constraints Limit Oil Stockpiling
Renewables & efficiency – June 2
Jeff Vail: The Renewables Hump 3: The Target
Electricity figures show energy efficiency isn’t working
‘Clean-tech’ start-ups are pushing the green button
Deep thought – June 1
The context of ‘low product”: how designers can help articulate a new social language
The Oil Drum BookCollage – #1 of 3 (Energy, Ecology, Sustainability, Etc.)
‘Earth 2100’: the Final Century of Civilization?
Borderline bankruptcy: A Bioregional alternative?
Climate & environment – June 1
Rajendra Pachauri: The Silent Suffering
Wangari Maathai: ‘We Know What to Do: Why Don’t We Do It?’
Monbiot: Stern breaks the east-west deadlock on who’s responsible for CO2
71 arrested in Copenhagen resisting World Business Summit on Climate Change
Peak oil review – June 1
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-The rebound
-Brazil
-Briefs
United States – June 1
How Obama Made Energy Platform ‘Pop’
The Democratic-Industrial Complex
Raising CAFE standards won’t work
How resilient is healthcare?
As with the financial sector and the automobile industry, healthcare will be humbled by the ongoing fiscal/economic crisis, which has hidden ecological roots and far-reaching social and political implications.
On a tightrope without a net
The sum total of today’s news adds up to “the continuing story of the destruction of our protective safety nets.” GM’s bankruptcy is the lead, of course, one that constitutes an utter disaster for millions of people … Then there’s California
