Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Pittsburgh: When the oil runs out
Mark Morford:
Stay home, read, have sex
Robert Reich: We need public transportation but can’t get it
Black Commentator: Taking the train to a clean environment, a sustainable economy & jobs
Short Attention Span Theater: a history of gas consumption in America
Pickup truck, SUV sales run out of gas
End of the road for Hummer after sales dive
Big vehicles stagger under the weight of $4 gas
EU plans clampdown on car ads
With less in tank, more get stranded
Dallas-area motorists running out of gas
“Green” auto insurance
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– Prices and consumption
– Subsidies
The ending millions of years ago of the “Snowball Earth” may have clues to climate today.
The New World Energy Order (interview with IEA economist Fatih Birol)
Dallas vs. Indonesia
The hollow victory of Rep. Bartlett
Airlines face ‘desperate’ situation, official says
Cheap flights era over as fuel prices soar
Airlines stage fightback on environmental criticism
Jamaica to revive railroad industry
One man’s crusade to plough up the inner city
World’s first edible high-rise
Organic farm’s wells going dry as water competition stiffens
Rethinking the flush: a practical solution to the water crisis
Biofuel bonanza not so sweet for Brazil’s sugar cane cutters (80% of jobs to go within 3 years)
US biofuel subsidies under attack at food summit
Petrol tax fuels ‘cooking oil wars’
In Spain, water Is a new battleground
LA Times: A chilling global warming forecast from the USDA
Climate findings were distorted, NASA probe finds
Harper says next climate treaty must be `realistic’
Half of Papua New Guinea’s forests gone by 2021
Jeff Vail: Falling dollar behind oil price rises?
Oil price crash not imminent despite bubble: Soros
Reports of oil boom’s death look premature
Oil price and hurricane season
Lehman Brothers: Oil price bubble will burst with a bang like dot-com did
How speculators are manipulating & profiting from the global food crisis
Shura member calls for oil production curbs in Saudi Arabia
Argentina halts Chile natural gas exports
Russia… energy priority #1
Caspian CPC May oil exports fall 9.5% vs April
Indonesia says good-bye OPEC, hello peak oil
Global net oil exports have declined for 2 years
In the past, religious movements have often played a central role in transmitting the heritage of a dying civilization to its successors. With the onset of decline into a deindustrial dark age arguably beginning around us, what are the prospects that this pattern might repeat?
