Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Michael Klare Surveying the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape, Michael Klare, the preeminent expert on resource geopolitics, forecasts a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger. (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
If you sleep between sheets that have been dried in the open air, you will understand why my wife and I never even thought about saving electricity when we put up the clothesline you see in the picture.
“You can play around with the words, but the hard-core truth is that something must come out of the ground at some time and that’s physics,” says Kjell Aleklett, professor in Physics at Uppsala University, Sweden, and president of ASPO International.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Monbiot piqued by peak oil planning (UK’s lack of)
Peak and ye shall find – it doesn’t have to be so bad
Billions of barrels of oil may lie under Northern Plains
There’s gas in those hills (Pennsylvania)
Canadian Medical Journal – Obesity reduction and its possible consequences: What can we learn from Cuba’s Special Period?
The recipe for food rights (Vandana Shiva interview)
Stewart and Lee Udall: A message to our grandchildren
NPR: Are we doomed? Why civilizations like ours fall
Failing ecosystems the mother of all bubbles
Recession, depression, collapse: What’s fear got to do with it?
UK road haulage: Crushed on the road to oil armageddon
The new age of the train
Grounded aircraft to be converted into trains
When cheap housing isn’t: how transportation changes the equation
It has been a truism from the beginning of civilization that cities require stocks of grain, surpluses that can last a year or even two to sustain them through drought or war. In the last two decades, the champions of the globalized trade system have turned that truism on its head and foolishly convinced governments and their leaders that food production and storage can be largely left to the marketplace. All that is changing rather quickly.
NYT editorial: The world food crisis
Starving Haitians riot as food prices soar
We’ll reap what we sow (US farm bill)
As prices rise, farmers spurn conservation program
Scrapping skyscrapers
Exhibit recalls architecture’s response to the 1973 oil crisis
Low-carbon living takes off in the US – cohousing
Kunstler and Homer-Dixon
First town in Europe to ban plastic bags
Schools offered uniforms made from old bottles
Harnessing biology, and avoiding oil, for chemical goods
Setting sail for Garbage Island (floating plastics)
Brazil builds £10m condom factory to help save rainforest
