What should members of the peak oil movement call themselves?
If we don’t label ourselves, someone will do it for us.
Activism
Coming out of the eco-closet
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.
Middle class angst: The politics of lemmings
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.
Media – Nov 29
Society of Environmental Journalists: Guide to information and disinformation about climate change
Cold Facts: good climate documentary waffles
News reporting faces web challenge, warns New York Times editor
The newspaper in the days of digital anarchy
Transport – Nov 27
France’s secret weapon to beat global warming: the horse
Ford chairman talks up bikes, mopeds, public transport: ‘individual car ownership as we know it today will change’
Bicycle respect: fighting the motorheads
CNN: Must we give up our cars?
Fascism, feudalism, and the future
A number of writers on peak oil now insist that the American political class intends to impose a “feudal-fascist” regime on the world. A look behind this rhetoric exposes some uncomfortable issues in the contemporary peak oil movement.
Deep thought – Nov 11
From state-based sovereignty towards bright green governance
World energy to 2050: a half century of decline
Sharon Astyk: Scared? Duh.
Transport – Nov 11
Ed Black on who killed the electric car and the electric streetcar
Want better transit? Unionize!
Ship emissions seen causing 60,000 deaths a year
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 8
Innovative program helps residents protect their water
Environmentalism with a social conscience
Taking the tasty approach
Green computing update
Hoping for a new New Deal
Is it realistic for peak oilers to look to the New Deal as a model of how the US political system could respond to the crisis? A historian of the New Deal is afraid not.
Let’s play “Peak Oil Shock Me”
An increasingly popular parlor game among peak oil activists is to see who can serve up the most shocking morsel of peak oil news at any one sitting. There are now plenty of morsels to choose from on an almost daily basis.
Deep thought – Nov 2
The world’s expected carrying capacity in a post industrial agrarian society
Saving the ecosystems of Middle Earth
John Michael Greer: the politics of transition
