Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
10 ways recession can help the environment
Re-Energize Texas summit – if Texas can do it…
The one-tonne-carbon lifestyle
Making conventions environmentally friendly
Don’t let the green grass fool you (Suburbanites awake)
Alex Steffen: Jim Hansen, Climate Code Red and the atmospheric singularity
Carolyn Baker: Holding vision alongside current reality
Dmitri Orlov: Money as metaphor
The (un?) sustainability of growth
Middle School teacher Aaron Wissner wants to get the word out that energy is about to get very expensive — a Wall Street Journal article would do nicely.
The upside to peak fertilizer
Nitrogen pollution stomps on biodiversity
Astyk: Time for a new Victory Garden movement!
Studies conclude that biofuels are not so green
Fermentation and food: The revolution will not be microwaved
Farming the Amazon with a machete and mulch
Homogeneous horror in agriculture
Bob Waldrop on local food systems
The birth of a farmers’ market
It took a near-ice experience and tomorrow’s potential challenge of an early, icy, 11-mile trip to get me to do a simple thing with immediate rewards like change out my bike tires. What, then, does it take to get people to make much bigger changes in their lives to prepare for a world with less abundant energy?
In depth report on San Francisco Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force
Energy Roundtable: Simmons, Hirsch, Rubin
Understanding the current energy crisis in South Africa
Move it, you just might get younger
California to probe development of ‘green’ chemicals
From buses to blogs, a pathological individualism is poisoning public life
The discussion at The Oil Drum takes a more personal nature with me; much of my own history involves looking back toward a simpler time in agriculture. (The account of a “recovering energy engineer.”)
Abu Dhabi’s zero-carbon ‘ecotopia’
Berkeley envisions ambitious energy plan
Address climate change through land use
Making the transition
TOD blockbuster: “Powering civilization to 2050” by Stuart Staniford
Will peak oil drive relocalization?
Investment guru Jim Rogers: $90 to $100 oil not high enough to slow demand
Barclays Capital: Triple digit oil price regardless of peak
Peak oil activist in the Wall Street Journal
Shell: Fuel crisis looms by 2015
US petroleum supply, ethanol, and state of the industry
