U.S. energy policy – Dec 24
Democrats’ energy goals likely to be modest
Yes, oil from Venezuela
Energy sect’y Bodman: This needs to change
Nancy Nadel on Oakland’s oil independence resolution
Building Community
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 24
Holiday-induced thoughts about peak oil
How to have a green Christmas
Community size in a post-fossil-fuel age
Skilling up for Powerdown – course notes
Global warming-era parenthood
Henry Miller quote
Rail – Dec 24
Rail boom hits environmental, NIMBY snags
North Coast Railroad Authority
Rail-Volution
“Happy Relocalisers”, Doomers, Wheelwrights and the concept of Resilience
A key concept in the whole responses-to-peak-oil debate of whether one might prioritise individual survival over communal survival, or vice versa, may well be one found in the study of ecology, that of resilience.
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 21
New German community models car-free living
Software & community in the early 21st century
Permaculture for the inner landscape
A natural builder creates an ecovillage
Suburban renewal – one backyard at a time
Peak oil – Dec 21
Ten principles of post oil-peak planning
The energy detensive economy (for local governments)
Peak Oil Blues – interview
PO & GW do not fit a socially believable disaster profile
Alternative to powerdown?
New documentary: “What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire”
Mike Ruppert back in U.S.
Cuba’s strange path
Cuba has become the poster child for a transition away from an agricultural economy based on fossil fuel inputs and for a society focused on self-sufficiency. Strangely, it may owe much of its success in this regard to its relative backwardness and its isolation from the world community.
Nawida 2150
A final narrative exploration of life in a deindustrial future, fifty more years and several rounds of planetary change after “Solstice 2100.”
Pope calls energy alternatives a source of peace
In an annual message for peace, Pope Benedict XVI strongly emphasized a theme rarely taken up in his nearly two years as pope: what he called the “ecology of peace,” the idea that protecting the environment and finding alternative energy sources could reduce conflict.
Peak oil – Dec 13
Coming soon – Escape from Suburbia!
Review – New Peak Oil Film “Crude Impact”
Interview with James Howard Kunstler
Elephants and quagmires: PO & the Bush denial
The foundations of peak-oil doomerism
Australia: Common belief in climate change
In what’s believed to be a world first, 16 of Australia’s leading faith communities released a document on global warming.
Mavens, mavens everywhere…
The peak oil movement lacks enough connectors and salespeople. Many of those concerned about peak oil come from technical backgrounds: physics, geology, engineering and computer science. In other words, the peak oil movement has an embarrassment of mavens. This is a great plus, but not enough.
