Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Conservationist pins hopes on clotheslines
Urban farmers living off land
What you can do about PO and petrol prices
Cleveland
task force to address future of fuel
The Post-Materialist: Design’s past, future
How to live with just 100 things
One approach to sustainability: Work less
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?
Sharp power-price rise hits Texas
Texas: Electricity price flies off the grid
Shockingly high electricity prices may await Americans this summer (new)
Texas wind farms choked off from grid due to insufficient power lines
Indonesia hospitals unprepared for blackouts
Vermont: Grid in danger
Less is more: decreasing the number of scientific conferences to promote economic degrowth
Visual images of consumerism statistics
John Papworth on Transition Towns
Do schools kill creativity?
Nigerian president defends slow pace of reform of power system
NZ blackouts ‘likely without savings’
Iran drought forces power cuts
Eskom CEO: Crisis to last years in South Africa
Nova Scotia Power ready to fight as Venezuelan company cancels coal contract
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– Prices and consumption
– Europe
– India
Garden centres are crammed with the most pointless unnecessary clutter, very little of it of any use to anyone who actually wants to garden, to grow anything useful. They are temples to a lost generation so removed from the land and from seeing gardens as something essential and as something productive that it beggars belief.
The Saudis vote for Obama (by saying ‘no’ to Bush)
Growing demand in producing countries pushes up price
Indonesia: Thousands protest fuel price plan
Indonesia: Oil firms short on output targets
Soaring bills leave families just £50 a week
Saving for survival: New Zealand traditions
Astyk: Tinkerbelle economy starts to falter
What if gas cost $10 a gallon?
While hard work and discipline are essential to the successful life, true success is not in an award, or bank account balance. It’s in the number of real friends you have, and intangibles such as your ability to enjoy life in deep and profound ways, and to have stood for something far greater than your own comfort, convenience, and bank account.
It is a supreme irony that a wealthy Bedouin should be playing the role of a tough-love drug counselor to the world’s oil-addicted consumers even as he continues to be the globe’s biggest pusher
Obesity contributes to global warming
Why puberty at an ever-younger ages?
Environmental results of the Gold Rush
Not as green as they claim to be
