Meet my solar dryer
The rewards of a well-used solar dryer are by no means limited to the energy and dollar savings reported on the monthly utility bill. The best part of the package is the time spent outside.
Consumption & Demand
Energy – Dec 28
IEA report rings alarm bells for energy security
Discussion: energy crisis in the Urals
At war with Russia?
New US fuel ratings set double standard
Avatars consume as much power as Brazilians
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 27
Book review: Peak Oil Prep
Paul Hawken: What’s next
3,000 people get by without buying new things
Being green can make you happy: new study
Slow food’s growing pains
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
Let them wear hats
Environmental organizations do not ask people to change their fashion sense or consider warming up their body and not the house like the Japanese do. No one is asked to change anything. Just program the thermostat and forget about it.
Consumption & health – Dec 15
Luxuries of past become necessities
Fattest people on planet
The exhaustion epidemic
Has politics contaminated the food supply?
Vegetarianism: the choice of the ‘more intelligent’ child
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 10
How many farmers do we need to change the world?
McKibben On reforming our supersized society
Slow clothing
Affluenza – Dec 6
Affluenza, Prozac and Pavlov’s dog
Conspicuous consumption comes out of the closet
Asian affluence: going, going, going up
The rich vs. the filthy rich
Dare to consume less
Dropping out – Dec 6
My back to the land fantasy (And why it feels more real every day)
Ran Prieur: How to drop out
Village blog: Dropping out (added 7/12)
Post-peak pessimism: Looking for new tools
Rob Hopkins of Transition Culture recently asked, could pervasive peak oil pessimism be the result of men realizing we are ill-equipped to handle what is coming? The answer is yes. We need new skills and new tools.
Health – Dec 1
Will global warming release diseases from glaciers?
Analysis: Wealth brings new health threats
Cooling towers are a hotspot for evolving disease
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 30
Travis Bradford: the revolution will be solarized
Not-so-glamorous conservation works best
Third-World laptop for $150
Stan
Goff eschews Marxism, looks to local communities
What we can do about passing the energy tipping point
