Solutions & sustainability – Jan 29
-Oil Is Too Important To Burn In Cars
-Beyond rhetoric
-three paths to a low-car city
-Saving Sub-Sahara Africa a Drip at a Time
-How Can Haiti Be Sustainable?
-Straw Homes That Would Have Foiled the Wolf
Culture & Behavior
Deep thought – Jan 29
-Welcome to the Plutocracy
-The Neoliberal State
-Parecon & Participatory Society
Vision for Sustainability, Resiliency by Post Carbon Institute
What will we do post growth, post cheap energy, post resource abundance and post climate change? The Post Carbon Institute (PCI) convened its first meeting of Fellows this weekend in Berkeley to address these concerns. Many there and elsewhere have argued that these transformational changes are already becoming evident.
This Presupposition of Passivity
Much of the conversation about community on the peak oil blogosphere in the last few weeks has tacitly assumed that Americans had their communities taken from them by circumstances, if not by some sinister cabal. In fact, of course, most Americans actively walked away from their communities, and continue to do so. Maybe it’s time that we ask why.
The Peak Oil Crisis: A Meeting in California
Absent from the meeting was any representation from our political leadership who are currently busy: 1) denying there is a problem; 2) trying to spend our way out of the recession; or 3) simply overcome by the pace of events and do not want to rock the boat by speaking publically on such matters before the next election.
Sarkozy at Davos – Jan 28
-Sarkozy seeks a new order and throws down gauntlet to China
-Davos 2010: Sarkozy calls for revamp of capitalism
-Sarkozy’s Unpragmatic Vision
Economics – Jan 28
-Investors add spice to rising food prices
-God, Keynes, and Clean Energy
-Peak Autos: America’s Love Affair with the Automobile May Be Coming to an End
-Pavan Sukhdev: you can have progress without GDP-led growth
-What Can We Learn from Gift Economies?
UK – Jan 28
-UK Government Classifies Eco Activists as ‘Extremists’ Alongside Al Qaeda
-UK call for European CAP farming subsidies reform
-Moorlands and hills targeted to grow crops for biomass and biofuels
Davos Conference – Jan 27
-Davos 2010: Barclays’ Bob Diamond attacks Obama’s banking plans
-Davos Dialog Will Downplay Carbon, Talk Up Energy And Infrastructure
-King calls for ‘radical’ banking reform in UK
-Bankers Return to Davos With a Bit Less Swagger
United States – Jan 27
-Must-read report: The decline of Central Appalachian coal
-How Anti-Immigration Groups Are Hijacking the Environmental Movement
-If Corporations Were Human
Growing Good People Through Work, Study, and Community
Just outside Asheville, North Carolina, bordered by the Craggy Mountains and located in the Swannanoa Valley on the banks of the Swannanoa River, Warren Wilson College students are busy moving the cows to their next pasture and cutting locally harvested lumber at the on-campus sawmill…
A short history of peak oil preparation
Frankly, when I first learned about peak oil, I was a bit freaked out. But after time, a little too much wine, a lot of research, and some productive action, I recovered, and went on to slowly change my attitude, expectations, and lifestyle to accommodate a radically different reality from the one I previously knew.
