Peak oil & supplies – June 4
Member of German Parliament Sounds Death Knell for Carbon Energy
A Call to Action on Peak Oil
The Trouble With Energy
Hamilton on speculation, inflation and oil
Oil Demand Falling Fast In Japan
Culture & Behavior
UK & Europe – June 4
Allotment demand leads to 40-year waiting lists
Looking at Europe’s Green Ways
Energy policy of the Greens
Mike Ruppert reviews Carolyn Baker’s “Sacred Demise”
In the rare instances where I come across a book that is a feast for the mind and soul I wrestle with it as with a lover. Pages get dog-eared, the pen comes out and notes appear all over. Great passages are underlined. There are coffee and wine stains. This marks my affair with a great book. “Sacred Demise” is the first such book I have read in many years.
Look on the Bright Side
Recently I’ve begun compiling a list of things to be cheerful about. Here are some items that should bring a smile to any environmentalist’s lips:
Children
Many people understand times will get tougher. Most people also have kids. Yet publications that discuss peak energy, the environment or the economy rarely talk about children, or how to train them for the world they foresee. Whether you have kids or not, it’s a useful exercise – it means thinking seriously about what the world might look like in ten or twenty years, beyond a blurry pastiche of Hollywood apocalypses.
Earth 2100 – June 4
Special documentary by ABC – ‘Earth 2100’: the Final Century of Civilization?
Reviews by peak oilers
Deep thought – June 3
Apathy threatens humanity, ex-Clinton aide says
Ten reasons why population control can’t stop climate change
‘Generation Green’ Environmentally Oblivious
Water & environment – June 3
Overcoming the stigma of ‘toilet-to-tap’ water
The World Water Crisis: High Cost, Low Priority
Is the Water Supply for 8 Million People in New York City at Risk?
Housing & urban design – June 3
Setting the pace to create the greenest building ever
Car-Driven Society Poses Health Risk for Americans
Bryn Davidson on Peak Oil, Climate Change and Transportation at the 2009 Art Center Sustainable Mobility Summit
The fifth problem: peak capital
Much of what we are seeing now may be a symptom of peak capital approaching: airports, roads, bridges, dikes, dams, and about everything that goes under the name of “infrastructure” are decaying everywhere in the world. The whole economic system is becoming unable to maintain the level of complexity it had reached just a few decades ago.
Media & persuasion – June 2
Communicating Transition
Empathy Marketing 101
Miller-McCune Receives Utne Independent Press Award
A K-5 Curriculum for Students in the Post-Carbon Era
Will education be important in the post-carbon era? What will need to be taught? What skills need to be acquired? We hope to provide one alternative for educating students, after the fall of empire.
