Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
World oil production probably peaked in 2008. Liquid fuel production, including oil, is indicated by the OPEC data to have reached a peak in July 2008 at about 86 million barrels per day, with its price peaking at about the same time. ASPO International agrees, as indicated on the chart page of their recent newsletters.
Jason Bradford: Revisiting relocalization
What are friends for? A longer life
Limits to growth model worth another look
Japan honours ‘Limits to Growth’ science author
Earth to aliens: let’s talk
The careless optimism of the technologists and the economists is predicated on simple-minded models of society and its relationship to the natural world.
On your trike!
Ditching shampoo a dirty little beauty secret
Studying open air museums for insights
Deadly Sins Taking Toll on the Earth
From Studying Chimps, a Theory on Cooking
10 Big, Really Hard Things We Can Do to Save the Planet
America needs passenger rail
Optimizing Transportation Infrastructure in a Changing World
Making Streets Safer For Seniors
Dark optmism: Jamais Cascio on The Transition Timeline
Transition Towns and participatory problem solving
Do Worry. Be Happy.
Are we at the beginning of an epic Depression, or at the bottom of a nasty recession with brighter days only months away? … These reasons for concern pale in importance before the deeper, more profound and systemic problems of our time.
In the 1970s a rising world population and the finite resources available to support it were hot topics. Interest faded — but it’s time to take another look
Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
A Future Too Big to Fail: Ecological Ignorance and Economic Collapse
Is the 2000 Watt Society Sustainable in Switzerland?
I don’t believe we can keep from becoming addicted to something. Once we accept this fact of life, the issue becomes whether we can work on controlling what we are addicted to–making it healthy and inexpensive rather than destructive and costly.
The failures of understanding that so often stymie communication in discussions of the future of industrial society unfold from the most basic models we use to make sense of our experience. Maybe it’s time to address those models and their implications directly, instead of assuming — incorrectly — that those who talk about the future are all talking about the same thing.
