Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As the energy crisis explodes on the rest of us, I’d like to advocate for mercy for those who don’t yet fully understand. … sympathy and kindness are not small things to be rationed out by droppers, only to those perfectly deserving – they should be ladled out and poured from buckets and flow out of us like rivers. Any scarcity of kindness is artificial – and far too many things are growing scarce for us to have artificial shortages of generosity.
Calm before the storm (Heinberg interview)
Nigeria – significance of the attack on the Bonga offshore oil platform
‘Profit From the Peak’ Q and A
James Howard Kunstler: Penetration
If you are listening to me now then you were born in The Age of Oil. A wondrous time when abundant energy has enabled humanity to work technological miracles. With enough energy we can solve any problem. … We are entering a new age, the Post-Peak Oil Age. Now the 100 year folly of modern economics comes to an end. No more fantasies that resources are infinite. No more delusions that growth goes on forever. Just us, all six billion of us, on our precious, fragile little planet. Now comes the hard part.
The story of the Singularity is sweeping, dramatic, simple-and wrong
George Carlin’s gift to Apocalypse
Class struggle, fossil fuels and environmental catastrophe
Chellis Glendinning on techno-fascism
Who will be the leaders who will carry us kicking and screaming towards the sustainable way of life that we should have been leading all along?
If you aren’t feeling some degree of apprehension right now, you aren’t reading the news. Here are some of my thoughts for turning that emotional energy into constructive action. (Author is a clinical psychologist.)
In this paper we will consider the implications of the dwindling supply of oil in light of the Olduvai Theory.
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
Daniel Lerch: PO challenges for local governments
How NYC’s congestion pricing plan crashed
Speech by Philadelphia Mayor Nutter inspires city planners
Kunstler on NPR
The end of the petroleum age (Heinberg on ABC-Australia)
What to do in Adelaide?
Peak Oil, deglobalization and ecolomics
Can religion help prevent eco-catastrophe? Orthodox Church leader thinks so
Why I love diggers and earthmovers
The geography of green consumerism
Where we ought to be: revisiting Total Loss Farm
Bellingham energy task force seeks volunteers
No Time for the Singularity
Just say “I don’t know”
Robert X. Cringely: It’s the Platform, Stupid: Baby steps are the way to energy independence
