Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
This past week I had the opportunity to spend a day with Amish relatives. This visit was colored by my acute awareness of civilization’s collapse and the ramifications of that reality for most of us.
Cars are driving us nuts (interview with traffic scientist Hermann Knoflacher)
Jan Lundberg: Fix the cities? Maybe not
Kunstler in Washington Post: “Wake up, America. We’re driving toward disaster”
Ben Stein in NYT: “Running out of fuel, but not out of ideas”
Energy fears looming, new survivalists prepare
The Australian co-founder of the permaculture concept David Holmgren has today launched a new global scenario planning website, Future Scenarios. Holmgren says his future scenarios will help both policy makers and activists come to terms with the end of the era of growth. “The simultaneous onset of climate change and the peaking of global oil supply represent unprecedented challenges for human civilisation. Each limits the effective options for responses to the other,” writes Holmgren.
Mexico’s battle over oil
Export Land Model in Mexico
Limits of economic growth in Latin America
$135 and rising … has cheap oil gone for ever?
Ken Deffeyes on Radio 4BC
Living with costly crude
Soaring prices are a warning that we need to change
Energy Watch Group’s updated report on oil supply (German)
Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov released
Panel Discussion: James Howard Kunstler and Nikos Salingaros
How the government could pay us to stay home and garden
Carolyn Baker: Rapid unraveling and the decline of adolescent America
The changing role of the peak oil-aware
Astyk: So, you’ve just discovered peak oil!
NZ Guide to Surviving the Future 2008
Dangers of focusing solely on climate change (or PO)
The suburb-eating robot
Intent shapes environment, environment shapes life
Pedicabs a hit in Bellingham
Rob Hopkins on permaculture (interview)
Dmitry Orlov details the Collapse Party platform
Gail Tverberg: Peak oil overview
Nate Hagens: Peak oil – whom to believe?
Sharon Astyk: Peak energy overview
Energy Bulletin: Peak oil primer
Among the most challenging dimensions of the crisis of industrial civilization is the task of preserving its immense cultural heritage into a future where today’s technologies of communication and information storage will likely no longer be available. The emergence of cultural conservers — individuals who make the preservation of some part of our cultural heritage a personal mission — offers one option for dealing with this challenge.
“A good place to learn about peak oil, energy conservation, energy efficiency, global warming—get it all in one spot.” (U.S. Rep. Vern Ehlers) The conference is scheduled for Friday, May 30, through Sunday, June 1 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
