Peak oil – Apr 1
WSJ: Billionaire cashes in on offshore oil rush
Peak oil = transportation revolution
M. King Hubbert on the nature of growth
Culture & Behavior
Phosphorus – Apr 1
World’s phosphorus situation scares some scientists
Aldous Huxley on phosphorus depletion and endless growth (1928)
Phosphorus in “Brave New World”
Righteous protests or religious fanatics?
Everywhere in the world, grassroots movements are solidifying a response to the impact of globalization, but this trend is going unreported or misinterpreted. The Santi Asoke Buddhist group, a network of eco-villages in Thailand, is misunderstood by the media and even by many Thais themselves.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 31
DIY sustainability from ex-race engineer, now minister
Saving the planet the Swiss way – via a self-propelled world odyssey
Green progamming on Sundance Channel
Take your Uncle Scam advance and buy tangible investments
Deep thought – Mar 31
Asking a judge to save the world from black holes and ‘strangelets’
An act of “biopiracy” 130 years ago enriched England and devastated Brazil
The Pentagon’s cyborg insects
Confessions of a peak oil writer
I’ve come to accept that my influence is going to be very limited. The trick is not to let frustration hamper your ability to do a job you still consider important. While we can be encouraged by the example of the geologist M. King Hubbert, we don’t have 30 years to get this peak oil problem straightened out.
The Collapse Party platform
This being an election year in the US, I thought it fitting to circulate my little wish list of items that the US government could try to accomplish if it suddenly decided to make itself useful. [Excerpt from Reinventing Collapse]
When socialists take Wall Street
The unfolding spectacle of the American central government’s impotence in the face of disaster ought to make us ponder whether solutions for any of our problems can actually come from above.
Deep thought – Mar 29
Kurt Cobb: Energy efficiency won’t matter without energy caps
Heinberg’s Peak Everything talk at Findhorn
Slavery’s staying power – more slaves worldwide than ever in history
Why I localize
I have been working on localization for the past four years. Sometimes it has felt like I am swimming upstream. Actually it still feels like that – the difference is that now the current is not quite as strong.
Kunstler’s World Made by Hand: Not just another book review
Kunstler has provided us with an incredibly well-written depiction of the demise of civilization and what that has already begun to mean and will mean for all of us and for future generations.
Deep thought – Mar 25
Wall Street Journal: New limits to growth revive Malthusian fears
Passover as if Earth really matters
