Solutions & sustainability – Oct 15
Popular Mechanics on appropriate technology
Change the message to save the planet
What a way to go – wake-up call
The environmental movement in the Global South
Culture & Behavior
Deep thought – Oct 14
Farm work vs. gardening- what makes work unpleasant?
Think-tank confidential
The pain of caring too much about the Earth’s death
Gandalf, Gunpowder and Neil Gaiman’s cats (hope and doom)
Powerdown revisited/As the world burns
The three scenarios that I see as most likely:
– Feudal Fascism
– The Eco Deal (“Environmental Keynesianism”)
– Bottoms Up
Climbing down the ladder
Most efforts to devise new social and economic arrangements for the aftermath of peak oil attempt to make the transition to sustainability in a single leap. In the future of slow decline we most likely face, a different strategy may be more useful.
Peak oil – Oct 10
Van Jones: ‘Grow the comfort zone’
Heinberg attacks airlines’ bid to fly more Kiwis
Hubbert Linearization applied on Ghawar
BBC-Wales: Peak oil, local food and transition
Think oil can’t go higher? Think again
News Round-up from TOD:Canada
ODAC News
Deep thought – Oct 10
Economist: Playing games with the planet – “prisoner’s dilemma” suggests ways to break the Kyoto impasse
Monbiot: In this age of diamond saucepans, only a recession makes sense
We are in a bad fix: the peak crises
Nature: Is this what the world’s coming to?
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 8
Science on a shoestring (tools for resource-poor countries)
Enviro-conscious apartment living
My journey to sustainability
Documentary: Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp
Deep thought – Oct 8
Sharon Astyk: The Fertile Crescent and the closed circle
World moves into the ecological red
The prophet misarmed: Trotsky, ecology and sustainability
Review: Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
Willits and the problem of slow knowledge
After three years, Willits, while still a clear leader in peak oil preparedness, has not achieved nearly the progress envisioned by Bradford and other organizers. While their sense of urgency still remains, they have begun to realize that municipal governments move at what seems like a glacial pace and that public awareness is not the same as public understanding.
Of doomers, realists, powerdowners and fantasists
A response to the recent article on Stuart Staniford’s holiness, with musings about the "doomer’s" soul, as well as remarks on hope as an idol.
Broken robots: technology reconsidered
While technological innovation will be crucial to making the transition to a zero-waste society, it will only be helpful to us if we can learn to control its unintended consequences.
The holiness of Stuart Staniford
Ruminations about Stuart Staniford’s work at The Oil Drum from a Christian perspective, why he exhibits some religious virtues and why the doomer perspective does not.
