Looking beyond – May 7
NYT: The silver lining to impending doom
Heinberg: Talking ourselves to extinction
Peak oil, carrying capacity and overshoot
The sprirituality of collapse
Culture & Behavior
Solutions & sustainability – May 6
The hippies were right!
Accidental sustainability and why we can’t sustain it
Ooh! Shiny!
WorldChanging in April
The transformation of manufacturing in the 21st century
Peak opportunity
What has a chance of being far more effective [than an environmentalist approach] is to focus on what fundamentally will motivate all of us: personal well-being and survival.
The point of despair
It is at the point of despair that people can feel deep down their connection to all that has come before them and all that will come after. It is not just their personal futures that are at stake anymore. It is the whole project of human civilization…the future of the natural world.
Religion and peak oil: The twilight of fundamentalism
The failure of the modern faith in progress in an age of peak oil bids fair to leave the field open for radically different ideologies. Is Christian fundamentalism poised to fill the void?
Food & agriculture – Apr 27
Experts may have found what’s bugging the bees
Feeding the world sustainably
Self-sufficiency on a balcony
Duck-Rice
Protecting Creation – Apr 27
Vatican issues new green message for world’s Catholics
Timeline: The frightening future of Earth
E.O.Wilson: Acting now to save life on Earth
The Limits to Lakoff (progressivism vs limits to growth)
My green creds are greener than yours!
So, here’s a little “mole” for anyone who condescends based on one’s hue of green. The contributions of all of us are needed to stabilize patient Earth’s life-support systems.
Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and peak oil
Dr. Ali Samsam Bakhtiari is a retired “senior energy expert,” formerly employed by the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) of Tehran, Iran. During his long career, Bakhtiari held a number of important positions of immense trust and responsibility. I want to bring his important work to the attention of readers.
Religion and Peak Oil: The City of Progress
The roots of the contemporary crisis of industrial society have little to do with the technical issues that occupy so much of today’s Peak Oil discussions.
Transport – Apr 23
Farther, faster? Not anymore (Tainter at work)
Fill ‘er up. But with what? (Making ethanol more efficient)
Where are the lifeboat communities?
Since the limits to growth first came into sight in the Seventies, the creation of “lifeboat communities” to preserve civilization’s legacy through the approaching dark ages has been much discussed. Very little has been done, though, to transform that discussion into action. Crucial lessons can be learned from that failure to act.
