What to do? Apr 22
Jamais Cascio: Four futures for the earth
Ted Trainer: We can’t go on living like this
Carter had a powerful energy idea
Consume like there’s no tomorrow (critique of “shallow green” Sierra Club, ASES proposals)
Culture & Behavior
Peak oil – Apr 20
Hirsch: Recent forecasts of peak oil production
Swedish study: peak oil by 2018
Bakhtiari: The Century of Roots
“Saudi Arabia has peaked…” [futurology]
Petroleum Institute reaches out, discusses PO
Ig Nore Ad Vice
The relocalization of sport
I’m a jock and a fan; I live and die with my beloved Canucks. But the dangers from climate change and peak oil are so serious that the current pro sport configuration is a luxury we can no longer afford. So when Dr. Suzuki edits the Vancouver Sun on May 5, will we see the relocalization of sport discussed?
Albert Bates, guide for our post-petroleum, globally warmed future
“We have an individual preparedness to be concerned with, and that involves securing a supply of food, water, shelter and other basic needs for yourself and your immediate community. And then we have a larger social preparedness, without which there is no hope for the individual to survive.”
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 17
Cascadia: More than a dream
It’s all about distribution
Peak oil and “Little Miss Sunshine”
Kickstarting communications for a PO world
Welcome to Appropedia
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 15
A manifesto for sustainability in design
PO/climate fiction: A Friend of the Earth
She used to get mad…now she’s getting even: Katharine Hamnett and ethical fashion
Citified suburbs becoming model for Bay Area
Humus, Humility, and Humanure
The Latin root for humus, humility, and humanure are all the same, and translates as “earth.”
Is sustainability a drag?
Only when others see with their own eyes that those seeking sustainability are having enjoyable lives will the switch seem worth making. Just one shot of genuine cheerfulness, humor and even exuberance goes much further than a year’s worth of pious sermons.
Consuming for good – Apr 13
Stephen Colbert vs. No Impact Man
Sharon Astyk: Production, consumption and Amish economics
Greener planet begins under the kitchen sink
British brides say “I do” to green weddings
E-waste win points way
Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84
American writer and humorist Kurt Vonnegut has died at age 84. About energy he wrote, “We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.”
Cycles of sustainability
Conventional wisdom in the peak oil community holds that the arrival of the worldwide production peak will be followed by soaring prices into the indefinite future. Recent history argues this may not be true — and if it isn’t, the challenge to any constructive response to peak oil may be even worse than it already is.
Dysfunction – Apr 9
Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips – Grim vision of the future from the UK military
Stop shopping … or the planet will go pop
Trade war with China?
