Mexico and the first peak oil mass migration
The issue of immigration and border security is already a thorny one, but it will likely become even more confused as oil depletion proceeds in Mexico.
Culture & Behavior
70s oil crisis was a ‘perfect storm’ for U.S.
“What does the energy crisis teach us? That it’s hard for meaningful change when few think there is a problem,” MIT author Meg Jacobs said. The challenge today, as much as it was then, is to “create a market and momentum for new ways of thinking about energy.”
Solutions & sustainability – March 28
Strategic consumption: Changing the world with what you buy
Sustaining change from the middle ground
APPLE leader inspires others to help planet
Organic gardens vs. chem-fed lawns
Less carbon, more community
The transition to renewable energy
Faustus and the monkey trap
What makes the crisis of industrial society so challenging to cope with is the way it unfolds out of the very strategies that worked so well in other contexts. Current attempts to replace oil with ethanol — in effect, pouring our food supply into our gas tanks — point to an urgent need to reconsider some of our most basic assumptions about what exactly the problem is.
Deep economy: Localism, innovation and knowing what’s what
The steps Bill [McKibben proposes] — local food and local energy — are generally good ones, but they alone are not going to get us anywhere close to one planet living. For that, we need truly radical change, delivered through widespread innovation and systemic redesign, and going far beyond the sorts of impacts we can create though individual consumer actions.
Population – March 25
Starting from where you are – Sharon Astyk on having four children
The Nation: Europeans do it better
Environmental discourse and the paradox of the open society
How does one fight back without destroying the very principles of openness that make it possible to draw on the talents of all while safeguarding freedom of expression?
Peak oil thriller hits German best-seller list
Popular German novelist Andreas Eschbach has written a 750-page novel that covers many of the themes discussed in the peak oil community.
McKibben – Happiness and the deep economy
Bill McKibben has been championing the themes of global warming, peak oil and sustainability for years. In his recently released book, Deep Economy, he focuses on relocalization and a rethinking of our conception of happiness.
Not the end of the world
Much of what is required to prevent [disaster] is simply coming to terms with the notion that a radical change in your way of life is not the same thing as the end of the world.
Food & agriculture – Mar 18
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Shocking Sugar
Farming in the city
Riot police battle farmers over new economic zones
Population – March 17
Europeans do it better: learning to live with population decline
World’s population of elderly exploding
World population may reach 9.2 billion by 2050
