Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The state of our physical world exerts a kind of hidden gravitational pull on the important issues of the day. And yet, to listen to the rhetoric of the most recent election campaign, you would conclude that the ecological underpinnings of our civilization are in such good condition that they require virtually no attention.
A true survivalist hopes deep in their heart that the good life never ends for anybody. They just know that trouble sometimes does happen, and want to be as well situated as they can be if bad things do come to be.
One of the unmentionable facts of today’s politics is that the relative prosperity of the industrial nations depends on the impoverishment of the rest of the world. Lacking a willingness to deal with this reality, proposals for political solutions to peak oil and other aspects of our current predicament fall short.
Rob Hopkin’s dissertation is, according to Richard Heinberg, “an extremely valuable resource for community leaders and other policy makers, all of whom must make the energy transition their first priority in the years ahead.”
The generation of activists who fought for civil rights, against an unpopular war, and started the environmental movement is poised for one last hurrah, one more attempt to cure the ills of American society. They’re older now, and perhaps a little wiser. They’re settled into their communities, some of them already retired. And they’re scared as hell about the lives facing their children and grandchildren once the oil runs out.
Ghawar: Water and oil don’t mix /
Keep your eye on non-opec production /
The Y2K fallacy /
Major problems Of surviving peak oil
Everything will relocalize as our easy-motoring way of life persistently constricts after Peak Oil, including how we do church. What will the Post-Carbon Church look like?
The Inuit and the cure for affluence
Albert Bartlett and the 300 million
The next 100 million and the face of America
An elephant crackup?
Worldwatch’s Gardner says shift in values needed to achieve sustainability
God & the environment
Moyers: “Is God Green?”
Fundamentalist Christians are mounting an effort to end the use of all contraceptives while ecologists warn that we are headed for disaster as Earth’s life support systems crack under the weight of our numbers.
The California Legislature must revise the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to include a specific section on energy, including project energy needs by resource type.
How do our metaphors for Peak Oil direct our thought about its severity? This essay examines this question and others that relate to Peak Oil preparations and the debate within the peaknik community about how bad it might get.
