Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
With gas prices rising and peak oil here at the same time that we start to feel global warming’s first effects, it will be crucial to the world’s future that Americans, who use the most energy and create the most pollution, make smart decisions about energy.
Last month, oil “peaksters” seemed to break out of their policy doldrums when they journeyed to the banks of the Potomac for what may have been their first mainstream conference in the nation’s capital.
I was so stimulated to be among people who had chosen to take a course in environmental leadership that I found myself being outraged and confrontational when they ran contrary to my expectations. I succumbed to being “greener than thou”.
Simmons’ alarm over the lack of a “Plan B” to replace our status-quo petroleum dependence has lately turned him into something more like an Ecotopian than a soldier for nonstop industrialization of the entire world.
U.S. panel backs data on global warming / Moms, guilt, and climate catastrophe / Reduce aviation’s expansion or give up on tackling climate change / Norway sees N.Sea as CO2 dump, but legal hurdles /
US: Surge of population in the exurbs continues /
Getting to the [climate change] holdouts
A trip to the progressive city reveals why its citizens are leading the world in awareness of Peak Oil issues.
Living in expectation of this civilization’s collapse, which I do, can be isolating. It’s like having historical-epochal halitosis. You don’t get invited back to dinner parties after trying to engage people on the topic of our imminent decline and fall.
Thanks to Energy Bulletin readers who responded to earlier essays on gender, Peak Oil and culture. Responses came from Singapore, London, Sydney, and Canada, as well as from both American coasts, the Southwest and the Midwest.
The importance of social capital / Why sustainability is important to you / New green/labor alliance brings Sierra Club and Steelworkers together / Le Monde profile of Jerome a Paris / Bryant Terry, food-justice activist
What can we learn from innovative approaches to addiction that might prove to be useful tools for weaning communities off oil? Reader feedback and further thoughts.
Peak Oil and Climate Change are unprecedented global challenges. Four energy transition scenarios are presented to help guide dialogue and decision making: Lean Economy, Collapse, Techno-Markets, Burnout.
Online papers about energy and the environment by Odum, Tainter and many others. Proceedings of the Second Biennial International Workshop “Advances in Energy Studies” (Italy 2000).
