Gender, peak oil and culture: part 2
Differences are important. We ignore dealing with gender and cultural issues at the risk of excluding diverse voices. Instead, we should welcome and seek to enhance their power, thus strengthening Peak Oil work.
Culture & Behavior
Is Our Collective Oil Dependence an Addiction? Your Thoughts Please…
What we can learn from innovative approaches to addiction that might prove to be useful tools for weaning communities off oil?
Gender, Peak Oil, and Culture: Part One
Have you noticed that so far all the major books on Peak Oil are by men? In what way do women influence the Peak Oil movement, and why might we need more feminine perspectives on the issue?
Post-Petroleum Woman
We’ve often heard that Peak Oil will mean the end of the three-thousand mile Caesar salad, but what about the end of the three-thousand mile tampon? In this essay, Carolyn Baker turns her considerable analytical skills to what Peak Oil will mean for women—its spiritual, psychological, and practical ramifications, and offers a few suggestions regarding women’s preparations concerns.
Environment – May 31
Poison ivy getting meaner (with global warming) / Canada agrees to next step in Kyoto / USA Today series on global warming / The Greener Guys (U.S. business & global warming) / You control climate change – or do you? / Ecological handprints: population and the limits of possibility
Solutions & sustainability – May 27
Why people are so bad at predicting what will make them feel good / Bicycle round-up / The next greed revolution (satire of green capitalism)
Environment – May 20
European energy groups manipulate carbon trading for profit / Carbon dioxide is good for you /
Climate change: when policy cycles are circumvented (why the grassroots are weak) / Thank you for emitting / Gore-backed group will spend big to convince Americans climate change is real / Communicating climate change (getting people scared doesn’t work)
After the prosthetic society
Prophecies of the future made on the basis of conventional wisdom just don’t wear very well. When I was growing up in the suburban America of the 1960s, everyone knew that by 2000 we’d have manned bases on the Moon and a Hilton hotel in orbit.
Solutions & sustainability – May 17
Ecology for transformation / The greening of Chicago / A science of securing basic needs through sustainable, ecological methods / What are you buying when you buy organic? / Have you reduced your dependence on cars? / Connecting the dots on high gas prices (urban redesign)
Reason and light
Scientist Sir John Houghton tells Caspar Henderson how he convinced the leaders of 30-40 million evangelical Christians in the US to get serious about climate change.
Want to change the world? Make gas $10 a gallon
What, too far-fetched? Too implausible? Not at all. Citizens would wail. Commuters would scream and stomp and die. But then we would do what we always do. We would evolve. Adapt.
Peak oil: powerdown or collapse?
Those who write about the future from the perspective of peak oil fall along a spectrum ranging from life-as-we-know-it with hydrogen cars to most-have-died-off from oil wars, famine, and disease with the remainder living in scattered tribes on subsistence agriculture.
