Solutions & sustainability – May 10
Jeff Vail: valuing elegance /
Resurgence issue on sustainability /
CSIRO sustainability newsletter #58 /
Fossil-free landscaping / Cassandra without portfolio: Maine’s Edward Myers
Culture & Behavior
Environment – May 10
James Hansen: Can we still avoid climate change? / Nobel Prize winner on global warming / Grist interviews accidental movie star Al Gore
Writers pen scenarios for peak oil
Beyond Peak wanted to see if there was anybody who was optimistic about Peak Oil, since most projected scenarios predict (quite reasonably) doom and gloom. Well, some people are optimistic, and can actually present step-by-step reasons for that optimism.
Community survival during the coming energy decline
Imagine community life in a Peak Oil world. Are ecovillages, sustainable communities, and organized eco-neighborhoods prepared?
Peak oil discomforts – losing hot water, computer, car, electricity…
My hot water heater recently sprang a leak. So I dumped it. Inconvenient, but not a big deal. But what will happen when breakdowns are not so repairable or replaceable?
Solutions & sustainability – May 5
Rod Dreher’s political hybrid: the all-natural, whole-grain conservative /
UK: ‘Clear lead needed’ on green life /
Zero emissions, village-style car-free neighbourhoods – in China /
Derrick Jensen: Beyond hope /
Ex-mayor of LA:
Leave the gas at the pump and pedal away
How to stay young – post-carbon style
Adapting a popular inspirational message for the post-carbon era.
Riding a bicycle can save the world
I left [the talk] convinced that, if I would only drop my car keys in the toilet and flush, a revolution would sweep the globe.
Stop the fossil foolishness
Gas prices are on the rise again and news analysts are kicking it around, wondering who is being ripped off this time. But …unlike other gas shortages, this one is the real thing, or at least the beginning of the real thing: production has peaked and the era of cheap oil is about to end. [Analysis of political responses to rising gas prices.]
The illusion of autonomy in the fossil fuel age
We get what we want from our energy slaves, it seems, without having to deal with real people in any way remotely approaching the intimate way those living with or without slavery in the pre-fossil fuel age had to.
Scientist Jerry Mahlman: straight talk on climate change.
There’s a colossal misperception that if you bike to work once a week and recycle your garbage, then global warming will be fixed up. The problem is that, even if everyone did that, the attempt to stop global warming would fail by a factor of, oh, roughly of 100.
Newsday editorial on peak oil
Brace for $100-a-barrel oil – and the sacrifices required to put in place a national policy for energy alternatives. The world is nowhere near running out of oil soon. But there is a general agreement that it’s close to reaching peak oil production.
