Solutions & sustainability – Apr 20
Alternative hedonism might just lead us to fulfilment /
Here comes the sun – links /
Bill McKibben: The hope of the web
Culture & Behavior
Politics after the Peak
Before the oil age comes to a complete close, let’s hope someone rehabilitates Jimmy Carter as one of the most prescient Presidents ever to hold the office. Congress might even rename an airport for him — just before it is shut down forever.
Sundry items
What can one individual do? It helped to look at the impact of the seemingly, small things we are doing. Take toilet paper.
Satan in the driver’s seat
Mel Gibson’s portrayal of Satan in “The Passion of the Christ” is the one in the driver’s seat of our modern, petroleum-based civilization careening toward the cliff that is Peak Oil while we all look out the window and enjoy the scenery.
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 12
Is it OK … to have a barbecue? /
The vision thing /
Silicon Valley venture capitalist sees opportunity in green tech
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 11
Innovating tourism, for fun, savings and the good of the planet /
Kim Stanley Robinson on the future of adventure
Field of nightmares: A conversation with climate journalist Elizabeth Kolbert
No writing about global warming has had more impact over the past year than a series of closely observed pieces in “The New Yorker” by Elizabeth Kolbert, which have now been collected and expanded into a book. The book ends with these chilling words: “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.”
Peak oil – Apr 6
Historian on M. King Hubbert /
Security: power to the people /
Powering down in rural Alaska /
Kunstler on growth /
Chilean commentary on energy crisis /
The New World Oil Order (links)
Looking through peak oil lenses
Once a person assimilates the idea that peak oil and its consequences are imminent, it radically changes one’s world outlook. Nearly every issue one confronts will be affected by peak oil.
Peak sugar!
Demand for sugar is skyrocketing, because of our need for energy and oil-substitutes. An indirect sign of peak oil, if that was ever needed. And it’s happening really, really quickly…
Environment – Mar 29
Biodiversity meets the bottom line /
Brides shun Orissa’s beach boys /
Science fact or science fiction? /
BuzzFlash interview: Elizabeth Kolbert /
Global warming: Your chance to change the climate
Can We Use Fear as a Motivator for Change?
Rob Hopkins asks the question, to what extent should we use the fear of Peak Oil as a tool to motivate change in people?
