Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
UK church leaders have backed a new report, entitled Faith and Power, that urges an energy strategy informed by Christian principles of wise stewardship, peacemaking, justice, love for neighbours and moderation in consumption.
Michael Pollan: The modern hunter-gatherer /
California makes itself the most efficient place in North America /
Home builders turning green /
Farm goes for economic, ecological diversity /
US, African scientists seek biotech answer to hunger (sorghum)
Sea rise could be ‘catastrophic’ /
Global warming will change Pacific Northwest /
The pollution gap /
Time reporter Eugene Linden on climate change /
A new ethics needed to save life on Earth /
Seattle to Kyoto: You can’t get there by car
The peak oil investor who succeeds at making money, while failing to grasp the gravity of our situation, may find that his or her new fortune means nothing to a community that has been forced by circumstances to move quickly beyond a world governed by Wall Street wizards and international finance.
Invest now in goods which will decrease energy dependency but also invest in an unwritten future through a diversity of assets which will maintain purchasing power. If anything is certain, it is that money will still exist on the other side of Hubbert’s Peak and the various goods and services that it can purchase.
Survey: 3/4 Americans fault federal leadership, back state & local efforts /
Poll: Most Americans fear vulnerability of oil /
Pew report: Both Reds and Blues go green on energy /
Pew Poll: Curing an oil addiction
Rep. Bartlett on CNN’s “Situation Room” at ~4:30pm ET /
Peak oil conference in Maryland May 7-9 /
do no harm (we have a cultural problem, not a technical one) /
Peak oil conference for New York City: April 27-29
Lundberg: Where do we go from here? /
Pickens sees $5 per gallon gasoline worldwide
This is hospital food? /
In Berkeley, lunch is a learning experience /
Why the nation’s largest community garden must become a Wal-Mart warehouse /
Is it even possible to withdraw from the marketplace? /
“Just a little effort” — A new approach to environmentalism spreads across Japan
Continuity of family for sustainable culture /
Green technology to make sewage a less dirty word /
Efforts in Japanese society and business to slow down /
Web site builds powerful storehouse of research /
Bio-diesel an alternative way of life in Berkeley
What I learned from the way my client talked about shopping was that in order to continue to be invited to this party of American abundance, one had to buy things continually. …What my client needed was an invitation to a new kind of party. A party where frugality and make-do creativity was the currency of the realm.
When I first read James Howard Kunstler’s Rolling Stone excerpt last year, I knew I needed to know more about peak oil. Thousands of pages later I have a far more nuanced picture, and am now back at college teaching a course on peak oil. (Syllabus included)
Simmons:
What a difference 20 years make in crude oil prices (“What peak oil really means”) /
Natural gas demand destruction /
December the peak? /
ASPO-USA response to ExxonMobil peak oil advertising /
Dr. Robert L. Hirsch joins ASPO-USA advisory board /
Everybody’s an expert: putting predictions to the test
