Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Japan: The slow life – Tune in, drop out, grow rice /
18 months in a retro-Amish-Mennonite community (Eric Brende interview) /
Oops, we helped ruin the planet:
Guide owners join to discourage ‘casual flying’ /
All the organic broccoli in the world won’t be enough to save the planet /
I’m lovin’ it: Falling sales force closure of 25 UK McDonald’s branches
We all know the damage aviation does, but the government and the airlines want to turn the country into Airstrip One… there is no means of sustaining long-distance, high-speed travel.
Novelist and screenwriter Michael Ventura envisions how we will live after peak oil in a series of columns that appeared in the Austin Chronicle.
Enforced relocalization is a likely prospect during energy descent. Preparing for conflict during relocalization deserves more attention.
Following a severe reduction in oil supplies and the implosion of the Irish development bubble, there will be a wide range of distress sale, stranded assets up for grabs at knock down prices.
Environmentalist David Orr on peak oil, climate change and our response to them /
Heinberg and experts debate fall in oil production /
Beyond Peak Oil scenario competition /
Matt Simmons speech /
Author William Clark speaks on Washington-Teheran tensions
Whipple: The Hirsch Report — one year later /
Writer Michael Ventura on Things to Come /
The earth’s half empty oil tank (visualizing peak oil) /
Looking at energy supply in terms of Cubic Miles of Oil (CMOs)
If you are willing to live as an Unplugger does, your cost to buy out is only around three months of wages for a factory worker, the price of a used car. You never need to “work” again, although there are plenty of life support activities to keep you busy, and a lot of basic research and science to do. Unplugging is not an off-the-shelf solution, it’s a research career!
Xerox PARC takes on clean, green technology /
Frillmann of Green Guerillas, community-garden guru /
SF group “Compact” vows not to buy anything new in 2006 /
Termites may be allies in energy crisis /
UK baby shortage
As President Bush calls on Americans to break their addiction to oil and increase energy efficiency in the face of soaring prices, perhaps no people serve as better role models than the energy-miser Japanese.
It is an unseasonably warm day, in a small town just south of Portland. A grove of beachfront orange trees planted in 2010 fill the air with their fragrant bouquet. But today a new scent is on the wind: blubber. The first whale juicing plant on the West Coast has opened, capable of producing up to 100 barrels of oil a day.
Will global warming create any winners? /
Grist series on poverty and the environment /
The greenhouse mafia /
Climate ‘makes oil profit vanish’ /
Capturing pig power /
Eau, no: Bottled water is killing the planet
