Seed Corn Economy
Our intricately structured global economy is stupidly buttressed with one thing. More oil, every year.
Culture & Behavior
Battlefield Earth
The environment is in trouble and the religious right doesn’t care. It’s time to act as if the future depends on us – because it does.
Peak Oil: Sustainability with Teeth (2004 Peak Oil Conference)
We have only a dwindling amount of time to build lifeboats—that is, the needed alternative infrastructure. It has been clear for at least 30 years what characteristics this should have—organic, small-scale, local, convivial, cooperative, slower paced, human-oriented rather than machine-oriented, agrarian, diverse, democratic, culturally rich, and ecologically sustainable.
The Climate Wrecking Ball
I am going to hire one guy with a wrecking ball to demolish my house,
another guy to estimate the damages, and, after declaring bankruptcy,
someone else to not only fix it, but make my house even better. Sounds
crazy, but when you look carefully at all the issues interconnected with
what is termed “climate change,” that’s essentially the scheme our society
is engaged in. Let me explain.
The Rapture Index and the US election
These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the l9th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative millions of people believe to be literally true.
The Godly Must Be Crazy
Abortion. Same-sex marriage. Stem-cell research. U.S. legislators backed by the Christian right vote against these issues with near-perfect consistency. That probably doesn’t surprise you, but this might: Those same legislators are equally united and unswerving in their opposition to environmental protection.
Peak Oil? Include Me Out – Thoughts from a Once-Burned Y2K Activist
On December 31, 1999 when the clocks ticked for the last time in the old year and then proceeded to quite happily keep ticking their chronological way into the new, hundreds of millions of people around the world rejoiced as they welcomed the 21st millennium. At the same time, thousands of people looked at their television sets and the still-glowing lights of their homes and cities, and immediately realized that they now looked like idiots.
Philippines cites urgency to cut dependency on foreign oil
The Philippine presidential palace Wednesday said it is imperative to cut the Philippine dependency on oil to lessen impacts of oil price hikes on citizen’s lives.
Nigerian Oil Delta Rebels Say ‘War’ Starts Oct 1
Nigerian rebels fighting for sovereignty of the oil-producing Niger delta told oil companies in the world’s seventh largest exporter to shut production before they begin an “all-out war” on Oct. 1.
Bottomline Decisions: Concerns about reliable supply will always trump the call for cleaner energy
Securing supply tops the energy-policy agenda. That is the message coming loud and clear from more than 60 energy-industry leaders, including big-company CEOs and senior government officials, recently surveyed by the World Economic Forum…. History shows that policymakers will put price and supply before social and environmental concerns.
Tomorrow, the Festival
Caryl Johnston is writing a semi-humorous novel about the Oil Crash. Here is Chapter Ten.
Prius demand heats prices on eBay
Toyota’s hybrid sedan selling for well over sticker price on Internet auction site.
