Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Too many visions of the future treat today’s particular form of technological society as the only form there is. A glance at one of today’s many technological subcultures shows that other alternatives exist — and some may be much better suited than our present form to the needs of a postpeak world.
Summary of the peak oil story at June 2008. Major themes:
– The US oil story
– The world oil story
– Five myths
Six Degrees, but no PhD (science writing by non-scientists)
Environmental stories you can localize: climate change, food crisis, water pollution
The Internet and its discontents
Energy Kid’s Page from the EIA
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air (online book)
Heavyweight physics prof weighs into climate/energy scrap
Energy use turning point? (Economist editor)
Powering the Planet: CNBC special report
Izzy Stone, Patron Saint of Bloggers
The Ups and Downs of Giving a Peak Oil Presentation
Broadcast Legend Bill Moyers on Media Reform
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
The Associated Press, Bloggers, Boycotts, and Copyright Issues
Blogger arrests hit record high
ABC Science: The price of peak fuel
Rounding up the bad guys (oil price rises)
Kjell Aleklett: Coca-Cola and gasoline, the Coke index
Americans are easily misled about domestic “supply-side” solutions to rising oil prices and dwindling global exports. Their confusion is understandable. Oil company executives like Shell’s John Hofmeister have called for opening up now restricted areas in Alaska or on the outer continental shelves, implying that salvation is only a few oil wells away.
Yale Environment 360, a new online magazine dedicated to covering the global environment, is launching today at http://e360.yale.edu. Edited by Roger Cohn, the former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon magazines, Yale Environment 360 aims to become one of the leading Web sites for commentary and reporting on the crucial environmental issues of the day.
ASPO-USA’s fourth annual “Dialogue with the Experts,” a high-level conference to discuss impacts of and responses to a peak in world oil production.
The conference begins with an introduction by U.S. Congressional Peak Oil Caucus member Vern Ehlers and a keynote by Dr. David Goodstein, author of Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil.
Alex Steffen: The real green heretics
Stratfor: Geopolitics of $130 oil
The final act of the Age of Oil has begun
The Carbon Age: the history of carbon
If the end of industrial society proves to be a slow decline rather than a sudden catastrophe, we stand to lose more of today’s cultural heritage and knowledge base, not less. What can be done in the face of so challenging a future?
