Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
ASPO’s Dave Cohen: Should we save General Motors?
Gar Lipow: What stops us from acting more boldly on economic and environmental policy
Throwing capitalism into the dustbin of history
Financal Times series on The Future of Capitalism
Surviving the Great Collapse
Economy to slow U.S. nuclear power growth: NRC head
M.K. Hubbert’s early take on nuclear energy
How much coal remains?
Science Magazine on peak coal
The Oil Drum demographic/opinion survey results
Australia radio interview with Dmitry Orlov
Recession has taken toll on alternative energy
Canals and rivers to lead micro-hydropower revolution
Locavolts or Super Grids? Where to Source Clean Energy?
Warnings Grow Louder About Global Data Center Power Crisis
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Friedman calls for carbon tax to spark change
Kunstler: Forget about “recovery”
George Will: Americans are overfed but undernourished
Steven Chu, United States Secretary of Energy, on Charlie Rose
What Thomas Friedman says, right or wrong, is important, and so I was curious to hear his thinking on energy, globalization, and climate change—particularly in the context of the economic collapse.
Dealing with collapse proactively is getting all the more urgent, and that includes realizing that the talking heads have been hopelessly invested in a broken system that was painful and wrong from the get-go. Fortunately, one of them must have had a revelation or had the equivalent of some psychedelic trip. Tom Friedman of the New York Times has woken up.
How to Make Cap-and-Trade Into a Bad Joke
Tough odds facing bill to impose carbon tax
Moderate Dems present challenge for renewable energy plan
Former CIA director Woolsey makes the case for a feed-in tariff
Solar power from deserts
Charmaine Watts at REFIT-NZ talks about the New Zealand FIT campaign
US ethanol producers urge Obama to up ethanol content of motor fuels
Monbiot: Biofuels do far more harm than good
International Biochar Initiative online
Our safety is at risk when governments fail to respond effectively to changing heat supplies and prices, according to Larry Hughes, the lead author of two new reports released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in Nova Scotia.
