Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The words “holy crap” were pretty much the first ones to my lips this morning, when several people sent me George Monbiot’s latest column…After being so flattered I could die, I suffered the irresistable desire to argue back, and I’m going to…
China winning cyber war, Congress warned
Who killed the blogosphere?
US Journalism: What Must Be Done Now
‘To be a journalist in Russia is suicide’
Peak oil activists from across the nation gathered on a college campus over the Halloween weekend to confront the scary prospects of declining worldwide oil production – and to focus on how they and their communities can cope. “People can find ways to lead happy, fulfilling lives even as this doomed system crumbles all around them,” Russian immigrant writer Dmitry Orlov told the conference.
“Fuel”: A persuasive argument for kicking our addiction to oil
Using Energy Like Pigs
Brazil’s biofuel industry dries up
Arab News: Energy industry headed for a bigger crisis
Green groups ramp up attacks on oil sands
Greenwash: BP and the myth of a world ‘Beyond Petroleum’
IEA WEO 2008 – Fuzzy Focus on Saudi Arabia
Robert Hirsch suggests ‘keeping relatively quiet’ in near-term about peak oil
Pirates seize oil tanker off East Africa coast (security issues)
At Exxon, Making the Case for Oil
NYT suckered by ExxonMobil in puff piece titled ‘Green is for Sissies’
Somali pirates seize tanker carrying oil worth $100m
Transition: gearing up for the great power-down
Fruit and veg boom needed to feed Britain
Strahan: Letter to the Energy Secretary
Homes with no electric shocks from the bills
This year’s fifth Peak Oil and Community Solutions Conference took place at the beginning of November in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. Keynote speaker John Michael Greer reflects on the conference and its implications for the changing peak oil movement.
A new vision of America was presented yesterday in an elaborate parody of “The New York Times by the Yes Men, a group of liberal pranksters. Thousands of paper copies were handed out and a web version is online. Articles include:
“Nationalized Oil To Fund Climate Change Efforts”
“New York Bike Path System Expanded Dramatically”
“Crumbling Infrastructure Brings Opportunities”
“Biofuels Ban Act Signed Into Law, Seeks to Ease Food Shortage”
A climate change conversion
Dmitry Orlov’s “Reinventing Collapse”: Thom Hartmann ‘Independent Thinker’ Review
Ecology and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Post Carbon Newsletter – November 2008
Spot.Us and Fear of Change (YouTube, text)
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