Solutions & sustainability – September 8

Love, Schmove – Just tell me how to build community with the guy who mows his lawn in his speedo!
Oil prices, technology, and the cost of ignorance
Meet the greenshifters
It never hurts to be prepared for Armageddon: Be to go-to gal
Is it better to lease, hire or borrow than to buy?

The energy secret – understanding what drives the 21st century and why peak oil really matters

There are at least two invisible things that tend to be ferociously difficult to understand. One is relations among humans and the other is energy. Especially when the former want more of the latter. And for some reason, understandable perhaps but also unfortunate, we are mostly loathe to try to comprehend where our energy comes from. [Excepts]

Peak oil notes: Gustav and prices

As it became apparent that hurricane Gustav would cause minimal damage to the Gulf oil infrastructure and that any lost production would be made up from emergency stocks, oil prices began to drop and continued dropping all week. … [However] Gulf and east coast gasoline supplies are getting very close to the level at which shortages could begin.