Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Many inconvenient questions come tumbling out of the assertion that the Iraq War is about oil. …The simple fact is that if the Iraq War is really about oil (and I believe that it is), then this means that the current official story, namely, that a smooth, seamless transition to a post-oil economy is underway, is something that even the [Bush] administration itself does not believe.
Innovative program helps residents protect their water
Environmentalism with a social conscience
Taking the tasty approach
Green computing update
Foreshocks ripple through the commodity and credit markets, the once-optimistic IEA warns of an energy crunch, and a famous conservative pundit raises a white flag: business as usual, or signs of imminent crisis? The Archdruid Report looks at current news stories.
Is it realistic for peak oilers to look to the New Deal as a model of how the US political system could respond to the crisis? A historian of the New Deal is afraid not.
Whereas terrorism poses no fundamental threat to the functioning of our society, energy decline does because it can degrade non-medical and institutional determinants of health such as education, employment, housing, nutrition, transportation, and sanitation.
An increasingly popular parlor game among peak oil activists is to see who can serve up the most shocking morsel of peak oil news at any one sitting. There are now plenty of morsels to choose from on an almost daily basis.
Gov’t cannot halt oil incentives, judge rules
A break in Texas’s oil decline
Exxon’s crude nightmare
Is drilling method making people ill?
The world’s expected carrying capacity in a post industrial agrarian society
Saving the ecosystems of Middle Earth
John Michael Greer: the politics of transition
Texas senator protects oil company tax breaks by blocking House-Senate energy conference
Saudi Arabia holds key to oil and dollar link
Pace of coal-power boom slackens
Getting more power out of using less
Why Illinois should host DOE’s FutureGen project
Sustainable South Bronx: need for green collar jobs to reduce poverty
Government money short to help poor pay heating bills
Energy traders avoid scrutiny
Montana and Kansas take on Big Coal
US hopes for coal gasification ride on one project
Science’s worst enemy: corporate funding
The social web ain’t rocket science
Calendar of environmental conferences and events
Will increased income and wealth disparity lead to generational class war?
Why is Vancouver eating its young?
The heat or eat dilemma
Living paycheck to paycheck gets harder
