Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Thanks to Energy Bulletin readers who responded to earlier essays on gender, Peak Oil and culture. Responses came from Singapore, London, Sydney, and Canada, as well as from both American coasts, the Southwest and the Midwest.
I’ve been covering the oil industry for a long time. There is a new breed of economists who are now debating the consequences of a world with reduced petroleum supplies. They are asking, “Why can’t we start preparing for the time when we probably won’t have it?”
The importance of social capital / Why sustainability is important to you / New green/labor alliance brings Sierra Club and Steelworkers together / Le Monde profile of Jerome a Paris / Bryant Terry, food-justice activist
What might a Geo-Green third party platform look like? Its centerpiece would be a $1 a gallon gasoline tax, called “The Patriot Tax,” which would be phased in over a year.
Final part of the Energize America presentation at the recent YearlyKos conference. This grassroots campaign for a progressive energy policy was initiated by members of the Daily Kos website.
Retired nuclear physicist discovers peak oil / Companies embracing sustainability / Rural Kenya women replace wood fires with solar cookers /
Father of energy efficiency to get Fermi Award / Tour of the Maple Ridge wind farm /
Message board activism: the blogosphere’s mext level / Trolling for dollars (Netvocates)
We now have a devious layer of corporate-financed, pseudo-science spread all over everything like sticky jam. So much so that when we see something clean and pure without that sticky confusing mess, we think that something is missing.
A slide presentation describing the main goals of Energize America. This grassroots campaign for a progressive energy policy was initiated by members of the Daily Kos website.
BREAKING: Sheriff’s deputies evicting South Central farmers now / Sustainable architecture can reduce CO2 /
Food, energy woes can change people’s ideas of community / Organizing to break US oil addition – July Indiana conference /
5 alternatives to an oil-based economy
How Energize America came to life, and the unique caracteristics of DailyKos that made that netroots-based drafting process possible and give it its qualities of transparency, democracy and the ability to vet information.
Darley: Relocalization for architects and developers /
Preparation for the future (thoughts For 30-somethings) /
A visit to the Eden project … Wow / Sustainable architecture can reduce CO2 / Is the battle for South Central Farm near a close? / HP cuts back on telecommuting / TIME: Lure of the 100-mile diet /
Gathering highlights power of the blog
Some of America’s leading climate scientists claim to BBC’s Panorama that they have been censored and gagged by the U.S. administration
