ODAC Newsletter – Oct 9
“A peak of conventional oil production before 2030 appears likely” and “there is a significant risk of a peak in conventional oil production before 2020…”
Renewable Energy
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 9
-What Makes Europe Greener than the U.S.?
-My dream of a zero-waste Goa
-Get Your Community Resilience Toolkit Today!
-From Turbines and Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency
-The Return of the American Prairie
Peak Oil and the Necessity of Transitioning to Regenerative Agriculture
As global energy availability begins to decline over the next several decades, energy-intensive industrial methods of food production will have to be transitioned to regenerative practices that 1) sponsor their own energy, 2) build soils and 3) produce in abundance.
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester Brown
Lester Brown released a new book this week called Plan B 4.0, Mobilization to Save Civilization. The book is for sale, but it can also be downloaded free as a PDF.
I participated in a conference call with Lester Brown, in which he talked about the book, and several of us asked questions. In this post, I will give you at least a brief introduction to the book.
Web & media – Oct 6
-The power of nightmares
-That’s Not the News: Clinton’s “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy”
-Greenwald Film on Afghanistan Destroys the Logic of the War, Leading the New York Times to Whine
-Book Review: ‘Mannahatta’ by Eric Sanderson
-How to Save the News
The genius of low-tech and reusable technology – Oct 6
-‘Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind’
-The Community Cooker Turns Rags to Riches
-Water powered cable train
-The Weekly Geek: micro-hydro power
The Challenging Incongruity of Cheap Oil
Expecting or wanting oil prices to be “low or moderate” is at best incongruous, and at worst naive in the current economic, financial and political context.
Renewables and Efficiency – Oct 5
-Oil and Solar Do Mix
-Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity
-Americans Are Still Buying Gas-Guzzlers, But Here Are 7 Signs That the Market for Green Transport Is Exploding
-Passive Solar Design Overview – Part 5: Distribution, Ventilation, and Cooling
-Google working on “smart” plug-in hybrid charging
-10p to create a solar power sector in UK
-Saving BIG on electricity costs: chest refrigerators
Linking the past with the present: resources, land use, and the collapse of civilizations
The human role in extinction of species and degradation of ecosystems is well documented. Since European settlement in North America, and especially after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, we have witnessed a substantial decline in biological diversity of native taxa and profound changes in assemblages of the remaining species…We have, to the maximum possible extent allowed by our intellect and never-ending desire, consumed the planet.
Jeremy Leggett Interview—Culture Problem in the Oil Industry?
What follows is four questions from an interview recently filmed in London by ASPO-USA’s Dave Bowden and Steve Andrews…“So I worry about peak oil. I worry about climate change. And I need no persuasion of the power of the alternatives to do something about both problems.”
ODAC Newsletter – Oct 2
The this week was largely on a downward trajectory despite tensions over Iran’s nuclear program, until Wednesday, when the US posted lower than anticipated stockpile figures…
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 30
-Can one woman save Africa?
-Africa doesn’t need a green revolution. It needs agroecology
-Human-made Crises ‘Outrunning Our Ability To Deal With Them,’ Scientists Warn
-The Australian town that kicked the bottle
-Energy executives offer ideas on stimulus
