By Murray Grimwood, Resilience.org
This book – and others it references, particularly Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems’ - should be a standard read for university students, but I suspect it will only be read by those who are already-there, or at least already well-on-the-way.
By Nate Hagens, Arthur E. Berman, The Great Simplification
On this episode, petroleum geologist Arthur Berman returns to unpack the development and drawbacks of ‘peak oil’.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Let the billionaires go off to their fitting ends. Maybe we can think more clearly without all the noise and stress they generate.
By Nate Hagens, Simon Michaux, The Great Simplification
On this episode, mining and geology expert Simon Michaux returns to give a preliminary framework for responses to the coming energy and material constraints described in the previous episode.
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
Sure, Malthus missed predicting this enormous surge in human population, not factoring in stored fossil energy. That doesn’t mean we should declare human population a mystery beyond our grasp and refrain from any attempt to understand its trajectory and future.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilence.org
Colin Campbell, the petroleum geologist who coined the term “peak oil,” has died. He was a co-founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) in 2000 and the author of many articles and books on petroleum geology and oil depletion.
By Chris Rhodes, Energy Balance
The time is now or never. Cooperation is fundamental to our success, and only by uniting as a human family, on all levels from local to global, can we hope to achieve an equitable and concordant future on our Mother Planet.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Re-localize, reduce, repair, and reuse. Build resilience. Become more independent of the monetary economy in any neighborly ways you can.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
But overall this is a mess of a show with little discernible connection to the novel on which it’s supposedly based, and nothing substantive to say about the current world energy situation.
By Laura Calderón de la Barca, Xiye Bastida , DeSmog Blog
That is why they are called non-renewable resources, for example. Because Mother Earth doesn’t have the ability to renew those resources at the same speed at which we’re taking them.
By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilence.org
Improve your energy literacy with stories about pushing motor vehicles, enduring blackouts, and growing $10 tomatoes, and take a tour of history that visits ancient China, industrializing Britain, the Great Depression, the Cold War, and the Green Revolution.
By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification
Why is the financial community so complacent about peak oil and the relationship between increasing energy scale and growth? Can we make predictions about the future by looking back at history?