Transport – Apr 24
Group touts telecommuting’s green benefits
Not guzzling quite so much gas
Transportation
United States – Apr 24
Pentagon worried about spiking oil prices
Bartlett and 8 GOP colleagues: how to alleviate high gas prices
Barack Obama still takes in oil money
Housing – Apr 22
Home prices drop most in areas with long commute
Kunstler on urban planning
Children of the ‘burbs
The 2020 Summit – will Rudd’s children forgive him?
If Rudd believes that the Summit succeeded in identifying the greatest and most immediate threat to Australia’s future – and provided him with ideas for response – then he is just plain wrong. Distressingly, there are strong hints that the summit topics – and the people who discussed them – were chosen with the aim of avoiding the contentious issues and, in particular, peak oil.
Transport – Apr 21
Is this the end for cheap airline fares?
Air trips slowest in past 20 years
Policies to develop a low emissions transport sector in Australia
UPS avoids left turns to save fuel, reduce emissions
ODAC Newsletter – Apr 18
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Home remedies – Apr 17
Pakistan: Ban wedding meals, lighting?
Bread expert: we need to bake our own
NYT on kitchen gardens, survivor gardens
Change our diet to resolve the food crisis?
Transport – Apr 17
The end of air travel as we know it
Byron King: the automotive energy revolution
Two pedals, three feet: Give bicycles some space
Transport – Apr 15
Homer-Dixon: future of travel and conferences
Oil, environment, lifestyle fuel Asia’s two-wheeler boom
Kunstler on Flagstaff and hydrogen cars
United States – Apr 14
The decline and fall of the American empire of debt
How soaring fuel prices hurt kids
US water pipelines are breaking
Transport – Apr 13
UK road haulage: Crushed on the road to oil armageddon
The new age of the train
Grounded aircraft to be converted into trains
When cheap housing isn’t: how transportation changes the equation
Manufactured foodscape
It has been a truism from the beginning of civilization that cities require stocks of grain, surpluses that can last a year or even two to sustain them through drought or war. In the last two decades, the champions of the globalized trade system have turned that truism on its head and foolishly convinced governments and their leaders that food production and storage can be largely left to the marketplace. All that is changing rather quickly.
