Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It took a near-ice experience and tomorrow’s potential challenge of an early, icy, 11-mile trip to get me to do a simple thing with immediate rewards like change out my bike tires. What, then, does it take to get people to make much bigger changes in their lives to prepare for a world with less abundant energy?
I am human, I’m American, and I’m an addict…
The Tata Nano strikes back – Does Jeavons’ Paradox apply to productivity, too?
Jeffersonian agrarianism and the question of slavery
A material world
On Monbiot’s population comments
Next car debate: total miles driven
Ex-Shell chair: EU ‘should ban inefficient cars’
Danger in the bike lane
What’s so funny about a hybrid howitzer?
Airbus A380 completes alternative fuel test flight
Dmitry Orlov on living aboard a boat
Porous streets work – even in rainy Oregon
12 things that shaped green building
Can airlines find a cleaner way to fly?
NHL can’t really go green without axing jet fuel
New Zealand’s carbon neutral airport
UK flight tax to hit long-haul and heavy planes
If the concept of peak oil proves anything, it’s that this most “utilitarian” civilization in history is paradoxically one of the most blind. How can we, who are so practical and scientific, have failed to notice that we were careening toward the edge of this cliff? And is it possible that our conditioned insensitivity to so-called “aesthetic” concerns is, in fact, a big part of the problem?
Within the next ten years the size, shape, efficiency, fuel and numbers of private automobiles is going to undergo a radical change. The nine million gallons of gasoline we currently use in the U.S. each day simply will not be available in the quantities desired at any price.
Move it, you just might get younger
California to probe development of ‘green’ chemicals
From buses to blogs, a pathological individualism is poisoning public life
Dr Jim Buckee has just retired as President and CEO of Talisman Energy, a major independent Canadian oil company with a market capitalisation of $25-billion. On the phone from Perth, Dr Buckee told me that ‘peak oil’ was now either here, or very close.
Abu Dhabi’s zero-carbon ‘ecotopia’
Berkeley envisions ambitious energy plan
Address climate change through land use
Making the transition
Many environmentalists and so-called “progressives” cling to dangerously naive beliefs about how to solve America’s liquid fuels problem.
