Energy – Dec 28
IEA report rings alarm bells for energy security
Discussion: energy crisis in the Urals
At war with Russia?
New US fuel ratings set double standard
Avatars consume as much power as Brazilians
Transportation
Resolutions for a Post-Peak New Year
Ten New Year’s resolutions to help get ready for a world on the far side of Hubbert’s peak, focusing on practical steps most people can accomplish in their lives right now.
Housing & urban design – Dec 24
Rail-Volution: Building livable communities with transit
The collective costs of suburban sprawl
“It’s a Wonderful Life” – not so wonderful
The way we will live: houses of the future
Rail – Dec 24
Rail boom hits environmental, NIMBY snags
North Coast Railroad Authority
Rail-Volution
Peak oil – Dec 24
McKibben in Sierra Club: Energizing America
TOD: A primer on reserve growth
How to address contrarian arguments: “We have huge reserves”
Rail-Volution on peak oil
Peak food and population overshoot
We don’t know Jack
Hydrogen – Dec 24
Why a hydrogen economy doesn’t make sense
What’s wrong with hydrogen
Lovins: 20 hydrogen myths
UK energy policy – Dec 24
Army saves by topping up tanks with chip oil
UK govt report: “The Energy Challenge”
Carbon ‘credit card’ considered
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 21
New German community models car-free living
Software & community in the early 21st century
Permaculture for the inner landscape
A natural builder creates an ecovillage
Suburban renewal – one backyard at a time
Autos – Dec 21
The Highwaymen – privatization of the roads
U.S. Interstate: A golden opportunity missed
Detroit: Misguided assault on autos won’t solve energy crisis
Ford’s new Super Duty trucks
The auto efficiency wedge
Air – Dec 21
EU tackles aircraft CO2 emissions (kind of)
Monbiot: Ministers know emissions trading won’t work
Aviation and oil depletion
Airlines toss enough cans each year to build fleet of airliners
Cuba’s strange path
Cuba has become the poster child for a transition away from an agricultural economy based on fossil fuel inputs and for a society focused on self-sufficiency. Strangely, it may owe much of its success in this regard to its relative backwardness and its isolation from the world community.
The peak oil crisis: the Council of Governments
The report [for the Washington D.C. area] acknowledges and even describes in much detail that there is a debate going on about peak oil. Unfortunately when the authors start talking about production starting to peak 20 years from now the sense of urgency is somehow lost.
