“The Unplugged” – a speculative fiction

If you are willing to live as an Unplugger does, your cost to buy out is only around three months of wages for a factory worker, the price of a used car. You never need to “work” again, although there are plenty of life support activities to keep you busy, and a lot of basic research and science to do. Unplugging is not an off-the-shelf solution, it’s a research career!

Solutions & sustainability – Feb 1

The hippies were right all along about happiness /
The end of suburbia – or the beginning of widespread permaculture? /
McKibben on eating local for the winter /
Saving small farmers /
Miguel Altieri on industrial agriculture and agroecology /
Magazine “reap/sow” for young food activists /
Bat or badger? It’s the roadkill recipe book

Peak oil – Jan 28

BBC: Energy gap – crisis for humanity? /
EU energy chief: Europe must cut consumption /
The 4 biggest oil fields in the world are in decline /
Peak oil crisis: Iran /
If you still think energy will not be THE issue in 2006, 2007, 2008, … /
Burnaby city: peak oil /
Oil vulnerability in the Australian city

Peak oil – Jan 16

Petrotheism (animation) /
Peak oil summary for Australia /
Irish Times on unsustainable consumption /
Oil output will depend on investment, not reserves: CGES /
Dave Room (GPM) & Kirstin Miller (eco-cities) on KPFA /
Peak oil advocates shoot themselves in foot