For only one more week as a part of our SummerFest online Film Festival, the award winning documentary film “The Age of Stupid” will be available to watch for free at SnagFilms.com or in embedded form at Energy Bulletin.
And so we have it. At noon today (PST), we saw the predictable collapse of Democrat resolve to address the most serious crisis of our times…We can point
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Over the past six months, the levels of food insecurity and malnutrition in the
Sahel belt of West Africa have increased at alarming rates, putting over 10
million people at risk across the region - particularly in Niger and Chad.
Clay or earthen bricks could help to alleviate the housing shortage in Brazil
because of the lower cost of brick buildings, while an innovative process for
producing what are known as “ecological bricks” can avoid the environmental
harm arising from more usual building materials.
Whether Beijing’s formula of mixed capitalism and state control of key enterprises will prove to be durable over the long run has yet to be seen. What we do know, however, is that a few more years of surging energy consumption will soon be playing havoc with energy prices around the world.
The project of a “green wizardry” based on 70s-era appropriate tech requires a clear understanding of matter as well as energy. With the help of dog slobber, nuclear waste, and several other unmentionable substances, the Archdruid explains.