Deep thought - Jan 29
-Welcome to the Plutocracy
-The Neoliberal State
-Parecon & Participatory Society
Archive for Energy
Vision for Sustainability, Resiliency by Post Carbon Institute
What will we do post growth, post cheap energy, post resource abundance and post climate change? The Post Carbon Institute (PCI) convened its first meeting of Fellows this weekend in Berkeley to address these concerns. Many there and elsewhere have argued that these transformational changes are already becoming evident.
Peak oil, prices, and supplies - Jan 28
-Shell forced into oil sands U-turn
-IEA to Meet CFTC, OPEC, Banks on Curbing Speculation
-Clueless about oil prices
-Team of Rivals
A short history of peak oil preparation
Frankly, when I first learned about peak oil, I was a bit freaked out. But after time, a little too much wine, a lot of research, and some productive action, I recovered, and went on to slowly change my attitude, expectations, and lifestyle to accommodate a radically different reality from the one I previously knew.
Web & media - Jan 26
-Past Peak Oil Travelling towards Transition
-Why Transition? Creating a Brighter Future
-The Future of our Food Supply
-’Peak water’ could flush civilisation
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Swingtime
A lot of things started shaking loose last week, and not just in Haiti.
Gram and Me: Community in Time and Space
It is true that people worked long hours in the past - but the pattern of those hours was radically different. Community thrived when more people lived and worked embedded in their community. Now most Americans spend a third of their waking hours in a workplace community, often completely unconnected from the community proximate to their home…Instead of belonging to connected social institutions, if they are members of community organizations, they are probably members of completely different ones.
Solutions & sustainability - Jan 22
-Pick-your-own vegetables to replace flowers in high street
-Permaculture Design is for Disaster Relief, Not Just for Gardens
-Sharon, the bounty!: A review of Astyk’s “Independence Days”
-Oilrigs should be used for homes in areas at risk of flooding, report says
-Growing Home—Urban Agriculture in Chicago
Peak oil notes - Jan 21
A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-China clamps down
UK gets serious about food! - Jan 20
-UK Cross-Government Food Research and Innovation Strategy
-Return to slop bucket as homes face ban on sending food waste to landfill
-It’s time to get back to the land
Copenhagen & Economic Growth - You Can’t Have Both
Before and during Copenhagen (and after, too, we can be sure), politicians and central bankers across the globe have worked tirelessly to return the global economy to a path of growth.
A Freddy and Fredericka Future
In one of my favorite non-science fiction novels, “Freddy and Fredericka“, the future King and Queen of England are dropped naked from an airplane into America as sort of a rite of passage. Though heir to the throne and infinitely wealthy back home, Freddy must use only his wits, skills of persuasion and physical abilities to somehow rise to the unlikely position of the leader of the USA - if he manages this, basically from scratch, he will then have earned the throne of England not only due to hereditary decree but via his own merits.
The Peak Oil Crisis: Gasoline Prices Revisited
It has been 18 months since we all worried very much about high oil prices. Starting in July 2008 gasoline prices took an historic plunge dropping from a U.S. average high of $4.11 a gallon all the way down to $1.70 in January 2009.
ODAC Newsletter - Jan 15
Oil prices began the year with a rally, reaching nearly $84 a barrel as temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere required the heating to be turned up a notch.
Peak oil notes - Jan 14
A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-China’s Economy