Tag: Peak Oil
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Does Peak Helium Mean We Should Stop With The Big Balloons Already?
We are often called wet blanket party poopers when it comes to holiday traditions, but maybe we are right.
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Is The Post-Fossil Fuel Economy Already Emerging?
Growing bike sales, a boom in sharing, and an interest in growing your own food are ust some of the signs that we could be moving beyond our current energy paradigm. Add your own to the list.
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Did Peak Oil Doomers Fixate On a False Scenario?
The problem is not too little oil, says a new IEA report, it's too much oil. And it illustrates why activists should not presume to know the future.
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Richard Heinberg's Tiny Fibonacci Studio
Author, activist and post-carbon rabble rouser Richard Heinberg is also a dabbler in green building. Take a tour of his tiny hand-built backyard studio.
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Can a Bike-Powered Blender Really Change the World?
Bike-powered devices often feel like hippy gimmicks. Yet for some communities, they offer an important glimpse of more resilient technology.
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Neither Pessimism Nor Optimism Is Relevant for Greens, But Determination Is
Futurist Guy Dauncey acknowledges that the stakes are high and the challenges are enormous. Yet defeatism is not an option.
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Is Peak Oil Really a Thing of the Past?
George Monbiot claims that peak oil is no longer a major concern. Is he right?
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Why There's No New Coal When Reserves Run Out & How That Could Help Biofuels
New research rewrites our understanding of why no new coal deposits develop -- but offers hope for post-coal energy solutions.
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One Graphic Even a Republican SuperPAC Ad Will Have a Hard Time Spinning
Value of Fossil Fuel Exports By Fuel, 1949-2010
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Panic Buying of Fuel Grips UK Motorists
Panic by UK motorists causes fuel supplies to run dry, all because of a few careless words from the Prime Minister.
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Sustainability Lessons from the Great Depression
A pioneer of peak oil community action sits down to talk with her mother about a previous crisis and how she survived it.
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How an Abandoned Market Garden Was Occupied (Video)
A village that was threatened by the expansion of Heathrow Airport in London became home to a squatted community garden. Here's how it happened.
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POSTPONED: Building Resilient Communities: Q&A With Transition Movement Founder Rob Hopkins
The Transition Movement - a community-centered response to peak oil and climate change - has been described as "the biggest urban brainwave of the century." Join us to chat with its founder.
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When Governments and Activists Say "Resilience", They Do Not Mean the Same Thing
Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins sets out what Resilience 2.0 might look like.
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Energy News Recap: Hurricanes Versus Wind Farms; Nuclear Power & Childhood Leukemia; More
Beyond the headline, a really great overview of how globalization may well be entirely reshaped by energy constraints, for the betterment of local economies in places where manufacturing has been outsourced for years.
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Contest Time! The Crisis of Civilization Remix Challenge
The Crisis of Civilization explores our modern cultural crises by sampling archive film footage from PSAs. Now the makers are asking budding film makers to have a go themselves.
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Transition Town to Plant 60,000 Trees
A community group plans massive tree planting effort to reforest one of Europe's least wooded areas.
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Have Fossil Fuels Become the Enemy of Creativity?
When we'd rather drive 30 minutes for takeout than cook dinner, we're in some serious trouble.
