Tag: Peak Oil
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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.
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Energy News Recap: China May Soon Burn Half of All World's Coal, SuperFracking, Vestas Closing Wind Turbine Plants, More
Lots of energy news today; unfortunately, apart from the notion that peak oil is actually an opportunity for massive positive societal and environmental change which we'll get to in a few words, it's not really good news.
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Green Business is Good. Resilient Business is Better.
Green business tends to focus on cutting carbon in the cheapest way possible. But what good will that do if our system starts unravelling?
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Resilience Favors Simplicity. But That Doesn't Have to Mean Crunchiness.
Creating resilient systems often means embracing simple, durable solutions. But that doesn't mean they have to be inelegant or basic.
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Why Free Energy Would Be a Very, Very Bad Thing
A new film claims free, unlimited energy is within our grasp, but is being kept secret by oil companies. Transition movement founder Rob Hopkins explains why we'd better hope that's a lie.
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Energy News Recap: 2.4 GW Seawater Pumped Hydro Project; China Ups Wind Power Target to 1000 GW
Plus... a former IEAer says oil to decline shortly after 2015 and Chevron smacked (again) by a judge. Here's what we've just been scanning in energy news.
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A Crisis of Civilization? Live Chat with Security Analyst Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. Thursday, January 12th. 3e.
What does climate change and peak oil have to do with terrorism and the economic crisis? Everything, says Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. Join us to discuss why.
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Why the Green Movement Needs Women's Voices (Video)
A pioneer of green book publishing explains how she got started, and why providing a platform for women's voices was central to her mission of building a better world.
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Save Us From Ourselves: Is Resilience the Key to Making Sustainability Mainstream?
In uncertain times, stability and security are much in demand. Let's learn to market them well.
