Tag: Peak Oil - Page 11
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Peak Oil Alarm Raised By Secret Government Talks
Could government finally be waking up to the threat of peak oil? When a government minister attended a peak oil conference as a "keynote listener", I perhaps unkindly cited it as evidence
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Peak Helium: Get Ready For The $100 Party Balloon
Now we have two more to add to the list: Helium and
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Inspiring Film: Uniting Government Policy With Grassroots Action (Video)
Even conservatives cheered when one Transition Town received a huge Government check, and with good reason. As part of the massive Low Carbon Communities Challenge the idea, for once, was to explore how
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Are We Hooked on Growth? Dispatches from the Edge of a Cliff (Video)
When Peak Moment TV asked whether being uncivilized is sustainable, it prompted an interesting discussion on what happens if we move away from current models of industrial civilization. Now their next episode tackles
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Read a Sample Chapter of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
In Nigeria, the oil has not stopped leaking.
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How Will Small Businesses Survive Peak Oil?
From Yahoo to Virgin, big business is waking up to the threat of peak oil. So much so, that Virgin bross Richard Branson believes we should be mobilizing for peak oil as if for war. But what about the little guy? It's often
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Stop Eating Fossil Fuels, Start Eating Food
Michael Pollan says that if you eat a typical American diet, you are made of corn. Dale Allen Pfeiffer takes it one step further, and says We are Eating Fossil Fuels. (Actually, Jaymi points out that Michael Pollan says that too.)
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Is It Possible To Really Go Off The Grid?
Scott Huler, author of On the Grid, makes a very important point in a guest post on The Infrastructurist : Nobody is really off the grid. Well, maybe the Amish, but almost nobody. Everyone else is part of an enormous
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Peak Asphalt: Why We Are Running Out Of The Stuff
John previously wrote about how rural roads are going back to the stone age because of the cost of asphalt. The sticky black liquid was the bottom of the barrel in the oil industry, often sold at a loss, to be mixed with aggregates and
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Is Being Uncivilized Sustainable? Keith Farnish on Disconnecting (Video)
I'll admit it. I may advocate peeing in public, stopping showering (quite as much), and I am a big fan of dumpster diving and the moneyless man. But despite these nods toward the crunchier end of green living, I love my
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Is Anaerobic Digestion Needed to Avoid Massive Famine?
Image credit: AgCert Peak oil is a subject that has gained much traction (even inspiring some sexy if pessimistic dancing from Oily Cassandra). After all, it's hard to ignore the fact that our dependence on oil and other fossil fuels leaves us
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We Are a Nation of Oiloholics
Question: When an
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From Anti-Runway Campaign To Community Sustainability (Video)
It's so much easier to be against something than for something. In fact, I'd argue that is one of the central strategic challenges facing sustainability activists. How do we convert opposition against
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Suburban Permaculture: Neighborhood Watch as the Key to Resilient Community? (Video)
When Jan Spencer destroyed his suburban driveway, turning it upside down to create a water feature, and create room for a permaculture garden, it must have been hard to predict the chain reaction that would follow. Having
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'Unreasonable Woman' Diane Wilson Doused in Oil to Protest BP's Liability Cap
Diane Wilson, one of the founders of the Code Pink protest group, today anointed herself with a glass jar of toffee-colored oil at a Senate Energy Sumbcommittee meeting to protest, she says, Senator Lisa Murkowski's blocking of
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The Boom in Doom: Peak Oil in the New York Times
Peak Oil is not news to TreeHugger readers, but in the New York Times, John Leland talks to people who are preparing for food shortages, a collapse of the economy, a breakdown of civil order that many think is
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New Urbanism Evolves; The Future is "Agrarian Urbanism"
Greg Lindsay of Fast Company attends the 18th annual conference on New Urbanism, the architectural movement founded by Andrés Duany that tries to imbibe new communities with lessons from the old. But he finds that Duany has moved on. Lindsay
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Eating Your Friends: Homesteading with Animals (Video)
From backyard permaculture to a young couple downsizing to live simply, Peak Moment TV has shared a variety of different approaches to sustainable living. Their latest episode is a visit to a four acre homestead in a town
