Tag: Peak Oil - Page 12
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Disasterbation Turns You Blind
I may be in danger of repeating myself here, but I have been thinking a lot about pessimism, nihilism, and a certain schadenfreude that pervades some parts of the Green movement. From the Dark Mountain Project's rejection of
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How Will Supply and Demand Affect Peak Oil?
From IEA whistle-blowers to the US military warning of peak oil in a few years, there's plenty of reason to question the sustainability of our energy intensive ways. But when I wrote about the Dark Mountain Projects'
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Giving Up on Environmentalism: The Dark Mountain Project (Video)
I'll make no attempt to deny it. I am both an optimist, and a deeply impractical person. I suspect that's why I've always had a hard time accepting the darker visions for the future offered by peak oilers like
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We Use How Much Oil Per Second? (Video)
A liquid flow of 40,000 US gallons per second is a hefty amount. This seems to be the number that oil executives use to illustrate world oil usage. In 2007 Exxon-Mobil Chairman Rex Tillerson used this
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Peak Everything: Three More Things To Worry About
Richard Heinberg wrote the book Peak Everything, a theme we picked up on in Peak Everything: Eight Things We Are Running Out Of And Why. Now we have to face three more possible
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How Transition Towns Embrace Collaborative Learning (Video)
While Alex Steffen may think Transition Towns have a dark side, and even I have been concerned about some transitioners tendency to assume that the collapse of capitalism is inevitable, one thing that this social movement does
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Activism Beats Prophecy: Wishful Thinking is Not a Strategy
"Climate change says we should change. Peak oil says we must change."
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World Crude Oil Production Projected to Peak a Decade Sooner
Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section.
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Real Resilience Comes from Expanding Our Footprint?!
"We, in ManTownHuman, believe that a more critical, arrogant and future-oriented cadre of architects and designers can challenge the new eco-centred, bureaucratic, anti-intellectual, fragmentary, localising consensus and in
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When Does Energy Independence Meme Become Xenophobia? (Video)
I may get stick from those who want to paint all greenies as liberal, PC zealots for this one, but what the heck. I've started so I'll finish.
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Christians Tackling Climate Change and Peak Oil: Churches in Transition
Given the combative nature of recent discussions on TreeHugger, I am bracing myself for a slew of comments about environmentalism being a religion for this one. But just as burgers being food does not imply that all
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Peak Oil in 5 Years: Virgin Boss Branson's Warning
It's always hard to know what to make of Richard Branson. From his reported $3bn investments to fight climate change to his offer of cash prizes for removing atmospheric carbon, the man certainly talks a good talk when it
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Living Simply: An Alternative American Dream?
When I wrote about a video of Ian Graham's permaculture farm in Canada, I took issue with the guy's prognosis that it's probably too late already. Yet with resource depletion and climate change knocking at the door, it doesn't
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Oil Is Too Important To Burn In Cars
If there is one lesson to be learned from the designers, thinkers and curators presenting at Conversations in Design: A World Without Oil, it is the fact that we need the stuff for a lot of uses far more important than pushing boxes of
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Jesse Ashlock Says We Have Two Options: "Gecko or Eco"
Jesse Ashlock was the last editor of ID Magazine, and is the moderator of the Conversations in Design: A World Without Oil
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Urban Communities and Peak Oil: Transition Brixton (Video)
Yesterday we looked at Al Jazeera's report on Transition Town Totnes—offering a vision of how small towns are tackling climate change and peak oil through community involvement. But how does the Transition model relate to
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Transition Towns on Al Jazeera (Video)
Image credit: Al Jazeera English The Transition Movement has featured in the New York Times, and the Times newspaper, among countless news outlets around the world. This community-lead response to peak oil and climate change is gaining huge attention in
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Quote of the Day: Jeff Rubin On Chinese Food Delivery
Jeff Rubin was chief economist of CIBC World Markets until he quit to write a book: Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller. He is always good for a quote, and writes in the Globe and Mail:
