Tag: Peak Oil - Page 12
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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
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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
