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Don't Worry About Peak Resources, God Will Provide and Fix, Says GOP Rep
Take that, Jim Kunstler and all you peak oilers and climate warmers! According to Mike Beard, Republican state rep from Bachmannland, aka Minnesota, God will provide and repair. According to Huffpo: "God is not capricious. He's given us a creation that
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Localization Does Not Mean "Anti-Business"
All too often, environmentalists and local economy advocates are framed as being anti-progress, when really it's a question of asking what kind of progress (and what kind of growth) do we want to see. Rob Hopkins has a great interview with BALLE
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$9 Billion Award, But Ecuador Must Look Elsewhere for Hope of Payment
Yesterday brought historic news—Chevron was fined nearly $9 billion, one of the largest awards for environmental damage ever, for polluting the Ecuadorean Amazon with more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater. But
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Exxon, Shell Both Essentially Admit Peak Oil Is Upon Us - Or Will Be Soon
Two today on peak oil and how the big oil companies are finally publicly (if quietly) coming around to what peak oil researchers have been saying for a while: It's here, or will be shortly.
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Coolest Seed Bank Ever? Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (Video)
From Seedy Sunday's massive seed swap to the celebration of potato day, now is definitely the time of year we turn our thoughts to biodiversity in the garden. And while we continue to get excited about seed libraries as works of
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After Almost 20 Years of Legal Battles, Chevron Fined $8 Billion for Amazon Pollution
It's been a long battle: people of the Ecuadorean Amazon against Chevron, which is accused of dumping more than 18 billion gallons of toxic waste sludge into the Amazon, leaving people sick with cancer and suffering
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Peak Oil & Our Culture of Denial
Brian Merchant already reported on WikiLeaks revelations about Saudi Oil reserves being overstated by 40%, a claim that could mean that Peak Oil would be upon us as early as 2012. Now Jeremy Leggett over at The Guardian is also raising the alarm,
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Quote of the Day: Jeff Rubin On Alternatives To Oil (Or Lack Thereof)
What do you favour as an
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Potato Day Celebrates Biodiversity in the Garden (Video)
There's no doubt about it, we Brits love potatoes. Lloyd has already marveled at the celebration of "Potato Day", and Bonnie followed up with details on how gardeners across the country gather to marvel at the diverse
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Fossil Fuel Nostalgia and Post-Peak Sentimentality
Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Movement, isn't shy about sharing his views that our future will be radically different from our present. He recently declared, for example, that the idea
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Peak Oil & Poverty - More Background on the Egyptian Popular Uprising
Another turn in the back story of why the Egyptian people have taken to the streets to oust 30-year dictator Hosni Mubarak: Peak oil--well, nationally peak oil at least. A new article in Le Monde Diplomatique by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed sheds light on
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State Dept Stays Quiet on Tar Sands Communication with Oil Lobbyist, Former Clinton Aide
Questions are looming over why the State Department won't release its correspondence with Paul Elliott, a former campaign staffer for Hillary Clinton and current oil lobbyist who is seeking Clinton's approval for the Keystone
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Shell Denies Allegations in Nigeria, Where an Exxon Valdez-sized Spill Occurs Annually
Despite a long history of blatant environmental and human rights abuses in Nigeria, Shell denied in a Dutch public hearing this week allegations of using "nontransparent, inconsistent and misleading figures" regarding the causes of oil
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How to Boil a Frog and Maybe Save Humanity (Video)
From the Findhorn film's warning that consumer society is impossible without oil, to Escape from Suburbia's search for a life after fossil fuels, we're not short of movies that give a sobering account of
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Could Inefficiency Save Us From Peak Oil?
Whether it is activists claiming that a "globalized consumer society without oil is nonsense"or Richard Heinberg arguing that we'd best get used to life without growth when peak oil
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Does Peak Oil Mean an End to Economic Growth? Richard Heinberg (Video)
Image credit: The Nation Richard Heinberg has talked about life after economic growth before. Now, as part of its ongoing exploration of peak oil, The Nation magazine gives him a platform to expound his views to the world. It doesn't make for
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Could We See Fuel Rationing by 2020?
With secret government talks suggesting peak oil may be nearer than we think and IEA insiders claiming world oil stats have been inflated, it makes sense to start planning for a world where
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Personal Resilience is as Important as Planetary Sustainability
Whether it is cutting yourself some slack when it comes to your eco-failures, dealing with eco-anxiety or guilt, or just trying to earn a fair wage in a sustainable economy, TreeHugger has devoted many column inches to the idea that to look after the
