Tag: Peak Oil - Page 9
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"Globalized Consumer Society Without Oil is Nonsense" - the Findhorn Film
I have posted a video before that explored the ecovillage at Findhorn, now there is a whole DVD based around this pioneering sustainable community. Only this DVD isn't just about the community—it's also about lessons we may
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Can Gas Street Lamps Be Made Green? (Video)
From natural gas 'fracking' to burning tap water, we know all too well that natural gas is not exactly a clean, problem-free fuel. But what are sustainability advocates to do in a town that cherishes its gas street
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High Poverty Neighborhood Tackles Peak Oil - First "Transition Slum" Launched
Image credit: Transition Culture The Transition Movement has spread like wildfire across the planet. Yet when the Transition USA movement was featured in the New York Times, some interviewees grumbled that the touchy-feely hippy aspects were only
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Get Up To Speed on Peak Oil & Our Changing Climate With The Nation's New Video Series
Peak oil is a perennial topic on TreeHugger, with huge implications for energy and climate policy even though it is only now (too little, too late) being taken seriously or even really talked about outside of energy wonk circles. To get you up to speed
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"Your Money or Your Life" Author on Finance, Sustainability & Happiness (Video)
From David Korten calling on us to "abolish the Wall Street mafia", via reflecting on an addiction to growth, through to living simply as an alternative American Dream, some of the best contributions from Peak Moment TV
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Believe in Global Warming? You "Kool Aid Drinking Commie" - XtraNormal Takes on Peak Oil (Video)
I've asked before whether trolls can be green, so it should have come as no surprise that my attempt at writing a tongue-in-cheek, overly hyperbolic headline about guest bedrooms as the enemy of sustainability had me labeled
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When Low Tech Beats Fancy Innovation - Ensuring Resilience
Some time ago I posted about the apparent dichotomy between eco-modernity and green traditionalism—suggesting that there is a very real danger of letting
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Canadian Government Report Predicts a Tar Sands Oil Boom
A report by the Canadian government warns that Canada and the U.S. will both shift toward heavier forms of crude oil as global sources of lighter crude become scarcer. The biggest problem with that shift is one the report
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Jeff Rubin On How Shale Oil Might Be Like Sub-Prime Mortgages
Jeff Rubin quit his job as Chief Economist at a big bank to write Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller. Tyler Hamilton does a terrific interview of him in the Toronto Star, in which Rubin unleashes his usual memorable zingers. Hamilton
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A Picture Is Worth: Early Evidence of Peak Oil
Some say we are hitting peak oil about now; Rick Prelinger sent this evidence of peak oil in 1963 to the Atlantic Monthly. I don't think it is real, though; who spells Lloyd with one L?
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Graph of the Day: The Cost of Production Of Oil
Whenever we speak of Peak Oil, the optimists point out that the technology for finding replacements will turn up as the prices rise; look at what has
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Why Resilience Beats Sustainability - Rob Hopkins on Transition in the City (Video)
Yesterday I posted about the new film from the creators of the End of Suburbia. This time around, the focus is on cities—and how cities can adapt to future shocks from peak oil, climate change, food shortages and
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End of Suburbia Director to Launch ResilientCITY - the Future of Our Cities (Video)
Image credit: Resilient Planet The End of Suburbia and its sequel, Escape from Suburbia, might just be the most influential documentaries within the environmental movement to be seen in recent years. True, they may not have achieved the mainstream
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Carbon-Neutral Sail-Powered Cargo Ships Scheduled to Return to European Waters in 2012
What comes after fossil fuel powered containers shipping is a pet topic of mine to contemplate and a new story from CNN on what the folks at B9 Energy (primarily a wind power company...) are planning in the way of carbon-neutral
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Divided We Fall? The Role of Debate in the Environmental Movement
When I asked, in my own skeptic atheist way, whether we must embrace the sacred to survive peak oil, commenter robertrfiske urged us to not "feed that beast"
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Must We Embrace the 'Sacred' to Survive Peak Oil?
There's no doubt that religion and spirituality can be a divisive subject. I've asked before whether green religion will sink us or save us, and suggested that preaching at people is not
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The Massive Impact of Just One Community Transition Group
The Transition Movement may have introduced me to backcasting, but it has never been just about workshops or visioning techniques—from harnessing peer pressure to promote
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Short Animated Films About Green Stuff (Videos)
Images: Story of Coal, Story of Electronics, Brief History of Fossil Fuels, What Happens When the Oil Runs Out And the Oscar for Best Green Short Goes to... One of the great things about the web is how inexpensive it now is to reach a lot of people. Not
