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the peak oil crisis: we are starting to dim 2008-06-16 08:58:58 Tom Whipple points out in this article that very little has been talked about electricity, and how our supplies rely on oil.
Although it has received scant coverage in the U.S. media, in many parts of the world, the electric grids are shutting down for long periods each day. In a few places the electricity is [...]
what have you done today towards food and energy independence? 2008-06-16 08:35:49 Sharon Astyk has inspired many people to think about and work towards food and energy independence. Most of us have so much to learn, having been raised from supermarkets and the global economy. Sharon’s weekly updates is a very useful idea, breaking up the mammoth task of learning how to support ourselves into a series [...]
bottom of the barrel 2008-06-17 05:21:05 A Mother Jones article, by Josh Harkinson, gives a simple explanation of the different methods of oil production. As conventional oil gets harder to find and extract, the oil addicts have even worse methods that could be used to acquire oil products - but to do so would be madness in the face of climate [...]
26 things you can Do RIGHT NOW to manage your anxiety 2008-06-25 10:02:31 Published at PeakoilBlues.com
If you aren’t feeling some degree of apprehension right now, you aren’t reading the news. Here are some of my thoughts for turning that emotional energy into constructive action:
1. SET A GOAL TO CUT YOUR EXPENSES by some concrete number—10%, 20%, 30%, even 50%, and set up a plan to do it. Reducing [...] Read more:anxiety
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UK energy - a state of emergency 2008-06-25 09:33:47 Euan Mearns at Oil Drum: Europe.
From riches to rags
The bar chart up top indicates the cost of importing oil and gas to the UK ballooning to about $200 billion (£100 billion) per annum by 2013 - just 5 years away. This completely dwarfs the riches of North Sea oil and gas production the UK enjoyed [...]
a hopi elder speaks 2008-06-25 07:45:00 “You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the hour. And, there are things to be considered…Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to [...]
You. Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Get. Food. 2008-06-24 13:12:56 The empire of cheap food is crumbling
You. Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Get. Food. Need this be spelled out any more plainly? It is time to consider that the stage has been set for petroleum-induced famine.
We have “innocently” accommodated rising population with greater and greater food production via technology and the profit motive. But now [...]
the blue pill people 2008-06-20 09:08:55 by Hari Heath, Dec - 2002 “Idaho Observer” (reprinted at Information Clearing House)
In the movie, when Morpheus is about to offer Neo the choice between either the red pill or the blue pill, he explains:
“You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain — but you feel it. You’ve felt it [...] Read more:people
apocalypse now? to hell with debate, what can the simple folk do? 2008-06-19 08:00:37 More advice, this time from Donna Williams in the American Chronicle.
Even in California, where people rarely use public transport let alone grow their own food, the governor announced CA officially drought effected. And that means water restrictions like we have here in Australia. In time anything outdoors you won´t be able to water. So get [...]
status quo-oh 2008-06-19 07:37:42 The floods in Iowa have spurred James Howard Kunstler to talk about ‘Katrina in slow motion’.
Iowa in 2008 will be an even slower-motion disaster than Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Beyond the troubles of 25,000 people who have lost all their material possessions is a world whose grain reserves stand at record lows. The crop losses [...]
Milton Freidman and the ninth circle…. 2008-07-06 10:02:46 Jayson R Jones on Cyrano’s Journal:
We have allowed nearly everything to be privatized: water, power, transportation, energy. There is very little of any value left in public hands, and what is left is already tied up in long term leases that are very beneficial to the private parties holding those leases. The power elite has [...] Read more:Milton
abundant skies: 8 principles for successful rainwater harvesting 2008-07-06 09:05:43 8 principles, by Brad Lancaster on Oil Drum: Local.
Principle #1: Begin with long and thoughtful observation.
Principle #2: Start harvesting rain at the top of your watershed, then work your way down.
Principle #3: Always plan an overflow route, and manage overflow as a resource.
Principle #4. Start with small and simple strategies that harvest the rain as [...]
what’s your consumption factor? 2008-07-03 13:03:46 An interesting question in the International Herald Tribune.
To economists, 32 is even more special, because it measures the difference in lifestyles between the first world and the developing world. The average rates at which people consume resources like oil and metals, and produce wastes like plastics and greenhouse gases, are about 32 times higher in [...] Read more:factor
is a big hunk of steak worth almost 2,000 gallons of water? 2008-07-03 12:39:29 asks Colin Dunn on Alternet.
Summer is heating up, and all the pools, barbeques, lawn-water
ing and the like that put our water use under the microscope, even more than it is the rest of the year. But did you know that we all have a “water-footprint”?
Quite similar in concept to the carbon footprint, our water footprints [...]
doing more with less 2008-07-01 10:05:36 Inspiration from the urban homesteaders.
With headlines about rising food costs, soaring gas prices, and skyrocketing foreclosure rates that reach directly into everyone’s wallets, as well as sobering reports about the state of the earth’s environment, there is mounting pressure for some relief. The question arises: How can an individual or one family cope in such [...] Read more:doing
peak oil will absolutely reverse globalization 2008-07-01 09:21:47 Nicolas van der Leek’s take on what to expect in the coming months and years.
Say Goodbye
The first casualty of high oil prices are vast swathes of the poor, especially the rural poor. They may disappear for a while from the aisles of commerce (informal industry mostly) but they will reappear in cities as massive disordered [...] Read more:globalization
garden doom…no, not really 2008-06-30 12:35:43 Sharon Astyk makes us all feel better about not getting that dream vegetable garden planted this year. Its a great article. If your garden isn’t as full as you’d planned, don’t panic. Growing food is a steep learning curve, and whatever you plant, your garden will get better every year, what was once hard work [...]
let the banks go under, sell 10 million houses for $1 each 2008-06-30 09:56:54 So says Charles Hugh Smith on oftwominds.com
In fact the dissolution of the insolvent parts of the U.S. banking sector–yes, the investment banks
, the money-center banks, the regional banks, and the savings and loans–would actually be an enormously positive development for the nation and indeed the world.
Let’s start with the fact that a huge number of [...] Read more:million
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the food irradiation plot 2008-07-23 06:16:25 Paranoid? We don’t think so. Conspiracy? Well, no, its just a system that engineers us all to think the same, put money before truly good things like health, community, fun, joy and love, and rewards the people who subscribe to this worldview the most with positions of power, privilege and wealth.
As Mike Adams, on Natural [...]
sleeping beauty and why you should think about peak oil (even if it seems much nicer not to) 2008-07-17 09:02:31 Sharon Astyk tells us why we should be paying attention, and think
ing about peak oil and climate change in the present tense.
So I thought it might be good to do a post not so much on what peak oil is (if you scroll down there’s some resources in the sidebar that can help there) but [...]
rigidly male-dominated societies are violent; the U.S. is no different 2008-07-17 08:14:41 Riane Eisler spotlights gender inequalities in the US, on alternet.org
Nothing, for example, has been said about the fact that poverty in this wealthy nation disproportionately affects women, so much so that, according to U.S. Census figures, women over the age of 65 are twice as likely to be poor as men over 65. Nor have [...] Read more:violent
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is china the endgame? 2008-07-16 08:42:07 Thought provoking article on from the wilderness.
We quote the ending comment:
THE FAILURE OF COMPETITION
In the competition for declining oil reserves, ultimately everyone will lose. In the process of struggling for world domination and energy domination, both militarily and economically, we will drain the world’s remaining energy supplies without preparing for the coming transition. The ne
what I store that isn’t food 2008-07-16 08:25:37 More to think about from Sharon Astyk.
1. Shoes - I have a thing about shoes. You see, I have crappy eyesight, and there is zippo chance I will ever shoot a deer for moccasins. I’ve made felted boots and slippers, and could put old tires on the bottom of them with some work. [...]
curse of the black gold 2008-07-14 11:08:25 Is the title of a new book, by award-winning photojournalist Ed Kashi with the geopolitical insights of UC Berkeley professor Michael Watts. Interview on Alternet.
They are wars that are already well under way. In mid-June, a Shell facility was attacked by local militants, disrupting production and sending the already sky-high price of oil to further [...]
our cry for cheap oil is crude and deadly 2008-07-14 10:37:37 The reality of what you are asking for, when you demand the UK govt do something about the price of oil, by Johann Hari in the Independent.
When you cry for cheaper oil, do you know what you are really asking for? Gordon Brown has just shown us. He has unwittingly exposed the pipeline that runs [...] Read more:deadly
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