Review: Boys and Oil by Taylor Brorby
Above all, Boys and Oil is a glorious tour de force of narrative nonfiction: a memoir that reads like the best kind of novel, with a gripping story and an astonishing sense of place, time and character.
Energy featured
Making waves: Electric ships are sailing ahead
While the Yara Birkeland is smaller than some of the cargo ships entering circulation today, which are still fuelled by heavy oil and diesel, the growth in fully electric ships is picking up pace.
Left in the dark: The families struggling to survive fuel poverty
Steve and I had a long conversation about fuel poverty, but it is this image of him, his partner, daughter and granddaughter – three generations of one family – sitting at home with all the lights off that sticks with me.
Electric Shock! Technological Complexity and the Modern Lifestyle
A certain level of technology certainly improves human lifestyle; but beyond a certain point technology creates a ‘trap’ – where growing complexity creates a higher risk to our well-being should those systems suddenly fail.
Rapid transition to beat the heat – Housing
Addressing the shortcomings of our housing stock in the face of increasingly frequent and severe heat waves could stimulate rapid transitions in a variety of key transition areas, such as heat pump installations and reclaiming streetscapes from cars.
Overlorded…
In fact, the only thing we must do is survive this mess. And the best way to do that is to jettison the whole thing and build the lives we need.
How Fossil Fuels Made the Human Race Dependent on a Finite Resource
Carey King of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin discusses how the last 70 years of economic and population growth have been fueled by the transition to petroleum, how a decreasing supply of it has increased political polarization, and what the future might hold as supplies continue to dwindle.
Keeping cool without costing the earth
This is one of the greatest challenges for rapid transition in our warming world: as temperatures rise, and extreme heat events become more frequent and severe, how can we keep cool without costing the Earth?
Is it time to ration energy?
In Bookchin’s view, freedom wasn’t about doing whatever the heck we want and letting others clean up the mess. Real freedom was the freedom to collectively determine how to satisfy our needs in a precious and finite world.
Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction
Understanding how opponents of climate action employ these discourses of delay is essential to recognizing climate disinformation and misinformation, Arena said, and ultimately to disrupting it.
Ten Little Euphemisms: What Do They Portend for Climate Policy?
Like an environmental impact study, a federal rulemaking can take several years to complete. Legal challenges can extend the overall process by years.
Oops! U.S. oil and gas exports fuel domestic price rise
The oil and gas industry got U.S. export restrictions lifted in the last decade promising that there would be so much production that the United States would have plenty for domestic use and export. Rising prices of oil products and natural gas have Americans rethinking that policy.