Energy Bulletin founder talks up Permablitz
Permablitz: An event in which volunteers use permaculture principles to transform a suburban garden into a place that produces its own food.
Adam Grubb
A beguiling veneer of normalcy
Are we at the beginning of an epic Depression, or at the bottom of a nasty recession with brighter days only months away? … These reasons for concern pale in importance before the deeper, more profound and systemic problems of our time.
The post-oil novel: a celebration!
The post-oil novel began as a little-known aberration within the speculative fiction genre. But it’s now hitting bestseller lists, generating comment in major papers, and garnering increasing acceptance from the mainstream of speculative fiction. Frank Kaminski takes a spirited, authoritative look at this blossoming subgenre
A post-oil man
Strangely compelling video-art featuring a peak oil survivalist.
Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
My talk tonight is about the lack of collapse-preparedness here in the United States. I will compare it with the situation in the Soviet Union, prior to its collapse.I watched the Soviet Union collapse, and I have tried to put my observations into a concise message. I will leave it up to you to decide just how urgent a message it is.
How Long Can the World Feed Itself?
The world’s grain supply for human consumption is being eroded by three different factors: meat, heat and biofuels.
Yes! Magazine special: 5,000 Years of Empire: Ready for a Change?
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community /
Portrait of a Perfect Economic Storm /
How Likely Is Collapse? /
Surviving Hard Times; It’s Not for Sissies /
North Korea & Cuba: Peak Oil Preview /
It Takes Energy to Make Energy / More…
Does nuclear power produce no CO2 ?
Fossil fuels, especially oil in the form of gasoline and diesel, are essential to every stage of the nuclear cycle, and CO2 is given off whenever these are used. (Photo essay)
The power of community: How Cuba survived peak oil
"Try to image an airplane suddenly losing its engines. It was really a crash"… A crash that put Cuba into a state of shock. There were frequent blackouts in its oil-fed electric power grid, up to 16 hours per day. The average daily caloric intake in Cuba dropped by a third.
The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse
The proposed Iranian Oil Bourse will accelerate the fall of the American Empire.
The “Abiotic Oil” Controversy
The abiotic theory holds that oil is from inorganic origin, and that there must be nearly limitless pools of liquid primordial hydrocarbons at great depths on Earth. If the abiotic theory does eventually prove to be partially or wholly scientifically valid (a big “if”), it might have little or no practical consequence in terms of the imminent global oil production peak.
Full text of Dick Cheney’s speech at the Institute of Petroleum Autumn lunch, 1999
Full text of a lost speech. “By 2010 we will need on the order of an additional fifty million barrels a day. So where is the oil going to come from?… Oil is unique in that it is so strategic in nature. We are not talking about soapflakes or leisurewear here. Energy is truly fundamental to the world’s economy.”