[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk48lxgs-5c&w=560&h=315] Co-founder of the permaculture movement, David Holmgren, encourages permaculture activists to focus their energies on retrofitting suburbia for an energy descent future. David argues that the opportunities to retrofit are so much more important than new buildings because of the limits to debt based growth.
A worthwhile read for parents, relatives, friends, neighbors, or educators and mentors of young people. by Amanda Witman, peakprosperity.com How do we prepare our children for a future that is unlike any we ourselves have ever known? How do we create a world worth inheriting when we are so acutely aware that the abundance our generation has taken for granted will no longer be a given in our children’s future? These questions can frustrate and even paralyze us as parents,...
In the face of enthusiastic reports from authorities about the coming oil and natural gas supply increases, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed provides us with an excellent analysis that gives us a clearer picture. Please see article posted on Ceasefire – The Great Oil Swindle: why the new black gold rush leads off a fiscal cliff
Peak oil and climate change have been referred to as the Hydrocarbon Twins. They are so intertwined that seen in isolation, a large part of the story remains untold. Both, of course, are symptoms of a society hopelessly addicted to fossil fuels and the lifestyles they make possible. It is, however, too simplistic to assert that peak oil will mean climate change will be brought under control because we will run out of access to affordable liquid fuels; the situation...
Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of global oil production has been reached, after which the rate of oil production follows an inevitable decline. Many experts in the field, including the International Energy Agency, say production of conventional crude oil has already peaked. Peak oil is not about running out of oil, it is about running out of cheap, affordable oil. We have extracted only half of all the oil that is recoverable, but the...