The Bush Administration Checkmated in Georgia
Michael Klare
The Pentagon as Energy Insecurity Inc.
Michael Klare
A Climate of War
Oil Change International
The End of the World as You Know It
…and the Rise of the New Energy World Order
The lead story in the New York Times today is a detailed bubble bursting of the much vaunted boom in unconventional natural gas.
Natural gas companies have been placing enormous bets on the wells they are drilling, saying they will deliver big profits and provide a vast new source of energy for the United States.
But the gas may not be as easy and cheap to extract from shale formations deep underground as the companies are saying, according to hundreds of industry e-mails and internal documents and an analysis of data from thousands of wells.
Efficiënt omgaan met gro
ndstoffen
Nu de rest van de wereld ook begint te consumeren zoals de westerlingen, neemt de druk op grondstoffen toe. Europa, dat kwetsbaar is doordat het veel materialen moet invoeren, pleit er dan ook voor efficiënter met grondstoffen om te gaan. Lukt het om het roer om te gooien?
The following is an excerpt from Bob Cavnar's new book, Disaster on the Horizon: High Stakes, High Risks, and the Story Behind the Deepwater Well Blowout (Chelsea Green, 2010)
Britain's promise to more than double its use of biofuels by 2020 is "significantly" adding to worldwide carbon emissions, the Government admitted yesterday. Britain is signed up to a European guarantee to source 10 per cent of its transport fuel from renewable sources, such as biofuels, within the next 10
It’s time to talk honestly about collapse–no matter how others may respond.
by Robert Jensen
We live in the midst of multiple crises—economic and political, cultural and ecological—posing a significant threat to human existence at the level we have become accustomed to. There’s no way to be awake to the depth of these crises without emotional reactions, no way to be aware of the pain caused by these systemic failures without some dread and distress.
Lees verder / Read on
Uit Lowtech Magazine 25-10-2010
Een grootschalige introductie van hernieuwbare energie en elektrische auto's botst op een fundamenteel bezwaar: een tekort aan energie en andere grondstoffen om de gewenste infrastructuur uit te bouwen.
André Diederen, onderzoeker aan het Nederlandse TNO, sloopt in zijn zopas verschenen boek "Global Resource Depletion" de heilige huisjes van de ecotech-optimisten. Maar hij geeft ook hoop.
Beste landgenoten,
Tijden zijn aan het veranderen en samen kunnen we de richting bepalen.
By: Paul Chatterton and Alice Cutler from the Trapese Collective (following the link you get the PDF-file including photo)
TOWNS MOVEMENT AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE.
There’s been a lot of talk about Transition Towns (TT) lately. In a nutshell, the TT approach offers a permaculture-influenced model for a transition to a low carbon society. The original idea grew out of a full time permaculture degree in Kinsale, Ireland where in 2005 Rob Hopkins and his students developed a town wide Energy Descent Plan for a ten-year period.
Door: De redactie van Postfossiel
De groei in de verkoop van water uit flessen neemt astronomische proporties aan. Het Pacific Institute heeft over 2006 de volgende berekeningen gemaakt ten aanzien van de hoeveelheid energie die nodig is om aan deze vraag te voldoen.