Climate change is a problem of fossil fuel dependency, and solving it requires reducing that dependency quickly and dramatically.
… Peak oil is welcome Richard Heinberg | 7th August 2008 Comment Peak Oil Carbon Climate Change Coal Gas Fossil … contraction faces a tough battle. The peaking in production rates of oil, coal and …
Heavy on the moralising, light on cheer, a new book on low-carbon living has Phil England reaching for the classics
… Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change by Pat Murphy Phil … Pat Murphy Plan C Transition Community Peak-oil Climate Change Comments And Analysis … plan for solving not only climate change and peak oil but also overpopulation, poverty and …
The community supports the farmer and the farmer supports the community. Why isn't everyone taking part in the latest agricultural revolution, wonders Ed Hamer
… are the looming challenges posed by the peak oil crisis. It is no coincidence that the … along the supply chain. A positive aspect to peak oil Even the most rigid commentators … to processing, packaging and transport, peak oil is now emerging as the catalyst, …
It’s hard to learn much or do much about sustainability without getting your hands dirty.
… each year to forestall the inevitable peak of global oil output). We need skills in … of the Post Carbon Institute and author of Peak Everything This article first appeared in …
Growing your own would be vital if the shops shut for good. Steve Solomon has the key to a persistent vegetable state
… Reviews Gardening Self-sufficiency Vegetables Peak Oil Farming Local Food Production … the key to a persistent vegetable state So peak oil has arrived, food prices are soaring … of reputable seed companies in the English-speaking world. The last section gives growing …
If you want evidence that global warming is happening, you need only look to China. Unseen by the rest of the world, much of the north of the country is turning into a land of droughts, dust storms and deserted villages.
… their slopes steep and craggy, their soaring peaks lost in the distant haze. As the bus … perched precariously on each successive peak. On the rocky slopes fruit trees …
As the second great depression gets under way, how will we deal with it and who will the fingers be pointing at?
… finite world, collapse is a matter of timing. Peak oil and climate chaos are inevitable … and is the author of The Party’s Over and Peak Everything. This article first appeared …
Prince Charles has called UK peatlands ‘Britain’s tropical rainforests’ – and like rainforests worldwide, ours are in decline. Trevor Critchley reports on the devastating consequences for global warming
… there have been more than 350 wildfires on Peak District moors. One of the biggest, on … soon became badly eroded. Spring 2007 in the Peak District saw widespread moorland closures … The Pennine Way stretches 268 miles from the Peak District to the Scottish Borders. The …
The current economic downturn is hard, but it’s also filled with opportunities to remake the world in a more sustainable way, says Stephen Hale
… this imperative, of course, but the threat of peak oil is another powerful driver. A recent … that most believe global oil supplies will peak by 2010. A 2005 report by the US … of replacements 10 or 20 years before oil peaks, a crisis ‘unlike any yet faced by …
Well, now we have it; nuclear power is once again going to save the day. In the past it helped save us from coal, now it is going to save us, if the rest of the world follows our example, from global warming.
… to be built which may get used only at peak times. Meanwhile, to ensure an … capacity is now used inefficiently to meet peak loads. In fact, the daily peak load for electricity in winter reaches …
During the past weeks, the world’s media have been transfixed by the convulsions of the US and global fi nancial system. At stake are billions in bail-outs and trillions in derivatives. The viability of banks and currencies is threatened, and ultimately the savings and investments of hundreds of millions of ordinary people.
… of the Post Carbon Institute and author of Peak Everything This article first appeared in …
It’s 2008, and feeding ourselves has never been easier. We take for granted a supply of every agricultural commodity on the planet, 365 days a year. Food is cheap. Never in living memory have we spent less on it as a proportion of our total expenditure. Even our poorest citizens can afford the luxury foods of yesteryear, like salmon and chicken.
… mark and we have or are about to pass the ‘peak’ of world oil output, after which … seasonal ingredients at their nutritional peak, and by avoiding the battery of additives …
The question arises soon after readers or lecture audiences first become acquainted with global oil depletion and climate change. I must be asked it at least once a week.
… and is the author of The Party’s Over and Peak Everything This article first appeared in …
It’s fair to say that we have our share of robust discussions in this office. Opinions get aired, fingers get pointed, occasionally voices get raised. It’s all in a good cause. Setting the world to rights isn’t always a civilised tea party.
… is predictable: climate change, land use, peak energy, food security, government …
A decision to allow the destruction of an ancient woodland suggests the UK’s environmental policies are crumbling at the first hint of oil, says Sarah Lewis
… last great oil rush. With the price of oil peaking at $135 (£68) a barrel, even the …
Within two years, Britain could be facing a series of blackouts and the ignomony of importing the resource it once considered so plentiful from a host of politically unstable countries.
… is insufficient and that, during periods of peak demand, there is too little margin for … failure in periods of heavy demand. Once peak periods were confined to the frosty … all night as cheaper electricity during off peak hours encourages 24 hour working. Most of …
The World Bank’s 2008 World Development Report makes a grim prediction of what is to come:
… is the looming crisis of climate change and peak oil. Climate change itself is a key … In addition to climate change, the effects of peak oil may already be upon us. With oil … rely on mechanisation and fertilisers. Peak oil threatens these advances. In the UK, …
Is it possible to live off foraged food alone? Fergus Drennan thinks so and aims to prove it. In the first of his monthly columns he explains why, from April 1 st, he will be eating nothing but wild food – for an entire year...
… Mesolithic ancestors. Perhaps the spectre of peak oil, social collapse, anarchy and chaos …
Bruce Parry on tree-bark trips, deforestation and lessons learnt from tribal living
… the way the world will be again once day when peak oil kicks in, but I want to be ahead of … in the need for a global, moral voice to speak for all of us, and we absolutely have to devolve power. What languages do you speak? Indonesian and Malay (enough to get by). …
As the urgent necessity of our transition away from fossil fuels becomes plain, it’s inevitable that some of us will take that necessity seriously enough to explore the edges of ‘normal’ behaviour.
… just not cool; indeed, it’s exciting to think peak oil and climate change might offer …