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 …
From theory to practice, how one man in Totnes is helping a community respond to the threat of peak oil – from its own currency to relearning lost arts. Ed Hamer reports
… Climate Change And Energy Lets Housing Totnes Peak Oil Community Archive_261.jpg From theory … helping a community respond to the threat of peak oil – from its own currency to relearning … permaculture design to the inevitability of peak oil. The term ‘permaculture’ was …
Wind, solar and hydro together generated 14.6% of Britain's electrical energy in 2015, the highest ever, writes Grant Wilson. They also peaked at 22% of electricity over the week of Christmas - another British record.
… highest ever, writes Grant Wilson. They also peaked at 22% of electricity over the week of … renewables of wind, solar and hydro peaked at 22% of Britain's electrical energy … ever daily percentage of solar generation, peaking on Sunday 7th June at 8.9% - another …
Your ideas for changing the world may be desperately important. But if you can't find a way to engage the interests of the people around you they may never take off, argues John-Paul Flintoff
… our oil reserves, and entered the era of 'peak oil'. Reading about this in the abstract, … Certainly, when I first found out about 'peak oil', in 2005, I was desperately worried. … to do more than preach to the converted. With peak oil and climate change coming up fast, I …
The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
… impending scarcity. Without doubt, oil has peaked. Not only is less crude being found; … But that is now in the past. Now it is really peak oil that is behind the wheel of the car. Peak oil is driving the rise in price 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, …
As the Government commits to a high-tech revolution in the home - meters that can be read remotely and may help alter energy habits - questions are raised about data security... and whether any of us will be interested
… And Technology Green Living Smart Meter Off-peak Electricity Gas Miliband Ed Bills Money … example by using electricity in cheaper, off-peak times. Great Britain will be the first …
There will be enough fossil fuel-burning stuff - cars, homes, factories, power plants - built by next year to blow through our carbon budget for a 2 degrees Celsius temperature rise. Never mind staying below a safer, saner 1.5 degrees of global warming, warns STEPHEN LEAHY
… is over, I have to go,” he finally said. Peak and sharply decline I couldn’t accept … says that annual global CO2 emissions need to peak and sharply decline before 2020. Wait …
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 …
None of the various technofixes on offer alter the fact that humanity has to learn to stop living on the last drops of cheap energy, and to start living within its means
… of the national economy improved. With the peak of North Sea oil and gas production, and … tar sands are a 'climate crime'; for peak oil experts, they can never do the job of …
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 ten-year campaign opposing a Shell gas pipeline in a remote cornor of Ireland is documented in a major new film - The Pipe - and has become a focal point for a community's right to oppose corporations and central government
… up to 60 per cent of Ireland's gas, at peak supply. Many different planning …
Ladakh is framed by the Karakoram mountains to the north and the Himalayas to the south. Yet even in this remote environment the forces of global consumerism are intruding. Nicola Graydon reports on the locals' inspiring defence of their culture
… a verdant oasis curving down from the stark peaks of the Himalayas. Walking around the … an audience of local dignitaries, the women speak eloquently about their attempts to …
Britain could become a ‘carbon-free’ country in just twenty years, according to a new report published by the Wales-based Centre for Alternative Technology.
… when they detect that the grid is at peak load. Paul Allen, Development Director at …
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 …
More people are turning to eco communities as a viable alternative to urban life. Laura Sevier reports
… and in an uncertain future of climate change, peak oil, food insecurity and the unstable … entire community in response to the threat of peak oil. A community-led initiative, it began …
The International Energy Agency's latest World Energy Outlook is calling for increased investment in new oil and gas, writes Oliver Tickell, while minimising the fast-growing and ever lower-cost contribution to world energy supply of renewables like wind and solar.
… of new solar PV and wind power plants will peak in 2030. However the IEA fails to explain …
Immediate moratorium on all activity by oil and gas industries would help safeguard the local community and ecosystem as well as reduce potential carbon emissions
… resources could lie there. Boom and bust Speaking at the annual Arctic Frontiers … tar sands are a 'climate crime'; for peak oil experts, they can never do the job of …