Check out Transition Voice’s live blogging coverage of the ASPO-USA Truth in Energy Conference in Washington, DC from Nov. 3-5. Sponsored by Transition US. Days 1 and 2, with a variety of panels (featuring such speakers as Nicole Foss, Gail Tverberg, and Naomi Davis, founder of Blacks in Green) and a keynote talk from agrarian
A peak oil movie you can skip
October 19, 2011 By
When my friends with green groups dismiss peak oil as a propaganda campaign run by the oil industry to scare the public into chanting “drill, baby drill,” I smile. Hey, I care about peak oil but I’m also an environmentalist from way back, I protest. The Sierra Club card — I won’t leave home without [...]
Who’s afraid of Daniel Yergin?
September 26, 2011 By
Maybe you’ve tried arguing with a Fox News fan about global warming? Soon, you could start having the same kind of time-wasting exchanges about peak oil and energy depletion. The good news is that unlike climate change, most people haven’t even heard of peak oil. That’s certainly a challenge, but it’s also an opportunity to [...]
Who’s storing food now?
September 16, 2011 By
After the deadly super-flu epidemic in the film Contagion has emptied city streets and looters have cleared store shelves, Matt Damon’s character finds himself shivering in a food line when a soldier announces through a bullhorn that he’s sorry, but the supply of MREs has just run out. In response, the assembled hungry crowd breaks into [...]
Peak oil explained graphically
September 14, 2011 By
If you’re into peak oil, you’ll love this infographic from carsort.com. It’s simple and engaging enough for you to send to your friends who don’t yet know or care about peak oil, with basics on where oil comes from, what countries use it most and even what peak oil is. But it’s also snazzy enough [...]
Peak oil angst and the lure of techno-utopia
March 30, 2011 By
‘Zeitgeist: Moving Forward” clearly sees the dangers to human civilization but fumbles the solution.
Jump right in, the water’s fine
March 14, 2011 By
Meet filmmaker Jon Cooksey, the man who put the fun back in climate change and peak oil, in this video interview by Peak Moment TV.
Why corporate “free speech” means climate and peak oil doom
March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“The corporations won’t get out of our democracy until we the people get back in,” says Annie Leonard in her new video on big money in politics. So keep fighting for renewable energy, green jobs, healthcare, safe products, and top-notch public education. But save some energy for the battle of our lifetimes. A battle that [...]
Top peak oil stories of 2010
January 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The biggest stories of the year were financial. But you could say that the continuing Great Recession, the deficit debate, and more and more mortgage defaults were really stories of energy-driven economic crisis. This year also had plenty of big stories directly on energy, including some breakthroughs on peak oil. Here are our top picks. [...]
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