<p>Last week's energy news included a piece from the Associated Press with a headline reading: "U.S. poised to become world's top oil producer; may soon overtake Saudi Arabia." If the reporter had actually examined figures available from the U.S.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/TS-logo-June-11.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>I have written several times here about ‘Transition Streets’, the street-by-street behaviour change model created by Transition Town Totnes which was the winner of the 2011 Ashden Award

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/scapegoat.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="69" /></span>The energy world portrayed in the debates—in which coal is “clean” and oil and gas companies will lead the U.S.

<p>-Why America’s Economic Growth May Be (Shh!) Over, a New Marketplace Podcast<br />
-Living Well: Explorations into the End of Growth<br />
-And now: Peak growth theory</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-10/end-growth-going-mainstream-oct-10">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/nps.govPWSCook-300x173.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="58" /></span>We are not quite out of gas yet in the United States.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/ASPO -USAlogo80.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="80" height="80" /></span>Every year in Washington DC, the annual Environmental Film Festival screens thought-provoking films.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/solar_day-150x150.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>A short while back, I described my standalone (off-grid) urban photovoltaic (PV) energy system.

<p>...Kunstler has a new work of social criticism titled Too Much Magic, his first nonfiction book since The Long Emergency came out in 2005. The book is an inquiry into a skewed, delusional perception of reality that Kunstler thinks has become “baseline normal for the American public lately.” Americans, he says, have been led astray by the incredible technological advancements of recent times.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/power-from-the-people-300.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="67" height="100" /></span>The second book in our Community Resilience Guides series with Chelsea Green Publishing, Power From the People illustrates how communities across the country are already genera

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/conf8-490x367.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>A little over a week to go until the Transition Network conference 2012, and it is all getting very exciting.

<p>Meet the new third party in national politics: Reality.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-09-04/join">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/DSCF0032.thumbnail.JPG" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="98" /></span>Growing up I knew charcoal as the square, chemical-soaked briquettes people bought in bags and poured into the barbecue grill once a summer.

<p>Apparently, we Peak Oil advocates are “fleecing the inherently gullible.” Who knew? The author didn’t get around to explaining just how we do so, although he did offer a hint that our “headline-grabbing, money-making blockbusters” are the culprits. (What have I been missing?

<p>Batteries fail—as certainly as death and taxes. Rechargeable batteries at least offer the possibility of repeating the cycle, so are in this sense more like recurrent taxes than death.

<p>The documentary takes a penetrating look at overpopulation, what fuels it and why the world has become complacent about the issue after making a good start in addressing it during the late 60s.