We still don't have the faintest idea how much oil is spewing out of the well in the Gulf. Nor do we have the faintest idea what the full environmental consequence of what may well be the biggest single-event human-caused. ecological disaster of all time (the very fact that I have to add the word "single-event" to that statement should tell you something).

British Petroleum (BP) portrayed itself this past decade as an oil company investing in renewable sources of clean energy for a “Beyond Petroleum” future.

Now that I'm retired from the academic life -- or rather, now that I've departed the academy in disgust and despair -- I no longer spend time in my swivel chair, dispensing inform

This article concisely summarizes most of what has been discussed in Energy Bulletin over the past few months regarding Peak Oil.

We live in a time of social, economic and ecological unravelling. All around us are signs that our whole way of living is already passing into history.

-Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean
-Nature loss 'to damage economies'
-US climate bill or not, the world is on track

There was much to welcome in the new coalition's energy policy.

The 2010 Transition Network conference is fast upon us (June 12-14th, Seale Hayne Agricultural College, Devon), and I can now announce the mouthwatering array of delights that will be on offer

-Peak Relationships: the end of suburbia up close and personal
-I share their despair, but I'm not quite ready to climb the Dark Mountain
-The End of Thatcherism

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Resource collapse is bigger than peak oil, and bigger even than the projected depletion of natural gas, coal and uranium – it encompasses each and every natural resource extracted, exploited

Chances are that unless you’re a total financial wonk, you’ve never heard the term “seigniorage.” But you should, because doing the right thing with it could help solve several major, interrelated problems.

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As a small girl, Enei Begaye knew to be quiet when visiting friends’ houses.

-Crews dealt setback in placing containment dome in Gulf oil spill
-Oil production hit for decades after BP spill
-How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
-Tread carefully, Mr Obama. You need big oil

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The oil slick spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has shattered the notion that offshore drilling had become safe. A close look at the accident shows that lax federal oversight, complacency by BP and the other companies involved, and the complexities of drilling a mile deep all combined to create the perfect environmental storm.

3 years, 8 months and a day ago, 400 of us gathered here in this hall to 'Unleash' what we had just decided to call 'Transition Town Totnes'.