Human ecology & behaviour
<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/hayes-image2.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>“Today, I will do one thing at a time.” These are the words I’ve been saying to myself each morning lately as I leap from my bed...</p>
<p>After well over a decade of peak oil events, it may come as a surprise to see one break new ground. Still, last weekend's "Age of Limits" conference managed that, by focusing steadfastly on what happens when current efforts to evade the limits to growth inevitably fail -- and in the process, it allowed a glimpse at certain unexpected realities in and around the peak oil movement.
<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Rio_Kasser_Figure1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="66" /></span>...perhaps the next generation will work to coordinate and jointly design interventions, communications, and campaigns that discourage values such as money, image, and status and that
<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/image_large_7.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="73" /></span>It’s a perfect time to take a look at what it means to own a home, to make a home, to rent a home.
<p>Whenever the U.S. supply of imported oil is threatened with interruption (or if the U.S. economy should recover much), the global marketplace bids up the oil price, and the politically sensitive price of gasoline will rise in step and depress consumer spending. Whenever the world oil price is high enough, it can cause an economic crisis.
<p>Contrary to the views of some ill-informed journalists and politicians, there are many places where the international momentum is swinging rapidly towards -- not away from -- a swift transition to a post-carbon economy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-05-25/post-carbon-postcard1-california-usa-and-british-columbia-canada">read more</a></p>
<p>- The Chelsea flower show is nature for the 1%<br />
- Randers: “Don’t teach your children to love the wilderness”. Discuss<br />
- Don’t Put Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa<br />
- The power of bread: let us eat politics<br />
- Kenyan TV show ploughs lone furrow in battle to improve rural livelihoods</p>
<p><b>CaSoO<sub>3</sub> + CO<sub>2</sub> -> CaCO<sub>3</sub> + SiO<sub>2</sub></b></p>
<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/SacredEconomicsFrontCover3-200x300.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="67" height="100" /></span>Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein is a well-researched discussion of the history of money, capitalist economics
<p>My role in Transition started in 2005 when a friend and myself started showing some films about peak oil, about the idea that we are reaching the end of an age of cheap energy and all that that has made possible.
<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/IMG_5310.thumbnail.JPG" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>-The Barcode moment, Part 1<br>-Learning To Love A Wounded World<br>-It's all right</p>
<p>For the past two years or more, I’ve been working on a major research and writing project to try to recover from the mists of history the bits and pieces of what might be called “commons law” (not to be confused with common law).
<p>It's become common to see activists rejecting, often with quite a bit of heat, the suggestion that they might want to embrace in their own lives the changes they hope to get the rest of the world to adopt.
<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/dragonfly_white-200x261.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="77" height="100" /></span>Celebrating Failure is perhaps the least understood ingredient in the book. Because we live in a culture of success.
<p>- WWF Report: Consumption of Earth's resources unsustainable<br />
- Monthly Review: Marx’s ecology and the understanding of land cover change<br />
- New report from Club of Rome warns about humanity’s ability to survive without a major change in direction<br />
- The Big Fix: documentary exposes BP, U.S. Gov't on Gulf disaster/Interview: the Tickells, filmmakers
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