<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/harp-seal-baby-thumb-400x275-62591-thumb-400x275-62592.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="69" /></span>One of the things I've been arguing for years is that most people in the developed world, given a perceived lack of alternatives and no narrative t

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/preserving-biodiversity-promoting-local-foods-gordon-jenkins-interview-slow-food-USA.thumbnail.gif" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="66" /></span>Food is at the core of so many of our global problems, including hunger, obesity, energy, climate change, economic di

<p><span class="inline inline-right"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/ASPO.JPG" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="80" height="75" /></span>A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:<br />
-Oil and the global economy<br />
-Conflict in the Middle East<br />
-The global oil balance<br />
-Quote of the week<br />
-Briefs</p>

<p>- Green Urbanism: Learning from the world<br>- Tearing down urban freeways to make room for a new bicycle economy<br>- Urban Bikeway Design Guide</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-03-21/transportation-urban-design-march-21">read more</a></p>

<p>- Christian Coalition Visits Hill for Energy Discussion<br>- Generation Why project spreads ideas with 'informed optimism' approach (Canada)<br>- Rockefeller Bill Would Gut the EPA<br>- Climate activist Tim DeChristopher talks about his guilty verdict<br>- Germany's future is Green</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-03-21/energy-nation-march-21">read more</a></p>

<p>- Bill McKibben: Japan's Horror Reveals How Thin is the Edge We Live On<br>- Nicholas Stern: Climate inaction risks a new world war <br>- Monbiot: We won't trouble Saudi's tyrants with calls to reform while we crave their oil<br>- Learning from Japan about Resilience</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-03-21/what-tangled-webs-march-21">read more</a></p>

<p>- Quinoa’s Global Success Creates Quandary at Home (Bolivia)<br>- Ethiopia at centre of global farmland rush<br>- Perennial Crops, Sustainable Agriculture: A 21st Century Green Revolution (Wes Jackson)<br>- Can poor Kenyan fishermen can improve themselves without destroying local coral reefs? (audio)<br>- Nunavut plans to promote local foods</p>

<p>It is irresponsible to ask people to rely on the calculation of small probabilities for man-made systems since these probabilities are almost impossible to calculate with any accuracy. Natural systems that have operated for eons may more easily lend themselves to the calculation of such probabilities.

<p>- Thomas Homer-Dixon: Our Fukushima moment<br>- Amory Lovins: With Nuclear Power, "No Acts of God Can Be Permitted"<br>- Roger Smith: Paul Goodman on nuclear power<br>- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: World energy crunch as nuclear and oil both go wrong</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-03-20/nuclear-march-20">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/P2256590.thumbnail.JPG" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>It’s not that you are discounting yourself - it’s that the personal you with all its small indulgences, its interiorities and subjective biographical events is turned inside out suddenly and asked