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Posted by Walter Haugen on May 20, 2012 at 7:49pm 1 Comment 1 Like
The Whatcom County Library just got in a copy of Jeff Rubin's new hot-off-the-presses book, The End of Growth (May 8, 2012). I just finished it today so it will be available again in a couple of days. Rubin's book should not be confused with Richard Heinberg's book of the same name, which treats the same subject from a different angle. The Growth Model is over, done, finished, kaput. [Both books are excellent, BTW.] Rubin's book focuses on a strictly economic perspective in…
ContinuePosted by ross rabette on May 15, 2012 at 9:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I had a conversation with a friend a couple of weeks back about what we are doing at Localswitch – We talked about a town close to us who have recently set up a LocalSwitch Association. The Borrisokane LSA have given us a mandate to help them create 50 jobs, with a population of 1200 people. He found it hard to believe that something like this was possible in the current economic environment. To tell you the truth, this is something we are hearing a lot at Localswitch.
Posted by David MacLeod on May 8, 2012 at 10:15pm 7 Comments 1 Like
ContinueThe gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for thepeople who break them. The gross national product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and…
Posted by Walter Haugen on May 6, 2012 at 9:07am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Great - you can fly out to Pennsylvania, thus incurring a huge carbon footprint which negates all the conservation measures you implemented in the last year AND waste 4 days going to MEETINGS plus a day on either side traveling to the conference and decompressing because of the horror of modern air travel; OR you can spend 6 days planting something to eat. Your choice.
Posted by Walter Haugen on April 22, 2012 at 3:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Assume for a moment that I exist (and no, this is not a proposition by Wittgenstein!). Now assume that it takes energy to keep me alive. Now we can ask how much energy it takes to keep me alive. The answer is 2500 kilocalories per day, since I am an average US male who is not an active athlete (e.g. cycling 50-100 miles/day). A further fact we need to know is that I expend about 500 kilocalories in an 8-hour sleep period (the standard…
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G8 leaders meeting last weekend in Camp David will have been cheered by the recent slide in oil prices – albeit that the weakening in price is largely a consequence of the increasingly dire economic news. Nevertheless the group issued a statement to the effect that should the price start heading back in the other direction they will be calling on the IEA to take action...
Oil pundits and politicians are pushing the idea of United States energy independence due largely to the current boom in hydraulic fracturing. But behind the rhetoric, is there any truth to these claims?
A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
During the last six years the world’s production of oil has, overall, been flat. From 2005 up to and including 2010 annual it was around 81.5 Mb/d with top production in 2010 at 82.1 Mb/d. World oil production has never been greater than in that period. We describe the maximum rate of oil production from an oilfield, region or the world as “Peak Oil”.
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