“Each Day Humble Supplies Enough Energy to Melt 7 Million Tons of Glacier!” Energy has not always been conceived the same way, at least by oil companies like Humble, a forefather of Exxon. The copy below says: This giant glacier has remained unmelted for centuries. Yet the petroleum energy Humble supples—if converted into heat—could melt [...]
With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary. read an excerpt!
LONDON’S abandoned petrol stations are to be converted to charge electric cars, it was revealed today. An American firm is planning to transform dozens of empty stations. They will have airport-style waiting lounges where drivers can buy food or coffee. Evoasis is setting up the first electric-car garage in Grovesnor Road, Pimlico, where up to [...]
I just found this very accessible and calm film made for the BBC. It provides a lot of information on our current food system and on possible alternative low energy farming. However, this different approach will require a change of habits we have (like plowing the fields and having our food being based on cereal [...]
I didn’t feature this site, yet. So I will do it now, because I think it is well worth it. (I mentioned it here, already, though.) David Holmgren, the co-originator of the permaculture concept, published a website in may last year, on which he maps out the cultural implications of peak-oil and climate change: www.futurescenarios.org [...]
EWS – Elektrizitätswerke Schönau Die mitreißende Geschichte der Stromrebellen Der Förderverein für umweltfreundliche Stromverteilung und Energieerzeugung Schönau im Schwarzwald e.V. (FuSS e.V.) hat einen einstündigen Dokumentarfilm über die Schönauer Energie-Initiativen produziert. Der Film schildert die unglaubliche Geschichte der “Schönauer Stromrebellen” von der Reaktorkatastrophe in Tschernobyl im Jahre 1986 bis zum Jahrestag der zehnjährigen Stromnetzübernahme 2007. [...]
…in my humble opinion. At least when you see it from the point of view of human civilization. …The macro-trends driving global threats and challenges have been apparent for decades and are now building toward a threshold of irreversibility. The scientific modeling of complex systems shows that when systems reach a state of critical instability, [...]
…take your dog! Not stupid, ain’t it… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moaQv4mT0Ls[/youtube] More about mini sulkis and dog carting here.
Absolut unterstützenswerte Aktion von Greenpeace, der Greenwashing-Kampagne von Vattenfall entgegenzutreten! Die Seite ist sehr informativ im gewohnt humorvoll-populistischen Greenpeace Stil. Neben der eMail-Petition finden sich auch einige Hintergrundinformationen rund um Vattenfall, Konzerne im Allgemeinen, Events und der besonderen Rolle Vattenfalls in der Lausitz. Sehr zu empfehlen ist auch das Schwarzbuch Vattenfall, welches als kostenloser PDF-Download [...]
What is a Transition Town (or village / city / forest / island)? It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change? In november 2008 a Transition Cities [...]
