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The Burning Earth Bears Witness in California
The Burning Earth Bears Witness in California Photo by Glenn Beltz | CC by 2.0 Watching the first ten minutes of the “Public” (Petroleum and/or Pentagon?) Broadcasting System (“P”BS)’s NewsHour two nights ago, I was overcome by a sense of the surreal. The first news item was the Insane Clown President’s (ICP) idiotic (if base-pleasing) […]
Beware the Green Corporate Scam: the 100% Renewable Façade
Beware the Green Corporate Scam: the 100% Renewable Façade A few months ago, Google announced that they will achieve their goal of being 100% powered by renewable energy in 2017 [1]. They are not the only corporation with such lofty goals. Google is joined by GM, Apple, Coca Cola, and more than one hundred companies […]
Why do we need jobs if we can have slaves working for us?
Why do we need jobs if we can have slaves working for us? We normally assume that anything that creates jobs is a good thing, but is it, really? Is our current prosperity related to having “jobs”? Isn’t it, rather, the result of the large number of “energy slaves” working for us in the form […]
With U.S. Backing, Ukraine Pushes to Privatize Paris Climate Agreement
Photo: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images WITH U.S. BACKING, UKRAINE PUSHES TO PRIVATIZE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT LIKE MOST DOCUMENTS that travel through U.N. channels, a recent proposal from Ukrainian diplomats is blanketed in jargon and buzzwords, promising to render things “integrated, holistic and balanced” and to promote “ambition.” But this proposal — brought by the Ukrainian negotiating team […]
Can Puerto Rico go 100% solar?
Can Puerto Rico go 100% solar? With seasonal variations in output of only around 30% Puerto Rico is at an ideal latitude for solar power, and despite generally low capacity factors (caused by cloudiness) it can be argued that if solar doesn’t work there it won’t work anywhere. And as the results of this post […]
The Geopolitical Implications Of Renewable Energy
The Geopolitical Implications Of Renewable Energy An October report from BlackRock (BLK)—the world’s largest publicly traded investment management firm—wisely states, “markets are calm but geopolitics are anything but.” Wind and solar energy—two leading renewable energy options—could possibly become a dangerous part of an energy mix as the world continues on a downward geopolitical slope. Both […]
‘Divest The Globe’ protests urge banks to cut ties with fossil fuels
‘Divest The Globe’ protests urge banks to cut ties with fossil fuels On Monday, activists in Washington, D.C. demonstrated outside the John A. Wilson Building — home to both the mayor and city council. (350 DC) While banking executives from over 90 of the world’s largest financial institutions gathered in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Monday […]
The New Surburbanism
THE NEW SUBURBANISM Many people in industrial societies live in the suburbs which are really neither city nor country living. Many people have openly criticized the suburban way of life as the apex of consumer lifestyle highly dependent on fossil fuel input. Suburban life is a sort of pseudo-rural life where affluent middle and upper-class […]
World Out Of Whack: Electricity YAY!
World Out Of Whack: Electricity YAY! Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040 So says the Guardian. Which follows on from: France to ban sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2040 This follows Norway, The Netherlands, Germany and now – the big Daddy… China plans to ban […]
Family Life Without Fossil Fuels—Slow and Satisfying
Family Life Without Fossil Fuels—Slow and Satisfying I stepped off the train in the farm town of La Plata, Missouri, with my 9-year-old son, Zane. Thomas was waiting to meet us with two well-maintained bikes, one with a trailer for our backpacks, the other with a long wooden seat for passengers, to make the 6-mile […]
Inside the new economic science of capitalism’s slow-burn energy collapse
Inside the new economic science of capitalism’s slow-burn energy collapse And why the struggle for a new economic paradigm is about to get real Source: art by Isaac Cordal New scientific research is quietly rewriting the fundamentals of economics. The new economic science shows decisively that the age of endlessly growing industrial capitalism, premised on abundant fossil fuel […]
Can economic growth continue without fossil fuels? The IPCC thinks so — here’s why its decarbonisation models are broken
Can economic growth continue without fossil fuels? The IPCC thinks so — here’s why its decarbonisation models are broken (Source: VICE) Published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a crowdfunded investigative journalism project for people and planet. Support us to keep digging where others fear to tread. In this third contribution to our symposium, ‘Pathways to the Post-Carbon Economy’, biophysical economist Graham […]
Earth Tubes: A Natural Way to Air Condition Your Home
EARTH TUBES: A NATURAL WAY TO AIR CONDITION YOUR HOME There is nothing nicer than coming inside on a hot, muggy summer day to feel the freshness of an air-conditioned home. Traditional air conditioners, however, are one of the most energy-intensive appliances in our homes. Only a couple feet underneath where you are standing, however, […]
Joseph Tainter: The Collapse Of Complex Societies
Joseph Tainter: The Collapse Of Complex Societies What history predicts about our future prospects By popular demand, we welcome Joseph Tainter, USU professor and author of The Collapse Of Complex Societies (free book download here). Dr. Tainter sees many of the same unsustainable risks the PeakProsperity.com audience focuses on — an overleveraged economy, declining net energy per […]
The dream of 100% renewables assessed by Heard et al
The dream of 100% renewables assessed by Heard et al Posted on April 12, 2017 by Before the world can transition from fossil fuels to 100% renewables it must come up with a transition plan that has some realistic chance of working. So far Energy Matters has evaluated a few such plans, including ADEME and […]
