This is the followup 49-100 peak oil tools as written by Sharon Astyk. To read tips #1-49 read here 49. Invite someone new to your house once every month. Try and expand your community and circle of friends regularly. Invite people to eat with you regularly – sharing food is an important part of community
This article made me smile! Although an increasing number of people are adapting to the realities of more expensive and declining energy, and a permanently depressed economy, many are still… shall we say, circumspect, about their activities. They may have been driven underground after encountering ridicule or denial from friends and family, or perhaps are
It pretty much does what it says on the tin… “Peak oil” is starting to pop up in the media more and more these days. Everybody from Glenn Beck to the Sierra Club says that the world is running out of cheap oil and that this could be, well, inconvenient, for the global economy. But
Both the stock market and oil prices have been plunging. Is this “just another cycle,” or is it something much worse? I think it is something much worse. Back in January, I wrote a post called Oil and the Economy: Where are We Headed in 2015-16? In it, I said that persistent very low prices
A look back at November 2012 Brian Shebairo, the owner of hipster hot dog haven Crif Dogs in Manhattan’s East Village, just made it through Hurricane Sandy’s devastating power outage without closing down. Now he’s sitting on 210 gallons of gas — during a quasi-apocalyptic fuel shortage — in anticipation of another looming crisis: the
Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our co-conspirator, the sine qua non in all we do! Can’t live with it, can’t — right at this moment — live without it. But it’s on everyone’s mind. Back in 2009, as fracking and the mining of the oil/tar sands in Alberta ramped
A fairly good primer from the History Channel in 2007 on Peak Oil.
It’s time to call Peak Oil
I’ve been thinking a lot about Peak Oil recently, and am increasingly convinced that we are seeing its effects already starting to play out in world news, in low oil prices, flat economies, etc. It is widely accepted that Peak Oil occurred for conventional oil in 2005/6 and that led via very high oil prices
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