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• A radical in the Age of Denial

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  Its all about community. The age of cheap fossil fuels allowed us to forget that. But communities are making a comeback, and well need strong ones if were to get through the years ahead with minimal human suffering. Well also need tremendous doses of compassion, creativity, and courage. read more
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• Climate & environment - Nov 24

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  -Swiftboating the Climate Scientists -Countdown to Copenhagen: A change in the political climate on emissions -Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study read more
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• Australian Senate: Peak Oil motion defeated 31:6

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  The Government and Opposition today voted against a Greens motion in the Senate calling on the Government to plan for peak oil. read more
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• World Oil Production Forecast - Update November 2009

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  World oil production peaked in July 2008 at 74.74 million barrels/day (mbd) and now has fallen to about 72 mbd. It is expected that oil production will decline at about 2.2 mbd per year as shown below in the chart. The forecasts from the IEA WEO 2008 and 2009 are shown for comparison. The IEA 2009 forecast has ...
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• On roadkill, seasonal foraging, and getting by with a little help from my tribe

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  If I had waited until this week to gather the food, I’d be in trouble. It took myself and a group of eight people at the wilderness skills school TrackersNW more than a day to turn a few buckets of acorns into flour in September. We had to crack the shells with a hammer, extract the nutmeat with our fingernails, ...
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• The trouble with apocalypse

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  While apocalyptic stories may seem as if they are about our collective path, for the individual they are really about an inward journey. That is why they can be quite good at filling movie theaters, bookstores, and churches. And, that is why appeals to the apocalyptic strain in culture are a wrongheaded strategy ...
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• A Doomers Christmas Carol

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  Hey humans – we’re screwin’ up! As the beasts of resource depletion and climate change slouch ever-closer towards our happy homes, maybe it’s time to re-think things a bit. In this epic story, the Doomer Ghost of Christmas Future gives us a grim tour of one of our possible futures, shows us “The Last Book ...
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• Slow Money: Bringing Money Down to Earth

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  Woody Tasch has thought a lot about money: what it does, how it moves, and how to connect people who have it with people who need it...But he found that even socially responsible investing couldnt do much to fix an economy that focused too much on extraction and consumption and too little on preservation and ...
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• Small animals and urban ag - Nov 20

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  -Female farmers find goats a good, but busy choice -Chickens come home to roost in backyards around the USA -Bite-Sized: Small cattle make big impression -Saving The Bed-Stuy Farm: Choose Better Nutrition, Not Demolition read more
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• ODAC Newsletter - Nov 20

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  Oil prices fluctuated in the high $70’s this week reflecting the ups and downs of the dollar. Higher oil prices are loosening the discipline around the implementation of OPEC oil quotas as producers cash in... read more
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• Solutions & sustainability - Nov 19

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  -Go forth and multiply a lot less -The new wave of urban farming (and fresh food from small spaces!) -Urban farms a fertile idea -Summary Presentation for Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization -The next Industrial Revolution will be people-powered -Sustainability and Social Justice: Do the Math -Greening ...
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• How to Set Up and Run a Bicycle Repair Company

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  Many of the articles that discuss the causes and effects of humanitys unprecedented energy use are entirely theoretical, offering little practical guidance for the everyday reader. This essay offers respite to all the people who confront our collective energy problems with a furrowed brow and an expression that is ...
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• Review: The Ecotechnic Future by John Michael Greer

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  John Michael Greer has officially established himself as an institution within the peak oil community. Truly one of the finest minds working on the predicament of modern-day industrial civilization, he is so well-read in so many fields that he regularly gains access to insights that utterly elude his contemporaries. ...
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• Food Futures: Strategies for resilient food and farming (pdf)

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  Our current food systems are precarious and vulnerable to external ‘shocks’. A combination of one or more external factors, such as extreme weather conditions, global conflict or trade disputes could easily disrupt the continuity of food supplies unless we make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, ...
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• Canadas House of Commons must convene inquiry into fossil fuel supply

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  A recent front-page report by the British newspaper, The Guardian, is the latest reason why Canada needs a top-level analysis of global hydrocarbon supplies. The Guardian’s November 9th story is headlined “Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower.” The story focuses on the world’s top ...
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• Dancing the Copenhagen two-step - Nov 17

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  -Leaders plan a two-step environment deal -The psychology of climate change -Greenlands Ice Sheet Melting Faster than Ever -Rainforests could be traded on world market -Leaders agree Copenhagen will focus on principles, not concrete goals read more
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• Feeding the world, climate change, and peak oil - Nov 17

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  -UN links climate with hunger -Hungry for change -The Links Between Food Security And Climate Change -Agriculture in the Climate Change Negotiations, Platform Issue Paper -The one thing depleting faster than oil is the credibility of those measuring it -Promoting climate-smart agriculture read more
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• Food & agriculture - Nov 16

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  -Program could match Colo.s next generation of farmers with land, expertise -Feeding the city -The Nitrogen Fix: Breaking a Costly Addiction -Aid Groups, Farmers Collaborate to Re-Green Sahel read more
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• Enter the Elephant

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  In the Happiness Hypothesis , psychology professor Jonathan Haidt compares human brain/behavior to a man riding an elephant. There exists a complex choreography between our newer rational cortex (the man), and our older, more primitive brain structures (the elephant). read more
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• The new farm owners

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  With all the talk about "food security," and distorted media statements like "South Korea leases half of Madagascars land," it may not be evident to a lot of people that the lead actors in todays global land grab for overseas food production are not countries or governments but corporations. read more
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