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• Sacred Nature?

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  I had the enormous pleasure this weekend of chairing our synagogues Scholar-in-Residence weekend, and thus hearing three talks by Rabbi Jill Hammer, Midrashist and author of _Sisters at Sinai_ and _The Jewish Book of Days_. Rabbi Hammer is an extremely fine and thoughtful teacher, and I learned a great deal about the ...
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• Gasoline Price Causing Big-Vehicle Sales

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  The retail price of gasoline in the U.S. is extremely low, not just compared to the summer of 2008. Subsidies both direct and hidden create a true cost at least a few times higher than the visible price. The actual cost is paid largely through income taxes (such as for wars in the Middle East and domestic ...
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• Geologists Vote that Peak Oil is a Concern

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  This years Petroleum Geology Conference in London included the following item on the agenda : Peak Oil: Advancing the topical debate over the timing of peak oil & gas... read more
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• Scientific Americans Path to Sustainability: Lets Think about the Details

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  Scientific American presents "A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030" in its November issue. In many ways, it sounds good. But lets think about the details: What would the end result look like? Would it really be sustainable? What would the costs really be? Is there any way we could afford to do what is proposed? ...
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• Peak oil review - Nov 9

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  A weekly review including: - Production and prices - Recovery or Speculation? - Climate Change - Peak Demand - Quote of the Week - Energy Stat of the Week - Briefs read more
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• Immigration and our ecological predicament

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  Much of the migration we are seeing today is from countries which export resources to wealthy nations. In other words, we are seeing mass migrations from resource exporting countries where carrying capacity is being systematically undermined toward countries that are importing that carrying capacity. read more
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• Water - Nov 6

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  -Scientists Reveals Secrets Of Drought Resistance -Speaker says water limitations not recognized -A Drought-Stricken Land Offers Help With Water -A Victory for the Water Underground -EROWI - energy return of water invested read more
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• Renewables & efficiency - Nov 6

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  -A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables -Farms going green to save and survive -Solar power from Sahara a step closer -Nearly 200 Organizations and Companies Urge Senate to Adopt Key Energy-Efficiency Provision in Climate Bill -Report Argues for a Decentralized System of Renewable Power Generation ...
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• Climate & environment - Nov 6

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  -Coping With Climate Change: Which Societies Will Do Best? -GMs Money Trees -The Carnivore’s Dilemma -USDA Research: Does No-Till Really Capture More Carbon? -Why growing virgin vegetable oil to burn is crazy -Pachauri Still Sees a Chance for Success in Copenhagen Talks -The Inferno read more
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• Food & agriculture - Nov 6

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  -Jonathan Safran Foers Eating Animals Book Will Fundamentally Change the Way You Think About Food -Back to the Land: The New Green Revolution -Farm Aid -Georgia growers filling organic niche market -Discussing the future of urban agriculture in KC read more
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• Growing in Community

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  I think the question of land access may end up being the central political issue of the coming century. In both the rich world and the poor world, we’ve systematically deprived people of easy access to land. We have driven up the price of land in the rich world by encouraging sprawl, and thus forced out agrarian ...
  4 days ago

• Dr. Albert Bartletts "Laws of Sustainability"

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  At the Denver ASPO conference, I had the good fortune to meet Dr. Albert Bartlett. Afterward, Dr. Bartlett e-mailed me some material he had written over the years. The "Laws of Sustainability" were included in this material. They are part of Al Bartletts contribution to the anthology The Future of Sustainability by ...
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• Decline of the Empire — Now What?

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  It is now 4 months since I wrote The Decline of the American Empire . The time is ripe for a follow-up. I will tell a sad story first, talk a little about our precarious banking system, and then relate the lessons learned back to my Decline theme. At the end I will talk about what all this means for the loosely ...
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• Capitalism, love, change, or leave it? - Nov 5

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  -John Maynard Keynes: Dont call it a comeback -Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism -Economic growth has let us down. Whats the alternative? -The Iron Cheer of Empire -Small Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formula read more
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• Continuously less and less (paper abstract)

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  The fundamental enabler of our industrialized American way of life is continuous access to enormous quantities of inexpensive nonrenewable natural resources (NNRs)—energy resources, metals, and minerals. Unfortunately, future NNR supplies will be insufficient to perpetuate our American way of life, for both ...
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• Train, train!! - Nov 5

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  -The age of the train: myth or reality? -Buffett gambles £27bn on rail to get back on track -Buffett’s Bet on Trains -Is Warren Buffetts Railway Buy a Billion Dollar Bet on Big Coal? -Its Time to Rebuild Our Passenger Railroad System -India jumps on gold bandwagon but Warren Buffett rides the growth train read ...
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• Wealth is not wealth

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  Wealth is not what we are taught. Wealth is a verb, not a noun. Wealth is not stuff; it is a fiercely protected system of concentration. It is the act of the hoarding, and is a pillar of our culture. read more
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• What "Lower Consumption" Means

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  As a high-school teacher, I wanted to give my thoroughly-industrial, suburban-NJ students a more detailed peek at their upcoming post-industrial future. I felt the need to challenge their prevailing mindsets regarding our resource-depletion predicament: the “shorter showers & change the light-bulbs” crowd, ...
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• Native Recipe for Health

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  On a stretch of desert near the U.S.-Mexico border, the only eatery on the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation opened last spring to a full house. The Desert Rain Café brightened a space in a small shopping complex, drawing dozens of curious customers who filled patio tables by noon. Its menu, local by design, ...
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• Barcelona, Copenhagen, and climate change walkouts - Nov 4

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  -U.N. Signals Delay in Climate Change Treaty -Republicans walk out of Senate hearing on climate-change bill -African nations make a stand at UN climate talks -Senators opposed to the Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring the bill’s benefits to Americans -We only have months, not years, to save civilisation from climate ...
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