Renewable Industrialism
Posted on April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
… I agree. It seems that most people want to have their ecological cake and eat their industrial prosperity too. Modernity is inherently linked to a desireRead full story
Re: Tower of Solitude
Posted on April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
Sounds like ‘wealth envy’ David. Yes, sad situation, but I wouldn’t characterize his girlfriend as anything else. You don’t know her, and apparaently she isRead full story
Forties - Grangemouth: the failure of a complex tightly coupled system
Posted on April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
The sequence of events (covered here on The Oil Drum previously) that led to the Forties Pipeline closure on 27 April 2008 began in 2005 when BP, currently the UK’s largest company, sold Innovene, their Grangemouth refinery subsidiary to Ineos. Ineos is privately owned petrochemicals company that has grown from nothing since its formation in […]
Grangemouth strike: Anglo Disease in action?
Posted on April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
Extended from the European Tribune version, which was itself inspired by earlier coverage here on TOD. More relevant background can be found in these two articles from a few months ago: UK Energy security and The European Gas Market, both by Euan Mearns.
Now that the news that the Forties pipeline has to close down is […]
Book review - World Made by Hand
Posted on April 27, 2008 | Filed Under Peak oil | Leave a Comment
Mick Winter, DryDipstick.com. Kunstler’s novel brings to life a community and world that Kunstler himself has created - informed by his many years of study of our society, its built environment, and the Peak Oil threat. He has tempered his usual neo-Gonzo writing style and created interesting characters with depth and complexity.
If you think the oil situation is bad..
Posted on April 27, 2008 | Filed Under | Leave a Comment
It’s hard for oil not to be in the news at the moment, but we haven’t seen coverage like this very often. This article by Jad Mouawad is from the New York Times, but today it was published as a full page feature in the The Age Business section in Melbourne:
If you think the oil […]
DrumBeat: April 26, 2008
Posted on April 27, 2008 | Filed Under | Leave a Comment
UK: It’s time to relocalise our lives
FACED WITH panic at the pumps, Alex Salmond was absolutely right to urge people to behave sensibly and responsibly, by cutting out non-essential trips, and using public transport. But he should have added: “Get used to it”, because we urgently need to realise that this isn’t just a one-off.
While we fret about filling the […]
Glenn Beck Announces End Times
Posted on April 27, 2008 | Filed Under | Leave a Comment
Hello Everyone, This is rich. Glenn Beck, CNN’s intellectual conservative, announces the end times with novelist Joel Rosenburg. While it is easy to dismiss
$8,000 Fill-Up
Posted on April 27, 2008 | Filed Under | Leave a Comment
Hello Everyone, Peak Oil is doing humankind a great favor by depriving all of the world’s energy-intensive military equipment of their fuel. A second benefit
Flock of Dodos
Posted on April 27, 2008 | Filed Under | Leave a Comment
Hello Everyone, Simply an awesome documentary about the Evolutuion vs. Intelligent Design controversy: “Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design
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