Peak Oil Rock & Roll

SUBHEAD: "We’re on the back-side of the peak (Hubbert’s Peak) And it’s fallin’, fallin’, fallin’ down (fossil fuel production)".By Dan Allen on 21 January 2010 in Energy Bulletin - (http://www.energybulletin.net/51262)Image above: Igor, a former reactor shift supervisor at Chernoblyl Nuclear Plant in better days. He still misses operating the reactor. From (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

Start Gardening With a Vengeance

SUBHEAD: More of us should take up the spade, make some compost, and start gardening as if our lives depended on it.By Ellen LaConte on 30 March 2011 in AlterNet - (http://www.alternet.org/food/150428/garden_as_if_your_life_depended_on_it%2C_because_it_does)Image above: Poster circa 1925 with Uncle Sam advocating "Garden to cut food costs!" From (http://gallery.pictopia.com/natf/photo/8612566/).

Economy - Energy - War

SUBHEAD: The world is stable in the sense of hanging by your fingernails is stable.By Bas Van Berkel (Ilargi) on 21 March 2011 for The Automatic Earth - (http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-21-2011-stable-in-sense-of.html)Image above: A military tank that will be used to clear rubble from the Fukushima nuclear complex leaves Camp Asaka on a trailer.

Limits to Complexity

SUBHEAD: It seems we are witnessing the time when increasing technological complexity is obviously costing more than we gain.By George Mobus on 14 March 2011 in Question Everything -(http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2011/03/limits-to-complexity.html) Image above: Computer devise as doorstop. From (http://craze001.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/computers-a-lifetime).Three Mile

Planning for Failure

SUBHEAD: Inconceivable! Why failure should be a part of this plan, but isn't.By Sharon Astyk on 14 March 2011 in Casaubons Book - (http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2011/03/inconceivable_why_failure_shou.php)Image above: The wreckage of the Challenger shuttle in 1986 just months before the Chernobyl meltdown. From (http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/investigations/q0122.shtml)."He'll never

The Race Is On

SUBHEAD: Whether oil soars or China swoons, the race to the bottom is on.By Guy McPherson on 14 March 2011 in Nature Bats Last -(http://guymcpherson.com/2011/03/the-race-is-on)Image above: "Chariot Race" to celebrate the 2762nd birthday of Rome. From (http://eternallycool.net/2009/04/games-in-honor-of-romes-2762nd-birthday).Everywhere I turn, I read and hear about $200 oil in the near future (

Nuclear Nightmares

SUBHEAD: The near-term consequences of nuclear catastrophe likely to result from collapse of the world’s industrial economy are unthinkable.By Guy McPherson on 14 March 2011 in Transition Voice - (http://transitionvoice.com/2011/03/nuclear-nightmares)Image above: Children being checked for radiation exposure after reactor explosion in Fukushima. From (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/

Impact of Middle East Unrest

SUBHEAD: Energy is not a segment of the economy; it IS the economy.By 6 Energy Experts on 10 March 2011 in Post Carbon Institute -(http://www.postcarbon.org/blog-post/275142-6-energy-experts-address-the-economic)Image above: Dubai lit up at dusk. From (http://thenakedgardner.com/?p=123).With instability in the Middle East driving oil prices higher, huge cracks are widening in the global economy.

Why Growth Won’t Return - Food

SUBHEAD: Food producers’ ability to meet growing needs is being strained by rising human population.By Richard Heinberg on 10 March 2011 in Post Carbon Instutite -(http://www.postcarbon.org/article/272062-earth-s-limits-why-growth-won-t-return)Image above:Photo of women on food line. From (http://hillary.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/08/24/

Why cheap energy Is a bad thing

SUBHEAD: Drive down oil consumption with higher taxes. Stretch out limited supply for best purposes.By Jean Laherrère on 9 March 2011 in The Nation - (http://www.thenation.com/video/159001/jean-laherrere-why-cheap-energy-bad-thing)Image above: A 2004pink Hummer H1 turbodiesel 4wd at the beach. From (http://news-cars-en.blogspot.com/2011/01/hummer-h1.html).In this tenth video in the series “Peak

The Area Under the Curve

SUBHEAD: We have never faced the stark reality of a net energy decline before in history. Now we are.By George Mobus on 7 March 2011 in Question Everything - (http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2011/03/its-the-area-under-the-curve.html)Image above: An ocean whirlpool. From (http://www.unoriginal.co.uk/gallerymisc58.html).Oil Prices and the EconomyThe punch line comes

Miserable Means - Miserable Ends

SUBHEAD: Our remaining intellectual horsepower will be exhausted trying to revive the 'Kar Kulture'.By Steve Ludlum on 6 March 2011 in Economic Undertow - (http://economic-undertow.blogspot.com/2011/03/miserable-ends-justify-miserable-means.html)Image above: Before and After. Scene from movie "Cars". From (http://www.bloggerdad.com/how-cars-almost-ruined-the-super-bowl).I mean, who really cares

Reality Option Nation

SUBHEAD: A drag race with Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sen. Jim DeMint to see who can get America to drive over a cliff fastest.By James Kunstler on 7 March 2011 for Kunstler.com - (http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/03/reality-optional-living.html)Image above: Still from "Rebel Without a Cause", 1955. Natalie Wood wishing luck to James Dean a moment before the "chucken race" to cliff over the sea

Fate of the Petrodollar

SUBHEAD: The revolutions came at the worst possible time for the empire and are threatening the financial system guaranteeing the Almighty Dollar.By Zainab Cheema on 3 March 2011 in Media Monitors - (http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/83795)Image above: Fuel oil distribution in Asia set against chart of estimated demand by region. From (http://www.zerohedge.com/article/

Collapse of the Old Oil Order

SUBHEAD: Consider the recent rise in the price of oil just a faint and early tremor heralding the oilquake to come.By Michael T. Klare on 3 March 2011 in TomDispatch - (http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175362/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_oilquake_in_the_middle_east)Image above: Awbari lakes in Fezzan, Libya. From (http://landsgenre.webs.com/thecosmiclandscape.htm).Whatever the outcome of the

The Uselessness Premium

SUBHEAD: Without four more Saudi Arabias ready to dump fuel on the market the price is set to rise.By Steve Ludlum on 2 March 2011 in Economic Undertow -(http://economic-undertow.blogspot.com/2011/03/other-shoes-and-uselessness-premium.html)Image above: Egyptians hold shoes in the air in defiance of dictator Hosni Mubarek a month ago. From (http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/01/5969373

Corporations Fuel Peak Oil Crisis

SUBHEAD: Interview with Thom Hartmann. "We have to fight back against the corporate capture of government."By Kevin Gosztola on 2 March 2011 in The Nation - (http://www.thenation.com/video/158892/thom-hartmann-corporations-are-fueling-our-peak-oil-crisis)Image above: Thom Hartmann speaks at Borders in Denver August 2008. From (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnarlodious/2801262891/in/photostream/).

Hawaii in Lala Land

SUBHEAD: Delusional thinking still is front and center in the thoughts of most people in Hawaii.By Juan Wilson on 2 March 2011 for Island Breath - (http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2011/03/hawaii-in-lala-land.html)Image above: Screen shot of a computer game in which you help young Summer with her job to make her picky clientele's vacation the most relaxing and comfortable they've ever had! From (

Richard Heinberg Interview

SUBHEAD: Unless we create parallel economic structures there’s no way that we can get out from under the more repressive political aspects of the federal government.By Lindsay Curren on 1 March 2011 in Transition Voice -(http://transitionvoice.com/2011/03/interview-richard-heinberg)Image above: Detail of photo portrait of Richard Heinberg. From (http://www.lyceumagency.com/richard+heinberg.aspx)

Wake Me Shake Me

SUBHEAD: It's coming on springtime and things are breaking loose all over the place. I give Saudi Arabia three weeks before it starts to blow up.By James Kunstler on 28 February 2011 for Kunstler.com - (http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/02/wake-me-shake-me.html)Image above: Family members mourn for protester killed in Bahrain demonstration. From (http://beta.toledoblade.com/World/2011/02/18/