The Stories We Tell Ourselves: "One of the things that makes our culture’s reliance on the utopian myths of progress and apocalypse so problematic as we approach the end of the age of cheap energy is that both narratives claim to explain the entire universe."
Tools for the Transition: "One of the most hopeful features of this side of our predicament is that the revitalization of old technologies can be done successfully by individuals working on their own. It’s precisely those technologies that can be built, maintained, and used by individuals that formed the mainstay of the economy in the days before cheap, abundant energy..." (paean to the slide rule)

Starting tomorrow The Economist Online Debate Series is starting a two-week long online, Oxford-style debate on solving the world’s energy crisis. Readers are invited to participate.

Cheap way to 'split water' could lead to abundant clean fuel
Pine Ridge Reservation radio station KILI-FM brings its renewable energy vision to life
Westford woman on a mission to get residents using renewable energy

A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.

Dumpster diving with the freegans: Why pay for food?
City to get 50 MW power from garbage
Rubbish idea that could make driving cheaper

Congress must pass renewable energy tax incentives
Swords into plowshares: Lockheed Martin's work in efficiency sector (video and transcript
Jeremy Legget: A low carbon diet
'Extreme Makeover' family, NTUA dispute power credits
Ken Bossong at SEC on July 31, 2008 Congressional Green Expo

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens wants to supplant oil with wind
Is it safe now to admit Jimmy Carter was right?
Oilsands image fight targets U.S. politicians
Labour's plan for dealing with high energy prices
Ex-EPA aide tells of White House censorship
In energy, there are no easy answers

As Web traffic grows, crashes take bigger toll
Waiting for the internet meltdown

Profile of Bill McKibben
Interview with Amory Lovins
Megan Quinn Bachman: Surviving peak oil, thriving in community
Climate dialogue groups in Seattle

Can we get away from the hierarchal model of centralized manufacture and distribution, and replace it with a world where design emerges from open-source collaboration and is manufactured at the point of use by 3-D printers and community manufacturing centers?