Overshoot

Water - August 20

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Leading Wall Street water analyst Neil Berlant: Price of water in US to rise up to 300% in next 2-3 years
Millions eating food grown with polluted water, says UN report
Water everywhere, and not a drop to grow
West Bank struggles for water
Can the Dead Sea be brought to life?

archived August 20, 2008
	

Our American way of life is unsustainable - evidence

Chris Clugston, Energy Bulletin

Survey of the ecological and economic resources critical to the perpetuation of our American way of life.

archived August 18, 2008
	

Environment

Staff, Energy Bulletin

The oxygen crisis
Suffocating dead zones spread across world's oceans
"Green" land grab could sow seeds of new conflict

archived August 18, 2008
	

Population - August 14

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Population Bomb Author's fix for next extinction: educate women
Peak population
Social Scientists Seek Answer To Exploding Population

archived August 14, 2008
	

Deep thought - August 12

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Ehrlichs: Too many people, too much consumption
We must green the market
No longer a lunatic
The perpetual assault on ecological and economic reason.

archived August 12, 2008
	

Peak caviar

Ugo Bardi , The Oil Drum: Europe

Once, black caviar from the Caspian Sea was ubiquitous in Russia in its typical blue cans. Now, it has disappeared. "Peak Caviar" has taken place around 1980 in Russia. ... "Peak Caviar" is another confirmation of how common the "Hubbert" behavior is. It doesn't matter if a resource is theoretically renewable, as sturgeons and whales are. If sturgeons or whales are killed much faster than they can reproduce, then they behave as a non renewable resource; just as crude oil.

archived August 5, 2008
	

Review: 'Plan C' by Pat Murphy and 'Small is Possible' by Lyle Estill

Frank Kaminski, Seattle Peak Oil Awareness (SPOA)

Pat Murphy’s Plan C is a rich treasury of practical suggestions for reducing fossil fuel consumption and fostering community cooperation—while Lyle Estill’s Small is Possible is an engrossing portrait of a small Southern town that is already taking these steps

archived July 26, 2008
	

Environment - July 15

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Forests to fall for food and fuel (RRI report)
Buying your own wood
Bulgarian eco town 'the biggest mistake of Norman Foster's career', say protesters

archived July 15, 2008
	

Could sustainability lead to an authoritarian future?

Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Those who imagine humans eventually returning to agrarian societies also often imagine that such societies have the potential to be much more democratic and egalitarian than our current world. But, among those who imagine what I'll call a sustainable industrial future, there is little discussion of future political arrangements.

archived July 13, 2008
	

Crisis & collapse - July 3

Staff, Energy Bulletin

New book from John Michael Greer: The Long Descent
A Crash course in burning bridges (Zachary Nowak interview)
Alex Steffen: Resilient community
The end Of civilization

archived July 3, 2008