Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
James Howard Kunstler says that the airline industry is visibly disintegrating around us and it probably won’t be around in the form we know it for much longer. He predicts that air travel will be very different in as few as 36 months: cheap airfares for the broad middle class will not be available; long distance air routes might be temporarily nationalized; eventually, flying will become an increasingly elite activity for the wealthy. Episode 32.
While Bolivia has the largest deposit of lithium, you don’t have to go that far to find, and produce it.
Recession sending more students to comm. colleges
Some Thoughts on the Obama Energy Agenda from the Perspective of Net Energy
Stupid Senate tricks
In Bolivia, untapped bounty meets nationalism (lithium)
Peak lithium: will supply fears drive alternative batteries?
Lithium round-up
Auto sales are worst in 26 years
The high cost of bad driving habits
The Challenge of Sustainable Transportation: Prospects for Switzerland and the U.S
Airlines in financial crisis, aviation group says
Airlines report ‘shocking’ plunge in traffic
Empty seat travelling reconsidered
Peak personal automobile
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective.
Responding to peak oil will require reshaping our communities. These two interviews, taped in September 2008 at the ASPO-USA conference, are with Megan Quinn Bachman of Community Solutions, and Bryn Davidson of Dynamic Cities Project.
Action that President Barack Obama will take Monday to allow California and other states to require stricter tailpipe emissions and automobile fuel efficiency standards shouldn’t just please environmentalists. If you’re concerned about Peak Oil and the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, this is also a win for energy conservation.
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective
Obama Starts ‘Remaking America” By Tackling Banks, Afghanistan
Pile up! KU report makes commute even more depressing
Crop to Cuisine: The Politics of Food
Bill Would Allow Bicyclists to Legally Roll Through Stop Signs
Students, communities pay when schools cut busing
Expensive oil means end of roads – why include them in stimulus?
