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China and the world - Nov 18
-Obama and Hu aim to agree greenhouse gas targets-China's empty city-China's Blunt Talk for Obama-Market cornered for rare minerals-Chinese credit card debt mountsread more
View ArticleHow Relocalization Worked
One of the most rarely used resources for relocalization projects is the fact that our species has been this way before -- the twilight years of many other civilizations featured the breakup of...
View ArticlePeak Oil: The Eventual End of the Oil Age
We cannot be lulled into a false sense of security: though oil prices have declined from their historic highs, there is little doubt that peak oil is real. A 2008 research project completed at...
View ArticleClimate finance, the new fiscal frontier
Not deterred by the international financial crisis which became widespread in 2008 or by the many recessionary patterns that grip most country economies, financial engineers are massing in København to...
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Throwing our energy at impossible dreams...
"as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold"read more
View ArticleHousebreaking the Corporations
The role of corporate influence in maintaining an increasingly dysfunctional status quo has been much discussed in peak oil circles, and various remedies proposed. The irony here is that effective...
View ArticleBecoming a Third World Nation
Amid today's varying attempts to imagine a postpetroleum America, one very likely equivalent has received little attention -- the impoverished, dysfunctional nations of the contemporary Third World....
View ArticleRiddles in the Dark
One aspect of the predicament of industrial society too rarely grasped is the impact of the end of the age of cheap abundant energy on labor costs, wages, and standards of living. In a world where...
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Asia's epic urban sagas
South Asians are seeing more work on the ground and hearing more policy announcements about urban development than ever before. For many who live in and around towns and cities in Bangladesh, Pakistan...
View ArticleGovernment investigates resource shortages
The British government is making a review of current, ongoing global shortages of vital raw materials. This will go beyond the notion of peak oil to look at the supply of a series of key natural...
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