Posts Tagged ‘Transition’

• Readings: Tuesday 23 February 2010
  Gregor Macdonald, February 23rd, 2010 at 10:30 am, Comments: 0

  The Bloom Box – An Energy Breakthrough?: Big Gav, The Oil Drum.
  The New Poor – Million of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs: Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times.
  The Long-Term Employment Bust: David Goldman, First Things.
  America’s Wind Energy Triples in New Estimate: Alexis Madrigal, WIRED.
  The Third Industrial Revolution: Jeremy Rifkin, The New Scientist.
  Be Lucky – [...]

• Podcast Picks: Friday 19 February 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, February 19th, 2010 at 5:05 am, Comments: 0

  The Grand Energy Transition: interview with Robert Hefner III, Financial Sense Newshour.
  What’s Next for the Stimulus Bill: roundtable with Grabell, Radnovsky, Baker, Riedl, Dianne Rhem WAMU Radio.
  Buzzing With Coffee Beans: food commodity documentary series from ABC/BBC, ABC Australia 360 Documentary.
  Debating a Nuclear Revival: roundtable with Lyman, Power, and Wilson, WBUR On Point Radio.
  Freefall: America, Free [...]

• Readings: Tuesday 02 February 2010
  Gregor Macdonald, February 2nd, 2010 at 8:19 pm, Comments: 0

  L.A. Takes a Shine to Another Owens Valley Product – Sun (solar): Phil Willon, The Los Angeles Times.
  PHOTOS: Taking a shine to the Owens Valley’s sun:  Brian Vander Brug, The Los Angeles Times.
  Paying Zero for Public Services (Zero Rupee Notes):Fumiko Nagano, blogs.worldbank.org.

  The Global Debt Bomb: Daniel Fisher, Forbes.com.

  On Proliferation, Climate, and Oil: Solving for Pattern: [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Saturday 14 November 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, November 14th, 2009 at 11:39 pm, Comments: 0

  As the decade prepares to end I am not able to find a single example of serious scholarship that effectively refutes both peak oil as a general concept, or, that refutes the assertion that world oil production is currently peaking. To be quite honest, the field of energy studies is poorer not richer as a [...]