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This guest post from Barath lays out a perspective on the interactions of climate change and peak oil — interactions in terms of people as well as substance.  My perspective from a few years ago might be of interest:  THE Progressive Crises: Global Warming and Peak Oil.  
I’ve been wondering for the past year about the [...]

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This guest post from scientist FishOutOfWater looks at the what might be the closest event in Earth’s history to what humanity, through its ever mounting carbon emissions, is rapidly heading the planet to …

The most precise study yet of the the earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, the end Permian, found that warming caused by [...]

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This guest post comes courtesy of Barath.

We’re at the end of economic growth as we know it.  Not everyone has realized this yet, but it has arrived nevertheless [see discussions here and here].
As gas prices remain high and climate chaos becomes ever more apparent, people and institutions are rightly argue ever more [...]

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Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF.
There has recently been a flurry of activism regarding regulatory approval of the “XL Pipeline” in support of bitumen production from Canadian Tar Sands. Along with hundreds arrested in front of the White House, this is an issue that has attracted substantial attention from a variety of bloggers.  [...]

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This guest post from Barath reviews key pitfalls and hurdles to deployment of clean energy systems
As gas prices remain high and climate chaos becomes ever more apparent, people and institutions are right to argue ever more insistently for a shift to alternative energy sources that are likely to be available for the long haul and [...]

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Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF.
I’ve written several times about the direct potential of the Steel Interstate project to cut our oil imports by 10% by getting long haul freight trucking off the road. It would at the same time relieve the crushing burden imposed by long haul trucking on our over-worked, under-maintained [...]

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This is a guest post from the very thoughtful citisven providing a window on how to accelerate two-wheels as a component of answering our economic, energy, and environmental challenges.

I went to a very interesting and inspiring presentation last week at San Francisco’s Public Library. The name of the event was Lessons from Amsterdam: How San [...]

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Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF.
We can tell that an energy policy is not aimed at ending our nation’s oil addiction in time when the speech presenting it follows up:
The United States of America cannot afford to bet our long-term prosperity, our long-term security on a resource that will eventually run out, and [...]

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