Energy for all is a critically important goal, but it will be very challenging to achieve in a world facing climate change and depletion of easily accessible fossil fuel resources.
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Somehow comedians can make us laugh about even the most serious of subjects like whether or not we are witnessing the end of the era of cheap oil.
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Through the application of the Transition Town approach, it could be possible to build back better after disasters such as the Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear accident.
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Interview with Tetsunari Iida, one of the top thought leaders on renewable energy in Japan and head of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies.
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If the aim is to build back better following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami then perhaps the goal should be to develop eco-towns or transition towns.
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Following the Fukushima nuclear accident and the subsequent planned power outages affecting large parts of eastern Japan, there are some voices calling for a review of national energy policy and for a shift in focus to renewable energy.
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It is possible that Japan’s post-tsunami response might help us to respond to peak oil.
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Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa have the potential to interrupt global oil supplies causing an Oil Shockwave.
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What is the best way to increase energy security in a country that has limited fossil fuel resources? Is nuclear power the answer? That is certainly the opinion of some sectors in Japan.
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New patterns of consumption are emerging that encourage people to share, rather than own everything.
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Climate fix by Roger Pielke, Jr. is a clever and beautifully ambiguous title for a book.
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The never-ending debate continues between those who warn that climate change is real and those who challenge these warnings.
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A little bit of light reading over the summer break on the future of human civilisation on Planet Eaarth.
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Renewable energy is breaking into the mainstream and hopefully driving forward the shift away from a world powered by fossil fuels.
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The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico taught us many hard lessons. Perhaps the most important is the fact that the world's remaining oil reserves are in difficult to get at locations.
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Totnes is one of the few towns that has taken the time to develop an energy descent plan. The aim is to reduce energy consumption over time and there to enhance the energy security of the town, while also shifting over to renewable energy.
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Survivalism, as a discourse, only had resonance with the elites of this world. That is because everybody else is just busy getting by.
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Second Harvest sends out food boxes to Japanese families that are struggling to make ends meet. They receive food donations from major supermarket chains and department stores.
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Perhaps we may never see the end of excessive consumption. However, it would be a start if everyone could just buy nothing one day each year.
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What are the options open to society in the advent that we see a decline in the availability of cheap oil? David Holmgren has developed four scenarios that could represent our collective energy future.
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