Category: Energy
Regarding the energy crisis, Americans need to think globally and act locally
Think globally, act locally. That’s the message of this Common Dreams article, entitled “Energy-Addicted US Can Learn a Lot From Europe.” And yes, we can really learn a lot about energy from Europeans. Someday soon, we’re going to be having fantasies that we had their fleet of tiny cars, those same cars we laughed at [...]
How dangerous is it to ride a bicycle?
Here’s a thoughtful and well-researched article on the safety of bicycling by Alan Durning of Grist. Here’s his bottom line: Biking is safer than it used to be. It’s safer than you might think. It does incur the risk of collision, but its other health benefits massively outweigh these risks. And it can be made [...]
Two Americas: Two ways to play in water
Those who are truly interested in community-building (rather than striving to enhance their own status through resource-exhausting displays of material wealth) might want to take note of two ways city folks play in water. This idea occurred to me while walking through Tower Grove Park in St. Louis last week. Dozens of children splashed in [...]
More Cartoons
RJ Matson, Roll Call Mike Lester, The Rome News-Tribune Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune Postura Climatica Tab, The Calgary Sun The G-8 Dario Castillejos, El Imparcial de México Televictim Angel Boligan, El Universal, Mexico City [Admin note: All Cartoons are being published at DI with full permission by Cagle Cartoons]
Complacency II
I wrote about complacency once before. I focused on the complacency of most Americans in the face of the energy crisis that is clearly upon us. We have no assurance that gasoline won’t double or triple in price over the next five or 10 years, throwing our economy into a massive depression. With stakes like [...]
Housing and Transportation costs will keep the cities relatively affordable
Should you live in the suburbs or in the city to keep your housing and transportation costs in check? According to this interactive site developed by CNT and its collaborative partners, the Center for Transit Oriented Development, the answer is clear–live in the city. The bright red color-codings you’ll find when you check the 2008 [...]
Mr. Bodman, the energy-wasteful United States is part of the “world.”
The Bush Administration will do anything rather than admit its own faults. The U.S. is awash in wasteful cars, SUV, suburban sprawl and energy wasteful architecture. It would seen that the oil crisis is substantially the fault of the United States. That’s not the message the U.S. recently delivered to the “world,” however: Samuel Bodman [...]
“Clean coal” is a fantasy
If you stop to listen to the “solution” to the energy crisis, you’ll hear millions of people (including most politicians) reassuring themselves that coal will be the new oil, because the United States has plenty of it and because there is now a way to burn coal “cleanly.” This last claim is pure fantasy. There [...]
Complacency
I’ve been following various articles in my local newspaper and local television “news,” looking for some recognition of the seriousness of the problem with soaring energy prices. This problem is entirely predictable by reference to the simple economic relationship between supply and demand. We’ve got a finite diminishing supply of cheap energy sources on this [...]
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