peak oil

Looking Backwards: 'The End of Suburbia' 4 Years Later

10 April 2008 - 7:00am
The Tyee

When it came out in 2004, "The End of Suburbia" was required viewing for anti-sprawl activists. Now, four years later, the film is both quaint and frighteningly prophetic, writes Dorothy Woodend.

Who's Ready for Peak Oil?

24 March 2008 - 11:00am
Common Current

Report ranks largest 50 US cities by their readiness for $4+ a gallon gas and $100+ a barrel oil prices

South Parked

12 March 2008 - 9:00am
Alternet

James Howard Kuntsler muses on how the end of cheap oil will mean the parallel decline of the suburban sprawl economy of the South and its NASCAR subculture.

A Practical Need for Utopianism

6 February 2008 - 3:19pm
Who doesn’t love the Apocalypse? Society collapses, people run around in chaos, and we try to imitate the survival strategies culled from too many Hollywood end-of-the world blockbusters. Apocalyptic predictions have always been part of American culture, and why not?

Hybrid Nation?

5 September 2007 - 8:27am

My Toyota Prius just turned 100,000. That’s quite a milestone for a car and it may be a harbinger of things to come. Many planners are betting so-called “peak oil” will undermine our car culture because we won’t have the fuel to feed them. The history of my Prius suggests otherwise.