The Well Run Dry

During the last century, Western culture imported from Asia a number of Oriental concepts of physiology which have influenced our understand...

Explosion Kitty walking away from the Zombie  Apocalypse  And now in this post we return to the roots of this blog (and we sho...

After yesterday's post, I thought about further information on the Paris attacks.  This was information I had not considered while writi...

I've been busy. That is why I haven't been blogging over the last six months. Ironically, my busy-ness has consisted of me scr...

Our knowledge of history is under threat in the United States – especially our accurate knowledge of recent history. An accurate knowled...

Several thinkers and activists in the “post-Peak preparedness” camp have written about how local communities can become more resilient an...

There are many basic presuppositions, conclusions and concerns within the circle of well-known figures studying Peak Oil, ecological degra...

I won't have very much time on the weekends for deep, analytical posts for a while. The summer school session has just started and I ...

On Memorial Day I posted a rather provocative question to the Oil Drum website regarding the efforts of British Petroleum to stop the Dee...

I was sitting in a job safety training meeting this morning. The trainers challenged us all to examine our attitudes toward jobsite safet...

This month, it was announced that an island in the Bay of Bengal was swallowed up by the sea, due to rising sea levels caused by climate...