Introduction

Whole Systems Approach to Ecological Design

Appropriate Technology: Water

Organic Agriculture and Local Food

Appropriate Technology: Energy

Green Building & Retrofitting

1.Whole Systems Approach to Ecological Design
Ecological Designs Master Planning Climate Change & Peak Oil

Peak Oil

At the same time as the climate is changing, we are also at a time when oil production is peaking and production and consumption will begin the inevitable decline.  The graph aside gives a number of scenarios and the major differences are between the timing of the decline.

A good website is www.theoildrum.com.  It discusses ideas related to peak oil, sustainable development and growth, and the implications of these ideas on politics, economics, and so on.

Peak oil is driving energy prices higher, while at the same time we need to cut our consumption of fossil fuels to save carbon.  For communities, technologies are becoming more viable financially, such as biomass heating, heat pump cooling and local generation of energy.

 

Trendlines Peakoil

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The Oil Drum

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