Archive For The “Peak Oil” Category

Peak Oil – for businesspeople.

By | March 5, 2010

Below is a piece I wrote as a guest of Birds on the Blog. I found it an interesting challenge to write about a subject potentially so emotive in a way that, I hope, allows people who might be less aware of ecological concerns both to accept it and to find something of value in [...]

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Rediscovering Leadership

By | February 25, 2010

I wrote the following column for Sublime Magazine. Unfortunately, Jeremy Leggett wrote one that was remarkably similar. Mine’s better, though, of course! So I’m publishing it here. – – – – – For years we’ve been told that we can live with fewer and fewer limitations on our freedom and our consumption. Climate change and [...]

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Applied Hope

By | January 5, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the likeliest outcomes of the next century or so, and reflecting on how the possibilities they hold out seem to run the gamut from large improvements in the way we live now to total societal collapse. Duncan Campbell, host of the Living Dialogues podcasts, is a keen proponent [...]

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LYRICS // Vonnegut’s Blues (2006)

By | June 18, 2008

An early attempt at a political song with Shelf Life and our first original song written together. ‘Vonnegut’s Blues’ was written as a (loosely disguised) diatribe about the Bush administration, inspired by a piece written by the late…

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