tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098Sun, 19 May 2013 09:20:32 +0000Norman Lewiseco drivingFleetwood MacEric Newbywoodland skillsJames KunstlerKeynescortijo los pechosMarmiteChinaappropriate technologyDublinHomerHubberts PeakEther BooksEarthquakesTrade-offWinnie the PoohSomaliasustainabilitylight pollutionFaith no MoreGreenpeaceDoris LessingRob HopkinslambsMark LynasLiebig's LawevilZombiesHHGTTGThe AmnesiacConnie HedegaardBill McKibbenscrap yardsBill McKibbonglobal warmingbalticconsumerismUS electionRichard HeinbergCornwallTwyford DownviolenceFrilandsmuseetJohn Micheal GreerBuddhismnettle soupResurgenceHubbert's PeakNorman LamontSolonEROEIglobal financeHerodotusArnold SchwazerneggerPeak n'OilPost Glacial ReboundTolkienAthensice sculptureEnglandWyrdbikesPaul KrugmanPerumetal theftZen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenancedemocracyGreen ManNoam ChomskyTales From Fox WoodwormsMargaret Thatchernot a conspiracysupertankersNomaFrancis FukuyamaGreenlandRoger DeakinPeak FacebookcyclingObamapermacultureDalai LamaJohn Michael Greerhundredth monkeyfuel strikeCopenhagen Climate ConferenceMuseHeptonstallFukushimaCairn EnergyQENew Nordic foodJane LubchencoKenyaBTCVSøren KirkegaardDark EcologyAmbrose Evans PritchardGoogleThe Olive PressJimmy CarterMorrisseyTransition Free PressHelle Thorning SchmidtamagerRecyclingdeath of the internetdebtpeak oilmystery teachingsGreat DepressionBattle of CopenhagenfitnessLaosAdrian MoleTransitionPaul KingsnorthWorld PartyGeorge MonbiotWilliam Cattonbiker warsAugmented HumanityLord of the RingsR.E.M.The Mermaid PubAlan WattsCOP15Sean PennPeter PrinciplePhilip Carr-GommPhoney WarL.Ron HubbarddenmarkNorse mythologyThe Smithsenergy slavesFictionUgo BardiSandy ToksvigSci-fiOccupyCassandraAlmeriaSally BundockSci FiAndaluciaMohammed CartoonsFrederiksberg HaveJean Paul SartreColin CampbellCarolyn Bakerinternational financeLazy SunbathersBullitt Bikes2nd Law of ThermodynamicsHarald BluetoothupholsteryCopenhagen PostMargaret MoranTEOTWAWKIalpujarrasspaincompostGrowthPink Floydlanguage abuseChristianiaEckersbergshort story1970sJulian CopeEUcatabolic collapseBurning ManMervyn KingorgivaOvershootpeak energycapitalismDavid IckeCollapsepanic buyingmediaJonathon PorrittLeamington SpaPost Carbon InstituteAcid Factory ForestWill HuttonJonathan Porrittenergy supplyGreeceTitanicProgressLed Zeppelinlocal foodchicken mcnuggetsdoomersGandhienvironmentalismGeorge Osbornesolar powerCargo BikesNorth Sea oilDruidismPaganismresource availabilityAldous HuxleyMary PoppinsShimon PeresSpringArctic sea icemeat productionnuclear energyGrantaCattonSorte Jernhesthyper capitalismCopenhagenMethaneNihola BikesfarmingGeorge OrwellLa AlpujarraChris StewartHop PickingAhmedinejabHindenburg Disasterenergy pricesBritainOnce Upon a Time in KnoxvilleGermanyeconomicsNeil YoungBonderøvenenergy traderHM TreasuryGallows HumourKurt CobbJared DiamondRudolph Steinerpeak oil in DenmarkSpirit of AlbionsolarZX SpectrumThe end of the age of abundance and our response to ithttp://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)Blogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-1703190826898576238Sun, 19 May 2013 09:19:00 +00002013-05-19T11:20:32.981+02:00sustainability Carvaggio's David and Goliath Iota: noun The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (Ι, ι), transliterated as ‘i’. [in singular, usually with negative] an extremely small amount:nothing she said seemed to make an iota of difference Yesterday evening I attended a talk by a man who lives in the nearby village of Mousehole. The talk was about creating sustainable communities - whatever http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/SR6kHKq_j9I/making-iota-of-difference.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)0http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/05/making-iota-of-difference.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-5920704125112260481Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:35:00 +00002013-04-30T15:35:57.220+02:00 The second edition of the Transition Free Press is out now! What's more I'm honoured to have been asked to write the main article that appeared on the front page. The gist is that shale gas fracking in the US has led to a glut of cheap coal on world markets, which is being burned up by China and others. Next time anyone tells you shale gas is 'green' tell them that! In the course of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/B8bZ7fK183U/transition-free-press-issue-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)7http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/04/transition-free-press-issue-2.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-229850317755181865Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:20:00 +00002013-04-29T12:33:19.859+02:00spain I have just returned from Spain, where we had to go at short notice to give a farewell kiss to our stranded asset. Yes, our farmhouse, which had been the focus of all my dreams and efforts a few years back, was finally released from legal limbo land and the keys handed over to the happy new owners. We got back around half of what it cost us to buy it and do it up, but speaking with other http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/AmhgKy1L59Y/adios-to-orange-blossom-and-stranded.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)8http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/04/adios-to-orange-blossom-and-stranded.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-8254634247157197791Sat, 13 Apr 2013 07:03:00 +00002013-04-13T09:03:35.383+02:00Margaret Thatcherpeak oil <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/0ZMnuwprVDQ/thatcher-oily-lady.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)13http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/04/thatcher-oily-lady.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-9072700654361810203Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:09:00 +00002013-04-05T17:09:35.886+02:00 If you want to see a picture of what defying progress as defined in the modern sense looks like, see the picture above. I came across it today as I'm reading the classic Farmers of Forty Centuries by the American agronomist F.H.King. Published in 1911, King travelled to a China before petroleum powered agricultural machinery and artificial fertilizers. It's quite an amazing book, and in it http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/nvvLVGUJ5Qw/a-chinese-monument-to-progress.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)1http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-chinese-monument-to-progress.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-614820073111018887Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:54:00 +00002013-04-01T17:54:20.836+02:00global financelocal foodpeak oil <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/WM0vfAM-lCc/peak-oil-all-going-to-plan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)20http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/04/peak-oil-all-going-to-plan.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-4745992015024354858Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:58:00 +00002013-03-22T12:58:39.143+01:00 <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/4i4Z6mpO3xM/its-energy-stupid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)18http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/03/its-energy-stupid.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-5093656938432492288Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:20:00 +00002013-02-22T11:13:41.954+01:00media <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/ZE7VvB3APb8/here-is-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)25http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/02/here-is-news.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-4524205993077699598Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:25:00 +00002013-02-15T08:40:57.833+01:00North Sea oilGeorge Osborneeconomicspeak oil <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/6E2E75DgS84/our-bonzo-economies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)18http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/02/our-bonzo-economies.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-1708552290973469107Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:45:00 +00002013-02-10T17:45:37.205+01:00Tales From Fox Wood Okay, I have started a new blog in addition to 22 Billion Energy Slaves. Check it out at Tales From Fox Wood. As you'll immediately see if you have a look at it, it is nothing like this blog. For a start, it's mainly image based. The idea is for it to act as an inspiration for other people and to communicate a message to a wider audience. But don't worry, this blog will still be getting http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/hqIIlIQcv-0/tales-from-fox-wood.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)5http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/02/tales-from-fox-wood.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-8640336195282746421Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:20:00 +00002013-02-04T22:38:33.674+01:00 So today I sat in an empty room with white walls across the desk from a man in a grey suit. The only things between those four walls were a desk, a laptop computer with a small flashing light on the side of it, a miniature printer and two men sitting on plastic office chairs, one of which was me. The man was visiting from one of Denmark's largest banks and he was trying to get me to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/3yFg9d6Gp30/in-year-2043.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)34http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/02/in-year-2043.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-6280915239106234242Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:14:00 +00002013-02-02T21:46:50.315+01:00 <!--[if !mso]> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} <![endif]--> The cosmos. You are it. It is you. When you think about it, it's astonishing that you're alive. That I'm alive; that any of us is alive. The fact that only one of six million or so sperms just happened to reach the egghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/2idlRmjd4e8/the-wheels-of-destiny.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)0http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-wheels-of-destiny.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-840582840862372778Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:34:00 +00002013-01-30T22:57:28.284+01:00GreenlanddenmarkHelle Thorning Schmidt Okay, so it's something that has been bothering me for some time. In response to my last post some readers, on various sites, have said things along the lines of 'Denmark is a great place to be because everyone pulls together and is environmentally-minded, and it would be a big mistake to leave and go back to decrepit Britain.' Well, bull and red flag. That got my brain boiling and I have http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/9dCGMtuXxug/denmark-goes-nuclear.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)27http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/01/denmark-goes-nuclear.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-6209673262620854692Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:32:00 +00002013-01-21T22:10:32.195+01:00Britaindenmarkpeak oil <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/yIrq2qdjYIY/staring-at-sea.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)34http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/01/staring-at-sea.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-6346992548402981398Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:48:00 +00002013-01-18T13:52:51.845+01:00Transition Free Press There’s a lot of talk about ’the media’ these days and its seeming inability or unwillingness to join up all the dots when it comes to things like peak oil and climate change. Theories abound as to why this should be so, ranging from ‘The media is controlled by corporate evil,’ to ‘They are only reporting what people want to hear,’ and everything in between. We can argue about the reasons http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/L5UBMb_gccQ/newspaper-for-new-era.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)0http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/01/newspaper-for-new-era.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-1736215512947928081Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:52:00 +00002013-01-14T13:35:49.565+01:00Kenya <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/_BkCXJTxfIA/kenya-what-next.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)19http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/01/kenya-what-next.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-648006465124646385Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:56:00 +00002013-01-08T11:56:39.938+01:002nd Law of ThermodynamicsMusepeak oil A while back I wrote a series of half-serious posts entitled Peak n’Oil. In them I attempted to pick out some tracks to listen to as we tumble down from the heights of Hubbert’s Peak. At the time, as far as I was aware, nobody was actually writing songs about peak oil and the associated civilizational decay, so most of the tracks I picked dealt with it tangentially. All that has http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/f0tFst3sf60/the-2nd-law-of-thermodynamics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)3http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-2nd-law-of-thermodynamics.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-8119883865812432749Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:27:00 +00002013-01-03T22:32:14.026+01:00Paul KingsnorthDark Ecology "Earth Spirit" by Janine Donnellan Currently, I don't think there is anyone who better expresses how I feel about the world and the predicaments facing us than Paul Kingsnorth. I read this essay of his today, entitled Dark Ecology, and I think it is quite profound. In it, Paul expresses the sense of hopelessness he feels with an environmental momement that has gone awry - decrying the 'neo http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/jUglEKafudo/dark-ecology.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)10http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2013/01/dark-ecology.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-7213832063282550604Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:47:00 +00002012-12-31T11:51:02.511+01:00solar powerGermanyeco driving <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/SZVIQCkVfkw/vorsprung-durch-ecotechnik.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)8http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2012/12/vorsprung-durch-ecotechnik.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-5455506846865621228Tue, 25 Dec 2012 05:00:00 +00002012-12-25T06:00:00.554+01:00woodland skillsCornwall <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/ABeLfmOGVlI/the-great-escape-part-ix-earthed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)34http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-great-escape-part-ix-earthed.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-651886294021739617Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:32:00 +00002012-12-23T17:06:15.459+01:00Connie HedegaardBill McKibbonCOP15Jane LubchencoGeorge OrwellCopenhagen Climate ConferenceShimon PeresArnold SchwazerneggerAhmedinejab <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/oQrHRNMWXHY/the-great-escape-part-viii-hopenhagen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)4http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-great-escape-part-viii-hopenhagen.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-4389736383585787628Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:06:00 +00002012-12-19T22:10:20.785+01:00Mohammed CartoonsCopenhagenCopenhagen PostDalai LamaBill McKibben <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/qykQv96snO4/the-great-escape-part-vii-back-in-black.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)4http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-great-escape-part-vii-back-in-black.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-3394918238855047591Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:59:00 +00002012-12-18T22:33:15.501+01:00spainMargaret MoranThe Olive PressAndaluciaLa Alpujarra <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/__4Z2d6umFM/the-great-escape-part-vi-into-firing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)12http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-great-escape-part-vi-into-firing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-8018356248533737555Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:49:00 +00002012-12-15T09:49:37.043+01:00 <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false DA X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/JFbHZA9if1U/the-great-escape-part-v-out-of-frying.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)8http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-great-escape-part-v-out-of-frying.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584699251999622098.post-3672471136988940919Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:32:00 +00002012-12-14T14:32:01.456+01:00Eric Newbyenergy traderNorman LewisBTCVPeruLeamington Spa Norman Lewis. Chronicler of loss. Part I Part II Part III So we moved from London to Leamington Spa, a prettyish Victorian town in the Midlands conjoined with Warwick and its famous castle. We bought a small run-down terraced house in the cheap part of town with the aim of doing it up. Leamington Spa was the place to come to on holiday in Victorian times, long before the advent of foreign http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/22BillionEnergySlaves/~3/1YjSjMbHZjA/the-great-escape-part-iv-merry-dance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Heppenstall)1http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-great-escape-part-iv-merry-dance.html