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3 steps to raise a happy peak oil kid

By April 12, 2013
a mother and a child in a garden

Your baby absorbed so many early-learning podcasts in utero that when she's born she doesn't know if she's supposed to be Baby Einstein, Baby Mozart or Baby Bill Gates. Your husband or wife had to call in some big favors to reserve little Emma or Alessandra a place in a top preschool. After that, you've got her future all planned out: a decent gifted program, Yale undergrad, Wharton MBA, partner at Goldman Sachs. If this is your parenting style, then Honeycomb Kids: Big Picture Parenting … [Read more...]

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The real war on Christmas and why it matters

By December 6, 2012
Bill O'Reilly

Christmas season is making me tired. Every year, I get tired of hearing jaunty, NutriSweet-y jingles that sound like they're sung by Hello Kitty touted as "Chrismas Carols" and played earlier and earlier in the fall. "Here Comes Santa Claus" on November 11 — it's a revolting enough song if you have to hear it once. But do we really need to endure this particular brand of nausea for a full six or seven weeks? And I'm just as tired of hearing Fox News announcers sound more and more shrill … [Read more...]

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Presents or presence?

By December 14, 2011
baby in a snowsuit on a sled

Does anyone else find Thanksgiving and Christmas a bit of a contradiction? We spend a couple of days focused on Thanksgiving; usually setting up the menu, grocery shopping, or juggling travel plans for a day spent with our families. What started as a day for family and gratitude, is often replaced with family watching football on TV, mapping Black Friday’s shopping spree, or eating turkey sandwiches while camped out overnight in the parking lot of a big box store to be first in line to … [Read more...]

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Christmas plan for a peak oil pilgrim

By December 1, 2010
Santa rides the bullet.

As a peak oil pilgrim, the holidays are surely going to be different now. The ways we celebrate the season, the parties and family get-togethers are forever changed for me: they've taken on a sort of surreal, over-the-top quality endemic to societies of excess. Perhaps it is the all-consuming nature of the barrel beast: that virtually everything we do, touch, watch, eat, drink, buy, and read is produced and/or propelled by oil. No matter how you feel about peak this or that, we all crave … [Read more...]

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