Transition Voice

The magazine on peak oil and the Transition movement

  • Home
  • Books
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Spirit
You are here: Home / Archives for energy efficiency

It’s Time Again to Worry about Heating Costs

By Erik Curren | November 6, 2015

energy savings

If you care about climate change and peak oil, you're always thinking about ways to get off of fossil fuels around the world and to save energy around your house. Home energy tweaking can become an obsession. It has for me. Just take light bulbs for example. It seems that only a few years ago, I swapped out all our old incandescents for compact fluorescents that used less … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: energy conservation, energy efficiency, infographic

Business leaders urge Obama to act for clean energy

By Vicki Lipski | February 5, 2014

solar panels sky

When it comes to climate and energy, some business leaders are catching on, even in the United States. On January 21, a report authored, in part, by over 100 academics, energy experts, government officials, and business leaders called upon the president to address climate change by taking measures that do not require congressional approval. Spearheaded by the Center for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Barack Obama, Bill Ritter, Colorado State University, electric utilities, energy efficiency

The Cotton Gin Paradox

By Erik Curren | April 24, 2013

cotton gin with slaves

It's not hard to see that, when cars get better gas mileage, people feel that they can afford to drive more. Or that consumers think they can afford a bigger refrigerator if it's Energy Star certified to use less electricity. Blame it on Jevons's Paradox that increasing the energy efficiency of machines doesn't necessarily decrease the total amount of energy people use, but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Cotton, cotton gin, Eli Whitney, energy efficiency, Jevons Paradox, Slave Labor, slavery, technology

Climate hell and saving energy: A few words to the wise

By Staff Reports | June 14, 2012

demonstration against climate change

Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that this summer would be consistent with this past winter that wasn’t -- that is, hot. I double-checked by looking at the data from the Arctic. As expected, ice melt was accelerating faster than average. A few days after that confirming data came through, Jon Gottschalck, head of operations of NOAA’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: Arctic ice melt, energy efficiency, hottest year on record, NOAA

Depending on the kindness of strangers

By Erik Curren | June 6, 2011

world beachball upsidedown

"Most of what you have been and are being told about economics is simply wrong," says Dmitry Orlov. "It is ideology and fake religion, not science." In "The Twilight of the Antipodes and the Cultural Flip," a presentation he gave recently at a conference in northern California, Orlov offers a disturbingly rational picture about what's wrong with our economy and what we can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Dmitry Orlov, energy efficiency, local economy

Next Page »

Most Popular Stories

  • Earth shelters: Building an eco-friendly bunker
  • Five Bummer Problems that Make Societies Collapse
  • Farewell to empire
  • American kids in the Age of Oil: 'Economically worthless but emotionally priceless'
  • The daily grind, Amish style
  • Morality in the sphere of education
  • Still positive after all these years, Tony Robbins, then and now
  • A “Gospel of Wealth” for the 21st century
  • Popular holistic health site veers into climate science denial
  • Reassessing Arctic oil
  • Home
  • Books
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Spirit
  • About us
  • Resources
  • Contact

© 2021 Transition Voice · Web design by Curren Media Group · Log in