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Follow the energy to find the money

By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen | February 17, 2015

peat bricks

While the phrase "follow the money" is common parlance in progressive circles these days, a more relevant line of investigation for these peak oil times of ours might be, I think, "follow the energy." For as it is, the suggestion of "following the money" generally refers to something like following the trail of bread crumbs all the way to where the buck stops, one eventually … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy, Energy Tagged With: finance, fossil fuels, slavery

A new financial system, for the people

By Staff Reports | February 4, 2013

pile of U.S. currency

Over the past four years we've been let down by our banks. A better system would be a democratic finance model, thinks British anthropologist Bruce Davis. After developing peer-lending platform Zopa, Bruce teamed up with renewable energy expert Karl Harder to launch Abundance Generation in the U.K. earlier in 2012. The idea was to go one step further than just lending, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: finance, peer-to-peer lending, United Kingdom, Wall Street

Collapse could happen, literally, overnight

By Erik Curren | November 7, 2011

debit card

In the granddaddy of all collapse books, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon gave ancient Rome a full 500 years to deflate. Half a millennium for any society to collapse always seemed a bit too generous to me. Heck, American civilization has only been around for about 300 years. So I never assumed that we'd have a few … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: apocalypse, collapse, finance, post-peak fiction, Shut Down, WR Flynn

Seriously?! They gave this chick her own boob-themed show

By Lindsay Curren | October 7, 2011

Idiocracy Fox News

The mainstream media has been slow to give the Occupy Wall Street protesters their due. And while the New York Times has been criticized roundly for missing the point, columnists Paul Krugman, Nicholas Kristof and even business writer Andrew Ross Sorkin have accurately portrayed the occupation as a serious movement against financial inequity and government corruption. Yet, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: bailout, business, CNN, college kids, erin burnett, finance, Goldman Sachs, media bias, Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street

How to talk about the end of growth: interview with Richard Heinberg

By Lindsay Curren | August 26, 2011

Author Richard Heinberg

Just after the release of his newest book, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, I sat down with Richard Heinberg via Skype to get his take on what needs to happen to shift the conversation on peak oil and peak debt. The interview follows. LC: Thanks for taking some time to talk to me again. RH: Sure. LC: Did you consult an astrologer on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: economic growth, finance, interview, interviews, recession, Richard Heinberg, Stars of Peak Oil

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