Blogs about: Natural Gas Peak Production

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Fossil Fuel Whack-A-Mole

“I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil … The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.” Bob Lutz, GM Vice-Chairman, in Newsweek magazine, 2007 “Our view i… more »

The Sustainable Home Blog

Fossil Fuel Whack-A-Mole — 2 comments

John Van Doren wrote 3 weeks ago: “I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil … The electrification of the au … more »

Tags: coal-fired power plants, Peak Oil, electric car, hybrid plug-in, compressed air car, hydrogen fuel cell car, Suburbia, suburban sprawl

Natural Gas Shortages and the coming CHILL in America's Living Rooms

John Van Doren wrote 1 month ago: Conventional, easy-to-get natural gas in the U.S. has already peaked and natural gas from all source … more »

Tags: central heating and air conditioning, Energy efficiency, arctic gas pipeline, liquid natural gas, natural gas fertilizer, natural gas heating, natural gas peak, natural gas shortages

State of the Union 2010

John Van Doren wrote 3 months ago: “[The President] shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union an … more »

Tags: Global Warming, Sustainable Design, Green Building, Energy efficiency, Building Codes, sustainable economics, Net Zero Energy Home, Peak Oil, State of the Union

Peak Oil, Food, and Eleanor Roosevelt — 1 comment

John Van Doren wrote 4 months ago: “No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between man and a plot of land. … more »

Tags: Peak Oil, Sharon Astyk, Victory Garden, permaculture, Eleanor Roosevelt

Solar Water Heating – An Essential Element of our Sustainable Future — 3 comments

John Van Doren wrote 7 months ago: “Solar water heaters are one of the most commercialized renewable energy technologies in the worl … more »

Tags: Global Warming, Green Building, solar hot water, Sustainable Design, sustainable economics

How our Homes became the Equivalent of a Hummer — 9 comments

John Van Doren wrote 7 months ago: “In 1946, when the American post war housing boom started, the average house was 1100 square feet … more »

Tags: Sustainable Design, Energy efficiency, Building Codes, Peak Oil, central heating and air conditioning, solar hot water, Fannie Mae, Residential Mortgage, home sizes

"One Last Chance" for a Sustainable Future? — 3 comments

John Van Doren wrote 8 months ago: “It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it here on the Earth, som … more »

Tags: Carrying capacity, Energy efficiency, Net Zero Energy Home, passive solar design, Peak Oil, photovoltaic, Sustainable Design, Zero Energy Buildings

Fantasy Economics and the Sustainable Society Revolution

John Van Doren wrote 8 months ago: “Macroeconomic theory in our text books conveniently behaves as if the ecosystem does not exist al … more »

Tags: central heating and air conditioning, Energy efficiency, Global Warming, Green Accounting, Green Building, Net Zero Energy Home, Peak Oil, Steady state economics, Sustainable Design

Definitions of Sustainability and a Steady State World

John Van Doren wrote 9 months ago: 
”…the world’s richest 20 per cent of the population consume 86 per cent of its goo … more »

Tags: AIA, Brundtland Commission, Carrying capacity, Energy efficiency, Energy Star, Global Warming, Green Accounting, LEED for Homes, Net Zero Energy Home

Energy, Carrying Capacity, and Sustainable Building — 1 comment

John Van Doren wrote 11 months ago: “By their own follies they perished, the fools.” 
- Homer, The Odyssey The growth of civil … more »

Tags: Building Codes, Eleventh Hour, Energy efficiency, Energy Star, Global Warming, Green Building, LEED for Homes, Net Zero Energy Home, Peak Oil

Musings on the Meaning of "Sustainable" and "Green"

John Van Doren wrote 11 months ago: The current state of our green, sustainable building “movement” may amount to nothing more than … more »

Tags: Bartlett Laws, Building Codes, Energy efficiency, Green Building, Net Zero Energy Home, Peak Oil, Sustainable Design

Facing a Painful Future Reality of Sustainability — 3 comments

John Van Doren wrote 11 months ago: “People cannot stand too much reality” - Carl Jung I’ve been musing lately about exactly w … more »

Tags: Building Codes, coal-fired power plants, Energy efficiency, Energy Star, Global Warming, Green Building, LEED for Homes, Net Zero Energy Home, Peak Oil

Global Warming, Peak Oil, and Pearl Harbor

John Van Doren wrote 1 year ago: We now know that energy use by housing in the U.S. accounts for about 21% of green house gas emissio … more »

Tags: Global Warming, Green Building, Peak Oil, Sustainable Design


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