Make Your Own Homemade Natural Dyes
Woody Harrelson's view of hemp farming: strong fibres, and cuts pesticides
From Recycled Scraps To Museum-Quality Quilts

Markets foresee global contraction
The Borg: a financial allegory
Energy/credit/currency crisis on TOD
Kunstler: All fall down
Chris Martenson on the current financial crisis

Britain risks US rift in war against Taliban
Pakistan facing bankruptcy
Pakistan blames US raids for hotel bombing
Index on Afghanistan and Pakistan

This time, the Masters of the Universe have blown up so spectacularly that they are taking down not just their own mindless activities, but also the whole banks with them, leaving no money for normal lending activity. And here I am, the sorry worker of a bank ... having been told that I should tell my clients that there is no money for them for the rest of the year. No money for wind farms.

If, as seems likely, the omnibus financial bailout does little good and the world goes into a prolonged recession, then we probably are on the peak/plateau of world oil production right now. Demand will drop, production will be slowed, and new multi-billion dollar oil projects that are not already well underway will be delayed or cancelled due to lack of demand or capital to pay for them.

I have in mind… the one example known to me of an American community of small family farmers who have not only survived but thrived during some very difficult years: I mean the Amish. I do not recommend, of course, that all farmers should become Amish, nor do I want to suggest that the Amish are perfect people or that their way of life is perfect. What I want to recommend are some Amish principles

Marrying energy demand and supply
Back to the Dark Ages: National Grid raises the spectre of blackouts this winter
Europe faces the challenges ahead

World Bank's 'Green" Energy Funding Up 87 Percent
Study Eases Fear About Wind Farm Threat to Birds
Wind power and feed-in tairffs in Ukraine (audio)
Dutch city kept warm by hot-water mines

NYT's Friedman discusses solutions to world's climate, energy, and population problems (video & transcript)
Politics of drilling, financial bailout heading into elections (video & transcript)
Fukuyama: The Fall of America, Inc.
Ok, Now What?
Atlanta Q&A: Why gasoline supplies went south

"Heading Out" on ASPO-USA Sacramento
The Oil Drum honored at ASPO-USA Sacramento
Peak oil and retirement