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"If we cut the average speed of all vehicles by half, fuel consumption would decrease by a whopping 75 percent."

"Days of world consumption: A warning label for oil and gas discoveries\nby Kurt Cobb "\n"We should leave fossil fuels before they leave us."

"A sustainable, secure, efficient Britain can be powered without relying on fossil fuels or nuclear power." Summary from zerocarbonbritain2030 on Renewables

"zerocarbonbritain2030 provides political and economic solutions to the urgent challenges raised by the climate science, outlining how we can transform the UK into an efficient, clean, prosperous zero-carbon society."

summary of zerocarbonbritain report 2010 for Climate Science

French Graduates blog with upto date collection of material, headlines and research

"China or the U.S.: which will be the last nation standing? by Richard Heinberg Silly me. Here I had thought that world leaders would want to keep their nations from collapsing."

Book review of " Bottleneck: Humanity's Impending Impasse", William Catton, Jr. dispenses with "the happy chapter" altogether and simply gives us the grim prognosis. Human society is now on an unstoppable trajectory for a significant die-off. Not cheerful stuff, but a viewpoint non-the-less.

"It's very permacultural to develop skills that will connect you more deeply to land, home, and community. And sometimes the skills that we gained in search of self reliance are the same ones we need to be more community-reliant. But self reliance, as a goal in itself, is a tired old myth that needs to die. It's unpermacultural."

Interesting set of comments. Nothing is that simple. Every product may have its downside. Where is the balanced argument?