links for 2006-04-26
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A large well-annotated poster that shows world oil production from 1859 - 2050. Excellent illustration of Hubbert's Peak.
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"Today's Paul Reveres of "peak oil" aren't waiting for Washington to save us from apocalypse. They're already planting gardens and drafting city plans for the days when oil is gone."
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"In short, the transition to declining energy availability signals a transition in civilization as we know it."
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"Jane Jacobs, the urban expert and social activist who wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities, died Tuesday morning at Toronto Western Hospital after about a year of up and down health problems."
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"Collabulary, a portmanteau word combining “collaborative” and “vocabulary”, refers to a theoretical method of labelling and organising data by collaborative tagging." Coined by Alex Goodey, who works for a very large media company.
Posted by Gene Smith on Apr 26, 2006
