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james-g-workman's picture
Jun.18.2010
Hey, I just published an op-ed piece in AOL News on the links between BP's Deepwater oil spill offshore in salt water and the implications of a corrective energy policy that could pollute or dry up freshwater supplies inland. Here it is: In his Oval Office speech on the BP oil spill, President...
john-michael-greer's picture
Mar.24.2010
The last several posts here on <i>The Archdruid Report</i> have focused on the ramifications of a single concept – the importance of energy concentration, as distinct from the raw quantity of energy, in the economics of the future.  This concept has implications that go well beyond the...
john-michael-greer's picture
Aug.26.2009
The second law of thermodynamics, better known as the law of entropy, is the gold standard of physics -- the law you can rely on when everything else gets weird. Why, then, is it as welcome as a slug in a salad in the collective conversation about our energy future? The reason is profoundly human...