Beechworth Sustainability

Dr Michael Lardelli from the University of Adelaide looks at how the bulk of the world's oil production comes from a relatively small number of very large fields discovered decades ago. The rate of world oil production has been maintained at current levels only by finding and bringing on line an increasing number of smaller fields, but the financial cost and the energy required to find and develop these new fields is constantly increasing. According to Dr Lardelli the so-called peak of oil production was actually in 2008.

Read more here: http://energybulletin.net/52667

The answer might be in our brains............

Researchers in the UK published a study this week that shows insights into how the brain behaves when people asked to make a judgment are given two options: stick with a default response (ie, do nothing) or take action to indicate a different response. Their finding: the more difficult the decision, the more likely it was that subjects would stick to the status quo.

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Creating a new kind of economy is crucial if we want to tackle climate change and avoid the mounting social problems associated with the rise of economic inequality. The Great Transition provides the first comprehensive blueprint for building an economy based on stability, sustainability and equality.

Read more here: http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/great-transition