Attached to this post is a great essay about the psychological tricks people use to 'cope' with the prospect of a future that will not be how they grew up imagining it will be.

It's about climate change, but works just as well for peak oil.

It covers » Read more

Dmitry Orlov author of "Re-inventing Collapse" has published some very insightful material about adapting to post-collapse scenarios. Here is a copy of his speech in San Francisco 13 Feb, 2009.

As usual his commentary has many tips and tricks and is sprinkled with some hilarious caustic humour.

His blog is well worth bookmarking and checking about once a week.

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/

The document attached is 11pp has been formated in 11pt text for paper archive. » Read more

When people talk about the role of technology in the future, most of the time the technologies they have in mind are the flashy ones – that is, those that haven’t been around long enough to slip into the background texture of everyday existence. Especially in periods of decline, though, it’s far more likely to be the technologies so common they’re hardly noticed that determine, by their survival or disappearance, the fate of societies. » Read more

From Dan Denning in Colorado:

--While the financial empire burns, OPEC decides whether or not it's going to cut production today. Lower energy prices are about the only good news to come out of falling commodity and stock prices. But OPEC producers like Venezuela and Iran want the world's big oil cartel to cut production and put a floor under prices. » Read more