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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Peak Oil

Forecasts for the arrival of peak oil around the globe. (Image credit: Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) at Wikimedia Commons, free license to publish.)I’ve recently witnessed a few scenes of life after peak oil, and it isn’t necessarily the Apocalypse.

In Juneau, Alaska, for example, people are proving it’s possible to change our energy-hogging ways literally overnight and still keep a community up and running. The inspiration in their case: an avalanche that severed the hydroelectric power lines serving the remote Alaska capital, cutting off about 80 percent of the city’s available electricity.

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