Green Options » energy resources http://greenoptions.com/tag/energy-resources Posts tagged 'energy resources' Mon, 19 May 2008 16:11:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Peak Oil http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/19/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-peak-oil/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/19/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-peak-oil/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 16:11:13 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/19/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-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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