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Navigating the Transition
By Ron Slabaugh, Ph.D.

Vampire Electronics

I got this term from a Bill McKibben article in some publication or other—I can’t remember where, he shows up in so many magazines. Thank you, Bill, for all you do.
I’d known about the phenomenon long before I had the name and I’d already done something about it in my house (more about that later). But the term is so descriptive!
I first ran across it when I read the statement: “75% of the electricity used in consumer electro… Continue

Navigating the Transition
By Ron Slabaugh, Ph.D.

Recreation in a Post Oil World

Everything in my life these days goes through the “Energy Descent” filter. That is, as I look at various aspects of my life--my food, my travel, my entertainment, my recreation, and so on--I ask myself, “What will this be like in a future when energy will be much more expensive and I will have to live using less energy?” In today’s column I reflect on recreation in an energy constrained world.

I’ve been a p… Continue