Beyond the headline, a really great overview of how globalization may well be entirely reshaped by energy constraints, for the betterment of local economies in places where manufacturing has been outsourced for years.

Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins sets out what Resilience 2.0 might look like.

The Transition Movement - a community-centered response to peak oil and climate change - has been described as "the biggest urban brainwave of the century." Join us to chat with its founder.

A village that was threatened by the expansion of Heathrow Airport in London became home to a squatted community garden. Here's how it happened.

A pioneer of peak oil community action sits down to talk with her mother about a previous crisis and how she survived it.

Value of Fossil Fuel Exports By Fuel, 1949-2010

New research rewrites our understanding of why no new coal deposits develop -- but offers hope for post-coal energy solutions.

Futurist Guy Dauncey acknowledges that the stakes are high and the challenges are enormous. Yet defeatism is not an option.

Bike-powered devices often feel like hippy gimmicks. Yet for some communities, they offer an important glimpse of more resilient technology.

Author, activist and post-carbon rabble rouser Richard Heinberg is also a dabbler in green building. Take a tour of his tiny hand-built backyard studio.

The problem is not too little oil, says a new IEA report, it's too much oil. And it illustrates why activists should not presume to know the future.

Growing bike sales, a boom in sharing, and an interest in growing your own food are ust some of the signs that we could be moving beyond our current energy paradigm. Add your own to the list.

The founder of the Transition Movment is out with another book. This time, he takes a global look at how grassroots community efforts may provide a blueprint for systemic, cultural change.

The Oil Drum is a website published by the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future, a non-profit that conducts research and educates the public about energy issues and their impact on society.

This rapper nails it, imho.

It seems to be following the same path as Peak Oil, and happy days are here again.

We are often called wet blanket party poopers when it comes to holiday traditions, but maybe we are right.

We have lots of stuff, it's just unevenly distributed.

It actually won't take that much to reduce oil demand enough to cause serious trouble.

Peak oil used to be about running out of supply; now some think that we will run out of demand. The oil companies will ensure that we never run out of demand.

It takes a lot of metal to make this stuff.

The tiny, flexible solar cells can be integrated into objects of any shape or size.

Zero Mass Water's SOURCE device is a rooftop solar device that produces water instead of just electricity.

The unicorn of cheap clean home energy will most likely be found in an affordable solar roof that doesn't look like a solar roof, and that can pay for itself quickly. This startup may have developed it.

The unique paint could provide clean power to homes at a low cost.

This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery.

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.

The project will also include molten salt energy storage for 24 hour solar power.

The blocks could be part of the architecture of a building, generating more power than just rooftop panels.

The solar cell can be stretched, bent and compressed without substantially affecting performance.

The HELIOtube is a radical departure from conventional CSP technology, as it is based around tubes of inflatable plastic film.

Tesla's tiny house integrates solar power and its Powerwall home battery into a seamless system, and can be towed by the Model X.

While the world chases solar generating windows, we see how to do solar generating walls.

A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them.

When printed in a precise pattern onto carbon nanotubes on paper, these photosynthetic bacteria can produce electricity from sunlight, which could power biodegradable environmental and medical sensors.

The technology makes for better energy generation and a better window.

Is this totally silly and a waste of time and money, or is it a great leap forward? Or is it too soon to tell?

Pioneering solar house was designed and engineered by women

The device monitors the energy use of all the power loads in your house.

And now, in the 'Give me a break' category, the folks behind this garbage can scanner assume you can't make a grocery list on your own.

The fully automated aquaponics system grows lettuces, herbs and small fruits right in your kitchen.

The teen has been building the DIY microwave, hoping to solve many cooking problems with one device.

This WiFi- and Bluetooth-enabled smart bulb features plug-and-play functionality, doesn't require a central smart home hub, and is designed to last for "up to 50,000 hours."

It also comes with its own beer dispenser, built-in right in the couch.

A smart fridge might well make you fatter and poorer.

It learns your usage patterns but can do a lot more.

In which I try out a smart lighting system in my dumb home.

Who says you have to wait till New Year's to make a fresh start? No time's better than back-to-school season.

This home for a family of three and two cats has been built with efficiency, comfort and health in mind.

I knew that real-time data on our energy use would be interesting. But I wasn't sure how much it would actually save us.