Resilience.org Staff

Shale gas, tight oil, and fracking - May 21

•At margins of shale oil boom, a tempered euphoria •Fracking envy •Radioactive fracking debris triggers worries at dump sites •Poland’s shale gas hopes suffer blow •Poland Shale Boom Falters as State Targets Higher Taxes •The fight for North Dakota's fracking-water market

Deep thought - May 20

• Some of My Best Friends Are Germs • Bye-Bye Baby Boomers • The repentant environmentalist: Part 3 • Thanks for coming • Needed: An ecosocialist cosmovision

Peak oil - May 17

•Supply shock from North American oil rippling through global markets •The IEA Says Peak Oil Is Dead. That’s Bad News for Climate Policy •Saudis welcome US shale boom •China Seen Boosting Emergency Oil-Storage Capacity, IEA Says •Peak oil, climate change and pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict •Avoiding the 'Energy Abyss' •Shell Targeted With BP …

Reexamining Rationing

 Recent interviews with Stan Cox author of Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing and book excerpt.

Water - May 14

•Water increasingly crucial in energy policies, experts say •Acidification: the latest unknown for stressed Arctic ecosystem •Rivers Carry Away Waste Heat Form Power Plants at a Cost to the Environment •Safe drinking water disappearing fast in Bangladesh •Land O' Lakes: Melting Glaciers Transform Alpine Landscape •Our Earth Hangout: Clean Water for All

Food & agriculture - May 14

•Science as Dialogue: What My Garden and I Are Discussing in 2013 •Biofuels a big cause of famine •Food Price Inflation as Redistribution: Towards a New Analysis of Corporate Power in the World Food System •Over half the world's population could rely on food imports by 2050 – study •Agriculture and Livestock Remain Major Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

WEBINAR: ‘Local Economic Blueprints: pioneering or pointless?’

 Join Rob Hopkins, Molly Scott Cato, Tony Greenham, Fiona Ward and Nigel Jump for a live discussion.

Peak oil - May 10

•Interview: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble •Availability of oil in the long term is dubious, as oil prices could in fact retreat, helping the tanker market •Shale Oil And Gas: The Contrarian View

Natural gas & fracking

•Fracking is draining water resources, especially in the West •Whatever you think of fracking, this isn't the way forward •Are Methane Hydrates Really Going to Change Geopolitics? •California Fracking Rules Plan Stirs Trade Secrets Fight

Climate, politics & money - May 6

•White House warned on imminent Arctic ice death spiral •Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volume 1979-2012 •San Francisco city council asks pension fund to divest its oil shares •The giants of the green world that profit from the planet's destruction •Even A Moderate Price For Carbon Pollution Has a Big Impact On U.S. Emissions •How climate scientists are being …