Peak Oil Review – May 14
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
Also, a commentary by Matthew R. Simmons: “Gasoline Picture Looking Grim for Dog Days of Summer.”
Renewables – May 14
Amish in Ohio embracing solar power
Wind farms’ deadly reputation hard to shift
Has the algae cavalry arrived?
Food & agriculture – May 14
Terra Preta in Nature: A handful of carbon
New York barges into sustainable urban farming
Milk production peaking
Energy producers – May 14
Political storm over Canadian energy security
Tories storm out of meeting on sharing energy with U.S
Iraqis resist U.S. pressure to enact oil law
Energy policy – May 14
Many share hope gas prices will rise
Sale of carbon credits helping land-rich, but cash-poor, tribes
Can capitalism be green?
Bloomberg outlines national energy plan
Murdoch: I’m proud to be green
Drive to cut emissions creates jobs engine
Solutions & sustainability – May 14
8am: Shower. Save the water. Save the planet
Heinberg, Pollan, Kingsolver on PO and sustainable food
Mental health benefits of natural, low-cost ecotherapy
52 Weeks of Energy Cuts: #3 Make it yourself
Climate – May 14
MIT: Planning for a climate-changed world
Deforestation: Hidden cause of global warming
Climate change to force mass migration
Mayors think green at N.Y. summit
IPCC 4th Report: Mitigation of climate change
U.S. aims to weaken G-8 climate change statement
Peak oil – May 14
Depletion levels in Ghawar
Latest presentations from Simmons
Oilwatch Monthly from ASPO-Netherlands
PFC Energy says there is plenty Of oil
Kunstler: Rigged to blow
Too much energy is bad for you
Peak Oil, Collapse, and the Olduvai
Saudi Aramco to Reduce Arab Light Oil Exports to Asia in June
Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest state oil company, will cut Arab Light crude oil exports to Asia for the first time in at least three months as part of an overall supply reduction to the region.
Transport – May 13
“Car brain” confesses, pleads: ‘make driving annoying and expensive’
Public purse props up fossil fuel industries in Australia
Monbiot: Air traffic out of control
Flights reach record levels despite warnings over climate change
Local efforts – May 13
Rotterdam wants to halve CO2-emissions
Brisbane: Back to the drawing board for PO and climate change
UK”s Brown to build five eco towns
Local Oregon experts discuss ways to stop climate change
Peak oil and coal – May 13
Daily Mail: Oil-mageddon
Pickens: A future with less oil and more hard choices
Jerome a Paris:
China’s coal production to peak in a few years
Energy news portal – Global Oil Watch
