Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Pentagon study: oil reliance strains military
Transforming the way the DOD looks at energy (online report)
The military – reducing GHG by 100%
Climate study could focus on U.S. defense
Impact of climate change on U.S. security
Interview with Jeremy Gilbert, former Chief Petroleum Engineer at BP: “I expect to see a peak sometime before 2015, but I don’t think we’ll see a simple maximum followed by a decline. I foresee a series of maxima, each followed by a brief decline.”
Questioning the compost supply chain
100-mile diet: ‘Food mile’ foibles.
As the climate warms, gentler plants move in
Please Lord, not the bees
Astyk: No more scrod
Could the mysterious agricultural techniques of an ancient Amazonian civilization make New Zealand farming more competitive?
Mediterranean nations face up to climate change
City wakes up to economic threat of warming
Monbiot: Rich world’s policy on greenhouse gas now seems clear
Artefacts in ocean data hide rising temperatures
Recent climate observations compared to projections (Projections may have understated change)
NYT: The silver lining to impending doom
Heinberg: Talking ourselves to extinction
Peak oil, carrying capacity and overshoot
The sprirituality of collapse
Power station harnesses Sun’s rays
Wind farms may not lower air pollution
Libertarian Stossel:
Sacrificing our children to the ‘Corn God’
The book that oil companies don’t want you to know about: Alcohol Can Be A Gas
Kuwait oil reserves secret for national security
Have the Kurds abandoned hope of a stable Iraq?
How much Iraqi crude is being stolen?
The other oil-rich gulf
Is U.S. natural gas headed toward excess supply?
Where gasoline is cheap
Interview with Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil On the Brain
The call on OPEC?
Failing the energy IQ test
Exxon Mobil says PO unlikely in next 25 years
OPEC’s dilemma
Global oil production peaking: What happens now?
Rep. Ehlers, formerly a nuclear physicist, is one of only three scientists in Congress. In response to a question at a town hall meeting, he said: “[Peak oil] is just a tough sell. Sometimes people don’t want to believe what they don’t like, and that’s the problem here. There is simply not an infinite amount of oil.”
What has a chance of being far more effective [than an environmentalist approach] is to focus on what fundamentally will motivate all of us: personal well-being and survival.
Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki was guest editor of the Vancouver Sun for its Saturday, May 5 edition – “definitely a step towards a positive green transformation.”
