Peak Oil Review — May 7
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
The lighter side – May 7
World Naked Bike Ride coming in June
The (Fossil) Invaders
Fix growing energy crisis by growing waistlines
ODAC News – May 7
Excerpts and comments.
Housing and urban – May 7
Kunstler: Compost nation
Carbon trading and why it will hit home (multi-generational housing)
Better-heeled failing home economics too (foreclosures)
Transport – May 7
Binge-flying culture
Qantas sale: flying blind into turbulent times
A two-wheeled option (with battery) for commuters
Taking our time off – slower vacations
Your car + your commute = A visit to your doctor
The military, energy & climate – May 7
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
Petroleum reservoirs are mysterious
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.”
Food & agriculture – May 7
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?
Climate – May 7
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)
Looking beyond – May 7
NYT: The silver lining to impending doom
Heinberg: Talking ourselves to extinction
Peak oil, carrying capacity and overshoot
The sprirituality of collapse
Peak opportunity
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.
Vancouver Sun – Green for a day under guest editor Suzuki
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.”
