Solutions & sustainability – May 6
The hippies were right!
Accidental sustainability and why we can’t sustain it
Ooh! Shiny!
WorldChanging in April
The transformation of manufacturing in the 21st century
Food & agriculture – May 6
seedPOD: A “Wikiseedia” for the future of food and farming
Honeybee die-off threatens food supply
Farming will make or break the food chain
Renewables – May 6
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
Oil producers – May 6
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
Gas and oil – May 6
Is U.S. natural gas headed toward excess supply?
Where gasoline is cheap
Interview with Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil On the Brain
Peak oil – May 6
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?
Peak Oil and U.S. Representative Vernon Ehlers
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.”
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.”
The point of despair
It is at the point of despair that people can feel deep down their connection to all that has come before them and all that will come after. It is not just their personal futures that are at stake anymore. It is the whole project of human civilization…the future of the natural world.
Our finite world: Implications for actuaries
Introduces actuaries to the fact that the world is finite and we are reaching limits in several areas-oil, natural gas, fresh water, and indirectly climate change. These changes affect projections for the future, as made by actuaries. Actuaries should begin to question economic theory as well as their own models.
Religion and peak oil: The twilight of fundamentalism
The failure of the modern faith in progress in an age of peak oil bids fair to leave the field open for radically different ideologies. Is Christian fundamentalism poised to fill the void?
