Peak oil – Feb 22

Dialoguing with Dr. Peter Jackson of CERA
Libération: Vive le pétrole cher
Oil prices likely to dip – but not far
Dmitry Orlov interview (part 2)
Another site for energy news
Community Solution report:
The energy impact of our buildings

Coal – Feb 21

Light at end of tunnel for British coal-mining

Court stops Texan coal plants fast-track

Cleaner Coal Is Attracting Some Doubts

Activists stopping coal loading

Magical thinking

Much of the rhetoric of today’s faith in progress focuses on the distinction between current scientific modes of thought and the magical thinking of other societies. The distinction is real, but Peak Oil points up unexpected roles played by both kinds of thinking in the predicament of industrial society.

Peak oil – Feb 20

Weak oil theory
Saudis’ cutbacks raise oil concerns
Kunstler: The big chill
WSJ blog on energy covers PO

Food & agriculture – Feb 20

Radical ruling proposed on UK food advertising
Humans’ beef with livestock: a warmer planet
Transportation, food security & local economies

Australian crop production worst in 20 years
How a cookbook renaissance heated up the sustainable-food movement

Iran – Feb 20

New Yorker on Iran: Troubled waters over oil
Iran – (U.S.) ready to attack
WSJ on
Iran: Crude reality

North America – Feb 20

‘Energy-rich’ B.C. could be self-sufficient in 20 years
Global warming demands local fixes
An environmentalist in the White House – what are you doing here?

Fossil fuels – Feb 20

CERA: High rig costs, tight labor markets to support gas prices
Cambodia: The world’s newest petrol-state
Increasing oil sands production
Coal plant in Subic Bay opposed

Climate science – Feb 20

McKibben on the IPCC report: warning on warming
Global warming scientist Susan Solomon is encouraged
Aim for low world warming despite hardship: World Bank scientist