Geopolitics – Jan 25
New US strategy on Iran emerges from Davos
India’s ambition:
An elephant can run very fast
Oil the reason for US attack on Somalia
Somalia – A trip down memory hole lane
Oil – Jan 25
Mexican oil: Severe withdrawal symptoms ahead
Pemex predicts production drop
Curse of the black gold: the Niger Delta
Is the sun setting on oil sector’s heyday?
Dysfunction – Jan 25
Technological revolution is 100 years dead
Infected by affluenza (and mental illness)
Wealth top priority for today’s youth
Saving the planet: empty gestures
Bush’s SOTU – rhetoric and reality on energy
Post Carbon: The danger of a few little words
Switching to snake oil
Bush’s bogus cure for our oil addiction
NY Times: Energy rhetoric, and reality
American way of life still not up for negotiation
Revolution arising from the Earth, Part I
As the industrial system spins toward exhaustion, seeds of change are sprouting at the base.
Revolution arising from the Earth, Part II: The Earth speaks
Ecovillages and the new aborigines
Key questions on energy options (and thoughts on the SOTU)
A question was recently posed here: “What is the most important question concerning ethanol production?” That got me to thinking about important questions regarding not only ethanol, but all of our energy sources.
Banana drama
Declining oil reserves will impact hugely on energy prices and the way we eat and farm. Is Britain ready for a new agri-culture?
U.S. and biofuels – Jan 24
Contradictions seen in alternative energy plan
Ethanol production booming on demand
WaPo: Blindness on biofuels
Springtime for ethanol
The Hesperotechnic Phase
Lewis Mumford proposed back in 1934 that the history of modern technology could be divided into three phases — eotechnic, paleotechnic, and neotechnic. It’s worth revisiting his ideas in an effort to scope out the phase that follows the approaching end of the neotechnic era.
Paradigm shift on climate – Jan 23
Monbiot: If Tesco and Wal-Mart are friends of the earth, are there any enemies left?
McKibben: logjam over global warming starting to break
FT: The Right was wrong on climate change
Oil chief emerges with climate warning
The future is climate neutral
Report has ‘smoking gun’ on climate
Global warming at Davos (WEF)
Energy sources – Jan 23
Oil sands projects steam ahead in Alberta, despite Harper
Rogers: oil will rise to $100 after `correction’
Coal combustion: nuclear resource or danger
Chernobyl churches
Hungarian gas field could turn country into gas exporter
