Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In the face of manufacturing job losses, the looming peak oil crisis, and greater economic insecurity we believe there is over-whelming public support for all nine Bay Area counties and their cities to work together with business and community leaders to devise and implement an economic localization strategy through public governance and business sector initiatives.
Two colonels and a four star general presented the poster Army Energy Strategy for the End of Cheap Oil at the 25th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida. Sohbet Karbuz gives us the lowdown.
It is now official. China is embarking on the world’s largest synthetic fuels program. This has immediate implications for energy planners everywhere, for worldwide finance and capital expenditure, for the global coal markets, for the ecological footprint of Chinese development, for emissions of greenhouse gases…
Dawning of the age of Frankenfuels
Biofuels: Turning petroleum addicts into alcoholics?
Sustainability, energy independence and agricultural policy
Science à la Joe Camel
Global warming goes to court
Landmark climate change ruling in Australia
Carmakers say California’s greenhouse rules would endanger SUVs
Husbanding resources
Earthshakers: the top 100 green campaigners of all time
Pastor chosen to lead Christian Coalition steps down in dispute over agenda
If we want more people to understand peak oil, we need a list of clear, understandable and approachable counter-arguments with data. This really needs a Wiki page.
Correa ‘wins Ecuador’s election’
Venezuela’s oil-based economy
Mexico: An energy quagmire awaits president-elect
Richard Heinberg on towns and cities preparing for peak oil, taking the message outside of ‘green’ circles, permaculture, and the oil depletion protocol.
Crude oil resource estimates tend to diverge to widely different values as the production curve gets close to peaking.
Dr James Hansen NASA’s lead climate scientist spoke recently to a packed lecture theatre at Bristol University. Chris Vernon gives a detailed account of the presentation and asks Hansen about peak oil.
New Energy Mercantilism is the set of geopolitical phenomena emerging as nations realize that, in the future, there will not be enough energy to go around to sustain projected demand.
