Peak oil – Nov 2
Forecaster: Global oil output ‘will start to decline by 2015’ /
TOD: Peak Oil Aware NY Governor? /
ASPO-USA: support for Global Energy Flow modelling /
The oil crisis started 30 years ago /
Whatever happened to Peak Oil?
Powerdown and Permaculture – At the Cusp of Transition
Permaculture, as it has been reframed by David Holmgren, is nothing less than the design system for a post-peak society. But is the movement capable of influencing society as a whole? Or should we just head for the hills?
Draining Canada first
Sating America’s prodigious energy appetite depends on the continued availability of Canadian energy sources. How long can Canada go on behaving like America’s most compliant energy colony?
Report on a talk at the ASPO-USA conference in Boston.
Peak oil – Nov 2
Tom Whipple: Virginia writes a plan /
Oil films reviewed by 4th Intl site/
New book “Energy War” by Stan Goff
Biofuels – Nov 2
The real scoop on biofuels /
As investors covet ethanol, farmers resist /
McCain’s farm flip
Renewables – Nov 2
Dawn of the “solar salon” in US living rooms /
GE Energy Korea: ‘Switch to renewable power before you’re forced to’ /
False dawn of solar power /
China: massive capital for renewable power
Food & agriculture – Nov 2
What if the Midwest stopped trying to feed the world and started focusing on itself?
Forecast for Australian grain production cut again /
‘Virtually no progress’ in alleviating world hunger: FAO
Climate policy – Nov 2
US Inspector Generals probe allegations that global warming findings were suppressed /
MIT survey: climate tops Americans’ environmental concerns /
UK Stern Report sells climate short /
You can’t do it all with mirrors /
Why we must ration the future /
2050 too late for climate change action: former U.S. adviser
The Oil Crisis Started 30 Years Ago
It is customary to look for the critical year of oil production in absolute terms, but in the year 1970 or thereabouts there was another important “conjunction,” to use an astrological metaphor.
Dollar hegemony – Nov 2
The Dollar’s Full-System Meltdown /
Syria switches to the Euro due to US sanctions /
Gulf oil states ‘keep faith in dollar assets’
Politics: The Eighty Percent Pay Cut
One of the unmentionable facts of today’s politics is that the relative prosperity of the industrial nations depends on the impoverishment of the rest of the world. Lacking a willingness to deal with this reality, proposals for political solutions to peak oil and other aspects of our current predicament fall short.
Peak Oil Aware NY Governor / Lt. Governor?
Transcript of a speech by a candidate for New York State Lieutenant Governor. Polls show that the Spitzer-Paterson ticket is likely to win big next week. If so, New York state would have the first peak oil aware governor’s office in the United States.
