Peak Oil – Sept 25

Energy Dept. concludes crude will peak
Recent hype can’t disprove peak oil
Oil peaks, valleys, plateaus and plains

Get ready for oil supplies to dwindle: experts

Put crudely, petrol panic runs out of puff

Kunstler on relocalization and peak oil

Geopolitics – Sept 25

Appeasement driven by oil (Darfur)
Oil-rich leaders mock Bush team

Blair bemoans Russia oil crisis

World Bank profits from poor countries

West bars IAEA motion on Israel

Energy policy – Sept 25

Nuclear power pushed for oil sands production
Collapse of oil prices makes gas restraint key to controlling CO2
Untransformed
(Bush and energy technology)
Hearings on Defense energy use
Environmentalists back Putin over Shell’s energy permit

Food & agriculture – Sept 25

Spinach, feedlots and knowing the backstory
Don’t cry to them, Argentina
Gateses’ approach to African hunger is bound to fail

Solutions & sustainability – Sept 25

Making the Tarmac bloom
Towpaths and bicycle commuting
High Point: Seattle’s green community
Wal-Mart grows ‘green’ strategies
The religious war on bottled water

Climate – Sept 25

Scientists shocked as Arctic polar route emerges
Great Warming filmmakers aim to influence U.S. voters
Global meltdown feared: UN report
Carbon offsetting is not just hot air

Biofuels – Sept 24

Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper?

Farming the World’s Energy

Researchers Caution on Potential of Energy Crops as Invasive Species

Renewables – Sept 24

Silicon Valley explores solar technology

Philippines urged to use its abundant wind

Slow uptake of gasoline alternatives in US

Clinton debuts $1B renewable-energy fund

2006 a tipping point, says Flavin

Mitigating collapse – Sept 23

Orlov: What can young professionals and aging baby boomers do to prepare for America’s collapse?

Orlov: What can young people do to prepare for America’s collapse?

Surviving The Oil Crash: Leadership And Social Structure

Thomas Homer-Dixon: Resiliency & Collapse

Oil industry – Sept 22

High costs threaten oil sands projects
Oil companies split on demands by exporting countries
Hofmeister of Shell Oil podcast

Suits say US impeded audits for oil leases

Dems want hearings on Interior Dept “corruption”
Factors that pushed oil price up now push it down

How periodic are oil price fluctuations?

Climate – Sept 22

McKibben: “Bush’s climate plan will kick-start new era of bargaining over planet’s future”
UK”s Beckett to warn UN on CC
Al Gore interview (video)
Bloomberg, Schwarzenegger point fingers
Community holds vigil for rain
Sea levels are rising faster than predicted
Nitrous oxide – no laughing matter for forests

Oil Industry – Sept 22

Executive sees price threat to oil sands projects

Costs of exploration soar

Auditors say US Dept. Interior corruptly favouring oil companies