A Road Map to U.S. Decarbonization

Today, 85% of the United States’ energy mix comes from carbon-rich fossil fuels: oil, natural gas, and coal. ..We propose to switch our economy slowly (over 30 to 50 or more years) to nonfossil energy sources by using proven technologies and available, expandable distribution systems. (Excerpts.)

Better than those other diets: the PHD Program

What to do about the fact that when I get into a car I feel terrible? No, I do not suffer from motion sickness. This is a different kind of health issue. I am a recovering oil addict and I don’t have a support group.

About the Oil Depletion Protocol

The next few years may offer humankind its last, best opportunity to avert resource wars, terrorism, and economic collapse as it enters the second half of the Age of Oil. If we grasp that opportunity and succeed, we could set a precedent for cooperative, peaceful approaches to all of the resource problems we are likely to encounter during the coming century. The choice we face is between competition and conflict on one hand, and voluntary moderation and mutual assistance on the other. The first steps toward the latter can be readily taken by endorsing and adopting this simple agreement.

Briefing for the Descent

Arguments for a survivalist response to Peak Oil are becoming common, but depend on improbable scenarios of sudden collapse. In the face of the century or more of decline that forms the most likely future for the industrial world, other responses — outlined in this essay — offer a more realistic plan for dealing with the transition to a deindustrial world.

Other Energy – Sept 6

Russian agency sues to stop Shell on Sakhalin

Cost blowout hits Woodside LNG

Ghana: Power Crisis Worries Gold Miners

Turkey offers $130bn in energy investments

Solutions and Sustainability – Sept 6

Car-Sharing Merges Into the Mainstream

Island to vote on energy independance plan

WA Minister alludes to oil peak in broadside on PM

Relocalize.net invite

Climate – Sept 6

Deep ice tells long climate story

Meteorologists linking drought to climate change

UK Energy review ignores climate change tipping point

Insurers ‘too short sighted’ to tackle climate change

Insurers told to do more to tackle climate change

Biofuels – Sept 6

New Zealand firm makes bio-diesel from sewage

Fish fat to fuel in Vietnam

Rabobank: Biofuel industry unviable without Govt support

Time to slow down on biofuels?

Palm oil prices to rise