U.S. energy policy – Aug 29
Iraq commanders want renewable power
Californians weigh new tax on oil companies
Lugar: U.S. must break oil habit
Bush courts oil-rich Kazakhstan
Climate change policy – Aug 29
California – the risks of going it alone
China ambivalent on global warming
Monbiot: don’t trigger another catastrophe with sulphate pollution
Australian TV covers peak oil: “Running on empty”
One of the most doomerish pieces about peak oil to run on mainstream television. Interviews with Andrew MacNamara (MP-Queensland) and environmentalist Jeremy Leggett, as well as two oilmen.
Video and transcript available.
Peak oil – Aug 29
Heinberg on the Oil Depletion Protocol
Kurt Vonnegut’s apocalypse
Oil-driven energy era coming to end?
Skrebowski: oil crisis by 2010
Saudi oilfield of the future – Khurais.
Hydrogen to the rescue? Questions about Iceland’s sustainability
Iceland plans to be the first country to implement a hydrogen economy, taking advantage of its vast electric resources. However, sustainability is still wanting in this tiny, isolated island nation, despite its massive advantages over most countries. It cannot, at this time, free itself from the world oil economy.
Housing & group living – Aug 29
Flash! – communes on the rise again
Think small, think local (Earthaven)
Real estate: smaller to become better
Curbing the big, the bad, the ugly in L.A.
Food & agriculture – Aug 28
– Alice Waters: Slow food nation
– One thing to do about food: A forum
(Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Wendell
Berry, Winona LaDuke, Dr. Vandana Shiva…)
– Stewards of wine land (sustainable vinyards)
– California seeks to clear hemp of a bad name
– Black farms, black markets
– Local food in small towns (interviews)
ASPO 5. Dennis Meadows – Peak Oil and Limits to Growth
‘Limits to Growth’ was criticised for predicting that oil would run out and for being wrong in that prediction. However, oil depletion is not mentioned once in the original 1972 report, this is a completely bogus criticism.
ASPO 5. Skrebowski tells us there’s 1,500 days until the Peak, & closing thoughts on ASPO 5
Skrebowski: “Decoding the figures in the new IEA report is akin to decoding the Da Vinci Code. In my work I am not a pessimist, and I observe what oil companies do, not what they say.”
ASPO 5. Jeremy Leggett Intertwines Peak Oil and Climate Change.
This talk will look at peak oil in the context of climate change, the conflagration of two huge problems, what we might think of as the Two Great Oversights of our times.
Iranian energy politics – Aug 27
– Inside Iran’s nuclear machine: what makes
them tick?
– Iran-China transactions up USD253m
– Iran’s oil output up
– IEA looks to Opec to boost oil production
if Iran cuts
– US vs. Iran: Is an attack inevitable?
– Ex-official explains Iran’s wariness
National energy policy – Aug 27
– Bracks urged to think ahead as ‘oil runs out’
– Bush’s first energy rule: efficient enough?
– Crumbling U.S. infrastructure
