Italy gears up for international peak oil conference
ASPO’s fifth annual gathering will showcase top oil depletion experts; governments, industry and media taking notice; new focus on dealing with dwindling supplies. July 18-19 in Pisa.
Peak oil – June 23
Friedman’s Addicted to Oil documentary this weekend on Discovery / Podcast – Kunstler: PO Impacts on Transportation and Cities / Michael Ruppert’s economic forecast / T. Boone Pickens on Charlie Rose / Yuba Gals “Peak Moment TV” on the road / James Schlesinger: Thinking seriously about energy and oil’s future
Our black future
The biggest problem with our bounty of coal is not what it does to our mountains or the atmosphere, but what it does to our minds. It preserves the illusion that we don’t have to change our lives. Given the profound challenges we face with the end of cheap oil and the arrival of global warming, this is a dangerous fantasy.
Portland blazes new trails for the peak oil world
A trip to the progressive city reveals why its citizens are leading the world in awareness of Peak Oil issues.
Solutions & sustainability – Jun 22
New internet audio archive on sustainable agriculture /
Gardeners can slow climate change /
UK course: Life After Oil: Breaking the Habit /
Why Europe needs regional currencies /
Meg Wheatley on how to communicate Peak Oil
Environment – June 22
Heinz Center’s O’Malley explains how to fill gaps in environmental research /
Is Global Warming Fueling Western Wildfires? / Reading the Poles: Earth’s Ice in Jeopardy /
EU, US to Agree “Urgent” Action on Climate Change
Peak Oil – Jun 22
Staniford: A Critique of the 2006 EIA International Energy Outlook /
Oil consumption seen soaring /
ASPO international conference in Pisa, Italy, July 18-19 /
Meacher: We Need A Change in Energy Policy As Well As in Government
Other energy – Jun 22
The New Ethanol Future Demands a New Public Policy /
Elusive cornucopia: why it will be hard to reap the benefit of biofuel /
California sets “clean energy” oil tax on ballot /
Ship It, Ship It Good /
Club of Rome wants deserts to become source of renewable energy /
Nuclear Power: A Leap into the Dark Energy Chasm
Clinton raises alarm about oil depletion
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has urged newspaper editors to focus more attention on the depletion of the world’s oil reserves. In a June 17 speech Clinton said a “significant number of petroleum geologists” have warned that the world could be nearing the peak in oil production.
A Torrent of Darkness
In the not-too-distant future, the big leadership of the world is going to awaken to the seriousness of what I have just told you about global warming in the previous few paragraphs. What do I mean when I say “big leadership”? I mean all of it, the top honchos, whether U.S. or Chinese or Russian or European, or whomever.
Gender, peak oil and culture (part 3): Working together
Thanks to Energy Bulletin readers who responded to earlier essays on gender, Peak Oil and culture. Responses came from Singapore, London, Sydney, and Canada, as well as from both American coasts, the Southwest and the Midwest.
Fun while it lasted
Living in expectation of this civilization’s collapse, which I do, can be isolating. It’s like having historical-epochal halitosis. You don’t get invited back to dinner parties after trying to engage people on the topic of our imminent decline and fall.
