Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Last week the peak oil phenomenon reached a turning point when official Washington began to realize it has a problem. The problem, however, is currently being framed as high-gas-prices-going-into-the-next-election rather than worldwide oil depletion.
Building industry coalesces around environmental techniques / Dongtan and greening China / Vampire Power / Teaching environmental science without a textbook
Simmons and Yergin on NPR /
Julian Darley at Local Solutions Conference, NYC / Report for Congress: Oil shale: history, incentives, and policy (mentions PO) / Report for Congress: Navy ship propulsion technologies: options for reducing oil use (mentions sailpower) / Presentation on
future fuels for flag officers (Navy)
Wesley Clark on global warming / Palm oil – the end of Borneo’s tropical forests? / Critics say Peru pipeline is an accident waiting to happen / Paid to deny global warming
The oil world’s new bullies /
Woolsey – The war on terror: the energy front /
Heritage Foundation: Reducing dependence on Middle Eastern oil /
Across USA, wave of anger building over gas prices
£1bn windfall from carbon trading /
High oil prices endanger airline industry / Bolivia stirs fears of energy producer power /
Bolivia nationalizes oil and gas sector /
Cheap gas fuels fracas in Caracas / Ghana: High oil prices set to trigger more strikes / World Bank urges economic growth with clean energy
How Chernobyl affected future of nuclear power / Experts doubt oil shale answer to energy crisis /
Turning dirty coal into clean energy / Skepticism about green fuel /
Exxon CEO: Use less of our stuff / MIT technologies could double accessible world oil / Learn to live with coal
Outside Magazine does Peak Oil (good article) /
Bartlett on CSPAN last night /
Hirsch et al publish summary of latest study
“Ripe for Change” about Calif. agriculture – on PBS May 4 / Fuel, fertilizer prices expected to keep climbing /
Michael Pollan’s new book on the U.S. food chain provides much to chew on / New “100-Mile Diet” website
Adapting a popular inspirational message for the post-carbon era.
The rise of a new global energy elite means high oil and gas prices are here to stay. … “Welcome to the age of energy insecurity,” says J. Robinson West, a former Reagan administration official… “Worldwide production will peak. The result will be skyrocketing prices, with a huge, sustained economic shock.” (excerpts from this excellent article)
Queensland MP Andrew McNamara predicts an oil price driven recession, in a story appearing in Queensland’s largest circulation newspaper, The Sunday Mail.
