Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Lovins: Winning the oil endgame (talk) /
The real cost of electricity /
Gov. Schweitzer’s coal-to-fuels program: What you didn’t hear on ‘60 Minutes’ /
Life in a grass house (the viability of switchgrass) /
Kuwaiti MP demands truth on Kuwaiti oil
You’re a good man, Lester Brown (interview) /
Anaesthetist turned climate change expert on Radio NZ /
Antarctic ice sheet losing mass /
White House spin reaches science research
When I first read James Howard Kunstler’s Rolling Stone excerpt last year, I knew I needed to know more about peak oil. Thousands of pages later I have a far more nuanced picture, and am now back at college teaching a course on peak oil. (Syllabus included)
How the predictions of Cambridge Energy Research Associates are faring thus far based on 2005 production figures.
Triangle conference on peak oil and community solutions to be held March 25 at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
An overview of US and international energy policy, including the prospects for an economy based on renewable energy, the security problems likely to result from tightening oil supplies, and a possible basis for making the transition to alternatives.
The current world energy situation poses a national threat unparalleled in 225 years… Concurrent with rising demand [for oil] are indications that world production may soon peak, followed by permanent decline and shortage. Moreover, most of the remaining oil is concentrated in distant, politically hostile locations, inviting interdiction by enemies.
Simmons:
What a difference 20 years make in crude oil prices (“What peak oil really means”) /
Natural gas demand destruction /
December the peak? /
ASPO-USA response to ExxonMobil peak oil advertising /
Dr. Robert L. Hirsch joins ASPO-USA advisory board /
Everybody’s an expert: putting predictions to the test
The Antarctic ice sheet, which contains 90% of the world’s ice, has lost significant mass in the past few years.
Seven Kentucky colleges and universities, along with 13 state and community organizations, have organized a conference that speaks to the severe and imminent threats to sustainability that face our nation.
Japan: The slow life – Tune in, drop out, grow rice /
18 months in a retro-Amish-Mennonite community (Eric Brende interview) /
Oops, we helped ruin the planet:
Guide owners join to discourage ‘casual flying’ /
All the organic broccoli in the world won’t be enough to save the planet /
I’m lovin’ it: Falling sales force closure of 25 UK McDonald’s branches
Renewable energies to transform farmers into ‘energy moguls’ /
Russia challenged by nuclear woes /
U.S. eyes Alberta oilsands as key part of supply /
ExxonMobil drilled dry North Sea well off Norway /
Tough talk about oil (“Children of the Sun” book review)
