Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The peak oil crisis: the Gulf Stream / Exxon and Bushco lobbying efforts to kill Kyoto in Europe revealed / Lots of press attention to climate change in 2005 / Scientists: Greenland glaciers retreating / Food crisis feared as fertile land runs out / Canada’s standard of living hard on Earth, report says / Strange, New Carnivore Species Sighted on Borneo – Under Threat From Palm Oil Plantations / Biodiesel: Fuel for thought
Explosions Rock Fuel Depot Near London / OPEC Should Not Curtail Production, Saudi Minister Says / EU looks at wood and waste to lose oil addiction / Scotland: Power line ‘key for green energy’ / More of Third World Fit for Wind Power – UN Study
/ Pact signed for prototype of coal plant
/ NEI’s Peterson addresses plans for new nuclear power / Coconut oil gives Vanuatu more energy
/ Experts: N. Calif. coast can generate, control energy
/ Fat to fuel:
SF city leaders want to make biodiesel from liquefied animal parts
Transcripts from first hearing by Congress on understanding peak oil / Copper may be approaching Hubbert’s Peak / Latin America’s oil production past its peak / Lawmakers: Will we run out of oil?
/ Electrification of transportation as a response to peaking of world oil production / What corporate America is reading: #13 is Simmons
/ Peak oil on Belgian TV
To further raise the awareness among Syriana audiences that oil supply disruptions are coming and that preparations urgently need to begin locally, Post Carbon Institute (postcarbon.org) is mobilizing volunteers around the country to distribute catchy flyers to moviegoers before and after the film.
Professor Kjell Aleklett, President of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas addresses the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the US Congress, including a statement on Peak Oil from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Neither the mega-cities nor the survivalist’s bunker will be viable in a post-oil future. The places with the best chance of surviving an oil peak will be cities of less than a million people, ranging down to well-placed smaller cities and towns.
Automobile manufacturers awake to Peak Oil
/ Rimini Conference
/ BP Forecast of Oil Price
/ Saudi Reserves
/ Country Re-Assessment – Syria
/ Kuwait Confession
/ Voices of Sense in Washington
/ More confusion from the International Energy Agency / and much more…
How America plotted to stop Kyoto deal /
UN climate talks enter key phase /
Bid to team rich and poor in sustaining forests /
Study: temperate forests could worsen global warming /
Efficiency, intensity, and getting from here to there (the US and CO2) /
WWF Report: 2005 will be hottest, stormiest /
Scientist hopes for CO2 storage
Whistler 2020 (fully-sustainable, low-footprint) /
Bike industry, advocates unite, and Congress starts to notice /
How to live off the land (local produce) /
Gardener on the Roof /
Modes de transport (human-powered) /
Folke Günthe talks about re-ruralisation /
Red Pepper: the clean green route to power
Peak Oil and Climate Change are two historic events for humans and life on earth. The first threatens modern industrial ways of living and the latter threatens the climatic systems that are an integral part of our world and the way we live and survive.
Lawmakers: US should prepare for global oil flow peak (Bartlett at hearing) /
Lundberg: Reflections on Amtrak peak-oil tour /
Book review: “The Final Energy Crisis” /
UPI analysis: Future of oil /
Deffeyes criticizes media /
“End of Suburbia” video now on-line
Some thoughts on “Syriana” /
All roads lead to cities, transforming India /
China: No carbon copy of the west /
Warmth for poor consumers /
Grab bag of energy stories /
WSJ discussion on corp. responsibility, conservation /
Pennsylvania governor proposes national plan for renewables /
Iraqi oil industry in crisis
