Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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
How do we create a worthwhile future without a way of visioning it? Rob Hopkins compares environmental disaster movies to some permaculture teaching techniques, and suggests we may need a new superhero to lead us into a post-oil-peak world.
Lord Browne speaks, Beyond Petroleum? /
Alberta oil sands growing source of pollution: report / Our greed for energy will be our downfall / India joins nuclear fusion club / Poison + Water = Hydrogen
Iran prepares to sell oil in euros / Energy costs hit US manufacturers / How oil conservation hurts governments / In today’s India, status comes with four wheels / Bicycle boom pushes Zimbabwe inflation / China refuses to cut energy use / Right wingers going for the green / With oil prices off their peak, are supplies assured?
By promoting biodiesel as a substitute, we have missed the fact that it is worse than the fossil-fuel burning it replaces
Special issue of Business Week on climate change /
Warming effect in a world without snow /
Emissions don’t respect borders /
U.S. climate official’s work is questioned /
US facing pressure to sign up to future climate protocols /
Global warming cartoon /
Peak Oil and the Philosophers Stone (psychology of PO /
Australia broadcast on the “Real oil crisis” /
NZ Green Fitzsimons: Surely the time is now? /
Kunstler: Uncharted territory /
Peoria teachers examine PO /
Monbiot: The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis /
Peak Oil hits the hill /
Ruppert vs Corsi on PO and abiotic oil [canceled]
The planned increases and start-up of Strategic Petroleum Reserves worldwide will be a significant source of demand for oil over at least the next several years – in the range of at least (conservatively) 300,000 barrels per day and possibly (probably) significantly higher, to 1,000,000 bpd (or even higher).
The map is not the territory. To any thinking person this statement is axiomatic. But, an important corollary is more difficult to discern, namely: Money is nothing more than the right to command energy to do what you want it to do.
Perhaps the world’s first local action plan intentionally designing a way down the oil peak is now available online. It should provide great inspiration for other local Peak Oil initiatives. [updated]
Energy is the fundamental prerequisite of every life. The availability of energy is a fundamental and indivisible human right.
