Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Forests paying the price for biofuels / Demand climbs for biodiesel fuel / Spoonful of sugar makes biofuel greener / Jungle Rot: the Future of Ethanol / Stripping – Fire in the hole! / Can nuclear power become just another business?
The greening of 10mph suburbia / America’s green zeitgeist / A return to tribes / Three paths toward a green — and tasty — Thanksgiving
Service stations feel the squeeze / Oil’s 2-Month Drop Leaves Traders With Worthless Bets / UK Chief Scientists pushing nuclear? / Iran in turmoil as president’s purge deepens / Oil may be Canada’s undoing / Montana Governor has coal for every problem (2) / Sheik, rattle and roll – Syriana review in NewsWeek
Contemplating the end of oil is frightening, even terrifying. …But since it is Thanksgiving, let’s take a clear-eyed look at our situation and see if there is anything that we can be thankful for.
A peak oil bill has been filed in the U.S. House of Representatives with the support of the newly formed Peak Oil Caucus.
A wholly predictable energy crisis looms / OPEC secy gen: $60 oil too high, but likes $40-$50 / Natural gas depletion and what it will mean this winter / Brazil government pushes for Chinese backed dam / Row is all Bush’s fault, Chavez tells Mexico / Profile of Bolivia’s Evo Morales / Exxon and the World Bank developing enemies in Cameroon
No silver bullet for oil in crisis / Peak Oil, Energy Futures and Violent Conflict / Oleocene: se préparer au Pic Pétrolier / Do senators really hate oil price manipulation? / Weekend roundup
In the decades ahead, we do not know precisely when, we shall reach a point, a plateau or peak, beyond which we shall be unable further to increase production of conventional oil worldwide. We need to understand that problem now and to begin to prepare for that transition.
There are at least seven major reasons why dependence on petroleum and its products for the lion’s share of the world’s transportation fuel creates special dangers in our time.
Venezuela to sell cheap oil to U.S. poor /
Qatar, US launch huge LNG project in strategic alliance /
Review of oil movie Syriana /
Opec set to lift secrecy about oil production /
Big Oil’s greed exacts an awful toll for profits /
Pacific islands scramble to cushion skyrocketing world fuel prices /
Saudi Arabia asks for “road map” of oil demand
Global warming, global health, global ethics /
India unlikely to agree to Kyoto emission caps /
Climate change threatens world fish stocks, WWF says /
Ted Glick on the Climate Crisis day of action, Dec 3 /
Comedian Larry David: making global warming funny /
Fly the eco-friendly skies /
Sequestration and oil production
Urban permaculture /
Dorm room showcases eco-friendly living /
Basel and the 2000 Watt Society /
Electric cars get another jolt of interest /
Gas prices push some to torch their SUVs /
Julian Darley and The Relocalization Movement
