Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Saudi Arabia evolves into a global petrochemical hub / ‘Shale oil is sham’ / Wood pellet market heats up / The chief UK scientific adviser has become a government spin doctor / Making the Grid “Smart” / Wind-farm plans take root in Texas / France: EDF’s highly charged sale / Plan for new nuke plant proceeds quietly
No escape: Arctic thaw gains momentum / Climate change ‘could ruin drive to eradicate poverty’ / Warm Oceans Threaten Caribbean Coral Reefs / The greening of China? / China dam project tests new environmental policy / A leak in the Ecuadorian oil adventure / EU must do more to fight climate change: Env.Commissioner
“Peak Oil” is not such a strange or unique phenomenon. … Since the general problem (if not the specifics) is such a common one, allow me to explain with an example from our own history: the end of the Bronze Age, the beginning of the Iron Age, and a crisis we might today call, “Peak Wood.”
Cows make fuel for biogas train / Tankard to gas tank / Ugandan charcoal consumption increasing desertification / Crude Oil vs. the State / Oil and Saudi Arabia – Part 1
Indonesia – 70,000 textile workers laid off since fuel price hike / India to assist in Iran pipeline construction / Fuel crisis might shut UK industry, admits minister / Behind gold’s glitter / Coin laundry costs spike
It’s the end of oil .. Oil is here to stay / Vermonters move to secede from USA / Finding fuel for the burbs: A costly task / H.Kunstler debates M.Lynch on Public Radio / How to Kick the Oil Habit / Petroleum Review on Global Public Media
Vegoil use as fuel squeezing out food uses / Stirling solar energy generators / Oil mallee tree may be fuel alternative / Iraq oil output hurt by high water / Oil shale: Another boom?
A draft of “what we hope to transform into a bold, consistent, easy-to-understand Democratic energy agenda.” Much of it will appeal to anyone concerned about energy policy, Democrat or not.
Time for a Schumacher revival /
Peak oil and permaculture /
Hundreds of sustainability links /
How rural communities can grow again /
Japan’s sustainability down 19%
Report on “End of Oil” conference in UK /
Peak oil and the North Atlantic oscillation /
IEA’s “Resources To Reserves” report – not to worry! /
Peak oil slideshow
Sudan war ends, conflict over oil continues /
Iran ‘has proof’ of British role in bombings /
Reenergize America – a Democratic blueprint for energy /
Daily Kos a hotbed of peak-think /
Despite big profits, oil seeks special help /
Violence, politics muddy Iraq’s oil future /
Chavez and Chirac affirm ‘common vision’ /
Imperial candor on US and oilfields /
The new US ‘oil imperialism’ /
Arctic map vanishes, and oil area expands /
Oil-drilling blues for the coasts
Arab Times: solution to high oil prices – cut taxes /
High fuel costs strain mass-transit systems /
Chavez helps Motley Fool pick oil stocks /
Threat to privatised £56bn UK nuclear clean-up /
Simmons says crude could hit $190 this winter /
France’s consumer spending fell on oil /
IEA to discuss possible further oil release /
Energy costs sting rural residents in Alaska /
Energy, trade and the demise of petrochemicals in Alberta /
Peak corn? As Wal-Mart shifts from petroleum to corn, farmers flee the crop /
Agriculture facing its own Katrina
