Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Solid roundup that manages to sneak in a mention of oil depletion; worth reading if only for the quote from Tony Radich of the US Dept. Energy, told The Business: “It looks like ethanol is going to be the biggest alternative fuel. We’ve got a long way to go on hydrogen. …”
The world is quickly being split into two hostile camps: those with cars, and those without. Nowhere is this division more apparent than in this city of 14 million people, where cars push bicycles onto the sidewalk and people up against the wall.
With global oil reserves set to run out within decades, governments must act now to avoid an energy crisis of indescribable proportions.
Secret report reveals catalogue of blunders at Sellafield / Today’s “Mega-cities” are Overcrowded and Environmentally Stressed / Study: Sun’s Changes to Blame for Part of Global Warming / Melting Planet / Drastic Climate Change Affects Germany
High time for a single GCC currency / Russian oil producers to freeze gasoline prices until year-end / Fueled again / Rupiah ills and oil costs eat into Indofood profits / Was Jimmy Carter right? / Being President in an Age of Limits
GOM oil infrastructure update / Is this post rigged, or Information on Oil Platforms / Kunstler on Financial Sense Online / Facing up to the coming energy crisis
Things to come: part I / Willits Economic Localization website / Why isn’t energy conservation a higher priority? / EU Parliament calls for renewables targets to be set at 20% / Doing the Hybrid Math / Chard on the Green? S.F. in a post-oil future / Green Glass – Window Treatments Help Clear the Air
When I learned of Peak Oil a few months ago, it was all very familiar… As in Tolkien’s book, the world as we know is coming to an end, for better or worse. Within my lifetime, what is left of it, most of what I have grown to know, if not love, will pass away, forever.
Adam Fenderson meets the man who predicts the end of life as we know it, and comes away feeling strangely optimistic. Also: a conference devoted to Peak Oil, where the mood was positive, and offered a sense of opportunity.
Acidic oceans threaten marine food chain / Fears Over Climate as Arctic Ice Melts at Record Level / Novel take on global warming / State of Fear / Global Storm Warning / Trust Us, We’re Experts
Pemex expects to cancel oil exports / Saudi Aramco to double its oil rig fleet / Norwegian oil production continues to fall / Ethanol Starting to Trade Like a World Commodity / UK Reactors up for sale? (4) / Designs of offshore platforms at issue / Oil sands worth $1.4-trillion, study finds
Heinberg and Staniford / The Peak Oil Crisis: Congressman Bartlett’s Conference / Triple J Radio Australia covers peak oil / Jack Zagar on Saudi oil production and peak / A Nice Counterexample [of Hubbert Linearization] / Organizing Ecological Revolution / Zimbabwe’s economic crisis drives it back into steam age / The Five Minute Guide: Oil
