Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Over the past century, our cities have been shaped — literally — for the benefit of the automobile and oil industries. Today, with global oil reserves headed toward irreversible decline, we need to face the challenges of the imminent post-oil reality.
Long and detailed article on the measures being introduced to deal with their energy crisis. The measures currently target government agencies, but are set to become compulsory for consumers and business if prices continue to rise.
David Holmgren speaks with GPM’s Julian Darley / Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy / Suck It Up, America / Are We In Peak Oil Today? / The Oil Price Mirage / Aren’t there alternatives to oil? / The $10,000 Question
From Peak Oilers to Citizens for Sustainable Living / Riding Down the Curve: How Cities Can Survive the Energy Crisis / CSIRO(Au) Sustainability Network newsletters 51, 52 / Energy conservation: using less to do more
China swoops on PetroKazakhstan for $4.2bn / Oil coup for China, India cries foul / How to Escape the Oil Trap / Winter forecast for heating homes: costly / What’s a luxury car driver to do? / Will GOP pay for high gas prices?
How Portland’s snooty tastes are saving Oregon farms, luring kids back to the land and even-gasp!-teaching Republicans and Democrats to get along.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer — the only major newspaper in the US that’s taking Peak Oil seriously — has run almost two dozen articles on different aspects of the energy crisis in their “Crude Awakening” series.
Venezuela Expects Oil Exports to China to Soar / Foolishness on Fuel / Whatever the economic system, oil is a shock / Ten Things Congress Could Demand from Bush on Iraq / The Oil Effect / Soaring petrol prices make farms target for theft / Electricity Cut Halts Iraq Oil Exports / Higher gas prices finally curb demand
Ecofarming and Agroforesry for Self-Reliance in Russia / High oil prices motivate studies for renewable energy sources / Toxic legacy of e-waste revealed / UK birds ‘hit by climate change’ / UK Greens Party backs Friends of the Earth ‘Big Ask’ on emissions reduction / Visitors rush to glimpse vanishing glaciers / Climate change marks dawn of man
Super rich go for geothermal energy / Coal’s price is rising, but can it clean up? / USDOE Touts Solar Energy Potential / Ecological landslide fuels nuclear debate / Hydrogen fuel cells hint at hope, hurdles
Sweet and sour crude / ‘Peak oil’ is coming, but country is ill-prepared / Interview: Peter Maass on ‘The Breaking Point’ for Gas Demand / Delusion and the Media / Peak Oil conference in London October 11 / Is Oil Nearing Its Peak? /
At some point, almost certainly
within this decade, we will peak in the
amount of oil that is produced worldwide… Innovations in nanotechnology and
other advances in materials science
would make it possible to transform our
vision of plentiful, low-cost energy into a
reality. [article by Nobel Prize winner]
