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H.T.Odum first developed the concepts and methods of Emergy accounting, and an increasing number of authorities advocate the discipline as the best, if not the only, way of determining which processes and fuels are actually ‘winners’ in any meaningful way.
The Cost of Energy is a new grassroots energy education web site from American Lou Grinzo that is outlining the issues (and the jargon!) in an approachable question and answer format. We asked Lou to outline his starting assumptions and provide some background on the project and himself.
It is 42 inches wide, 1,090 miles long and is intended to save the West from relying on Middle Eastern oil. Nothing has been allowed to stand in its way – and it finally opens today
A major international conference on “Food Security in an Energy-Scarce World” is planned for June 23-25 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will seek to answer the question: “How can the world’s population be fed without the extensive use of fossil fuels in the production, processing and distribution of food?” [The impressive list of participants is now available.]
An idea mapping in PowerPoint for the proposed Vancouver Peak Oil Planning Symposium. Theme: crafting local responses to global oil and gas depletion through design, policy, and culture. [Flash version now available 5/25]
… Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., … argues that with half of federal farm subsidies currently “flowing to six states to produce 13 commodities that in the main we don’t need, like corn, wheat, cotton, and rice,” there’s a dramatically superior alternative.
We should, says Blumenauer, “use that money to build sustainable agriculture, create a farmer’s market in every community, help farmers protect our land and water, preserve our viewsheds, foster land banks and control erosion.” …
India: Peak Oil? Grow sugar cane / Australian Dep. PM fears for oil reserves / Possum News Network on PO / Detailed LNG analysis / British lawmaker: Iraq war was for oil / Mexico defends oil policy after U.S. comment / Canadian oil sands: vast but dirty / China moves fast to claim oil sands / Opec remarks may pump oil price / Oil prices to fall to $30-40 in 2006-07 – EBRD / Oil prices to top $60 by autumn, analysts warn / Oil hunt: India, China to join hands
BBC Online are holding a poll on which story readers want to see more coverage of.
In Lisbon, Portugal during May 19-20th 300 people gathered from around the world to discuss the inevitable. The title of the event was the 4th International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion. This was a meeting of the Peak Oil community.
Day three of a seven day series on Peak Oil by Canada’s Globe and Mail, investigating ‘what awaits the world as the reserves dry up’. Many articles already.
Kenneth Deffeyes interviewed / Richard Heinberg interviewed / Kunstler feeling paranoid / Answering a Peak Oil skeptic / And so it begins … / OPEC pumping at full capacity / Oil industry looking at renewables / Bolivia epitomizes fight for natural resources / Dirty secret: coal plants could be much cleaner / Canadian oil showdown: tribes vs oil sands / GE CEO is onboard with clean energy / Time is ripe for urban agriculture / The Cascade Agenda: 100-year conservation plan covering 1.26 million acres around Seattle – largest vision in the US
Mr Anderson says the world could reach peak production of oil and gas far sooner than predicted because of the rapid increase in energy demands in China. “We are using stored energy left over from ages gone by at an alarming rate and it isn’t re-making,” he said.
