Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Global energy – how much remains? / Interview with Jan Lundberg / MP3 of Pres. Carter’s energy speech / Energy crisis 1974 in Science magazine / May ASPO newsletter / Salon debunks energy independence / worst case scenario – Peak Oil America / July Playboy uncovers PO / T. Boone Pickens on PO / Oil problems in Venezuela / NY Times hesitant about nuclear / UK Greens warn that Labour will bring nuclear / Rising call: Cut US oil imports / US wants “Clean Coal” / more
The portrayal by the IEA of the possibility of an unbroken continuation of future growth in oil supply is, given the clearly recognizable limitations, a false and dangerous signal.
The United States is gearing up to build a new generation of nuclear power plants but will probably have to import many of the component parts for them, the nation’s top nuclear regulator said on Tuesday.
UK: The humble bicycle has won a national survey of people’s favourite inventions conducted by the BBC.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, Greenpeace, and much of the environmental movement, made a sharp turn to the political left and began adopting extreme agendas that abandoned science and logic in favour of emotion and sensationalism.
New Zealanders will pay an extra NZ$2.90 (£1.11) a week for electricity, petrol and gas when the country becomes the first in the world to introduce a carbon tax to address global warming.
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett discusses his special order speeches about Peak Oil to the US Congress and how the public has responded to them. Transcript now available.
Now that everyone agrees oil production is in decline, what’s next?
Maybe Iran does need nuclear / NZ Maori Party recognizes Peak Oil / New Yorker has more on climate change / Helen Caldicott isn’t budging on nuclear / Scotland ministers want super powers for new projects / Rich nations worried about oil supplies (news?) / US tones down Venezuela rhetoric / Story of energy = story of civilization / Cities lead way on climate change / Human taxi-tricycles in Germany
More than 16 per cent of the European Union’s land is affected by soil degradation, but in the accession countries more than a third is affected, according to the first Soil Atlas of Europe, published last week.
Onward soldiers! The War on Nature is nearly won!
We are already living on an overloaded world. Our future will be a product of that fact; that fact is a product of our past. Our first order of business, then, is to make clear to ourselves how we got where we are and why our present situation entails a certain kind of future. [Chapter 2 from William Catton’s classic book Overshoot]
