Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Interview with Jeremy Gilbert, former Chief Petroleum Engineer at BP: “I expect to see a peak sometime before 2015, but I don’t think we’ll see a simple maximum followed by a decline. I foresee a series of maxima, each followed by a brief decline.”
Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki was guest editor of the Vancouver Sun for its Saturday, May 5 edition – “definitely a step towards a positive green transformation.”
It is at the point of despair that people can feel deep down their connection to all that has come before them and all that will come after. It is not just their personal futures that are at stake anymore. It is the whole project of human civilization…the future of the natural world.
The failure of the modern faith in progress in an age of peak oil bids fair to leave the field open for radically different ideologies. Is Christian fundamentalism poised to fill the void?
We’re back in the saddle and will be catching up on posts. We’ve been in talks with another organization and hope to have an announcement ready by next week. Thanks for your patience.
Energy Bulletin won’t be posting much for the next few days. Back on Thursday.
The roots of the contemporary crisis of industrial society have little to do with the technical issues that occupy so much of today’s Peak Oil discussions.
Where we live may be to blame for obesity
Corporate subsidies that feed sprawl
New book: How Green is Your City?
Australia’s drought – situation grim
British Gas sees billions in green
Peaking of world oil production: Recent forecasts
Gasoline price rises as supply falls
The Peak Oil Crisis: Have the Troubles Begun
China turns net coal importer
China: Half of natural gas imported by ’20
East Siberian-Pacific Ocean pipeline struggles
Russians get rid of weakening dollar
Community Solutions on “The smart jitney: rapid, realistic transport”
Congestion fee proposed by New York mayor
Californians driving toward global warming: Solution? Smarter land use
Carbon tax threatens to ground Asia tourism
Making online maps bike-friendly
I dream of “green” schools in my community; of parents, students, teachers, and administrators working together to make our children’s education sustainable and earth-friendly.
Tory transport policy to make rail a priority
New Yorker: The soul of the commuter
GM puts brakes on new rear-wheel drive vehicles
