Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Monbiot: The Anti-social bastards in our midst / Heating: Camping out at home / Sweden seeks oil independence / Conserve Energy; Be Idle / Bioremediation in New Orleans / Microscopically Local and Personal Article on Energy / Creating Self Reliant Communities Now
The Politics of Energy and the Environment / The peak oil crisis: sliding down the flagpole / Peak oil piques energy concern / GPM Interviews from ASPO-USA confence: Bezdek, Skrebowski, Simmons, Hickenlooper, Groppe, A. Bartlett, Udall / eMagazine – The outlook on oil
One example of the backlash against “the new catastrophist cult” is examined for relevance to reality.
Technology and Petroleum Exhaustion: Evidence from Two Mega-Oilfields / For peat’s sake – A solution to Ontario’s energy crisis? / Coal reversal / Caution urged with green energy economics / Aramco to expand by 61per cent
Global appetite to boost oil prices / Blair faces organised rebellion on nuclear issue / US Congress blamed for addiction / Watch the price of gas explode / Proposed Long Beach LNG port called “one of the worst possible sites imaginable” / North Slope oil decline leaves Alaskans somber / Heathrow experiences fuel shortages
Long article in urban planning journal that takes depletion seriously and suggests new priorities for the sector.
Russia threatens to cut off Ukraine’s gas supplies / UK energy crisis deepens / The big chill [US gas] / Russia in on Iran-Pak.-India pipeline? / On oil market transperancy / Buncefield depot fire / GoldmanSachs – Oil prices enter “super-spike” phase / Exxon – energy consumption to soar
Calif. Regulators Unveil Solar Power Plan / ConocoPhillips set to buy gas producer Burlington for US$35.6b / Shell spending to rise as costs soar / Shell Lacks Oil Sources, Merrill Says / Venezuela, Iran Sign Deal to Explore Orinoco Oil Reserves
Pemex predicts Cantarell oil production to decline next year (2) / Shell’s Oman Oil Output to Drop a 5th Year / Coal Producers Tired Out / A shortage of heating pellets
Putin: Ukraine Can Afford to Pay Gas Price / Pipeline crunch helps spur surge in LNG prices / Stronger world oil demand growth seen in 2005 – EIA / The Easiest Commute Of All / We will never make poverty history until we rip up the tax system
Neither the mega-cities nor the survivalist’s bunker will be viable in a post-oil future. The places with the best chance of surviving an oil peak will be cities of less than a million people, ranging down to well-placed smaller cities and towns.
How do we create a worthwhile future without a way of visioning it? Rob Hopkins compares environmental disaster movies to some permaculture teaching techniques, and suggests we may need a new superhero to lead us into a post-oil-peak world.
