Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Jim Kunstler is a neo-con in despair. Many who are familiar with Kunstler’s work will find this statement surprising, perhaps even preposterous. But, in my view, it’s a perfectly logical inference, based on Kunstler’s recent work.
David’s talk focused on understanding how the decline in availability of inexpensive fossil fuels will impact society, and then segued into permaculture’s positive potentiality in the impending Energy Descent world
Colin Campbell Savages Oil Majors’ “Profits from Scarcity” / How Existing Energy Technologies Can Offset Peak Oil / The Enron of OPEC / I Cannot Yet Skin A Deer / Here’s mud in your eye / Looking Back to the Peak: A Letter from the Future / End of Oil / What happens if oil output ‘peaks’? / US Transportation Energy Data Book: A Bible for Oil Deception / Norway’s oil output at 11-year low
World’s third largest exporter blames ‘technical problems’ for decline / Shift on MTBE May Clear Way for Energy Bill / Indonesia hit by petrol shortages / Cubans sweating out summer of power and water shortages / Powering the Future / US energy bill would nearly double ethanol output / Uncertainties Slow Push for Nuclear Plants / Michael Bagley – From Capitol Hill / Unocal Board Accepts Chevron’s Raised Bid
Gas price rumor causes fueling frenzy In Michigan / Surfing the tsunami of change: following up with Plan B preparations / Oilcast: China, The Yuan and oil / Demand Destruction: Sir Bob, Bono and Peak Oil / New Statesman review of Twilight in the Desert / Rationing /
Yemen: Price hike enrages public / Yemen: 13 Dead in Riots Over World Bank-Backed Price Hikes / Shortages aren’t over, Duncan says [Canadian] Energy Minister blames previous government for problems / Hybrid Cars Burning Gas in the Drive for Power / States pull the plug on electricity deregulation / California: Emergency declared for state energy grid / Dilemma over diesel / As prices climb, more drivers flee pumps without paying / China Unpegs Itself / PINR Intelligence Brief: Unocal / Russia ready to deliver 15 million tons of oil to China in 2006 / High fuel costs threaten to choke off Asia’s burgeoning growth
Heaven Help Bus – A visit to Iceland spurs dreams of a hydrogen future / Don’t Get Fresh With Me! / Will quantifying industrial symbiosis improve the world? / Bringing organic farming down to earth / Horse-and-Plow Farming Making a Comeback / Students Flock to Campus Organic Farms / Scientist testifies on global warming / Warming Up to a New Task / A Bid to Chill Thinking – Behind Joe Barton’s Assault on Climate Scientists / Let the Real Climate Debate Begin / US Senate Panel Begins Work on Greenhouse Gas Cuts / Green groups target ExxonMobil in change of tactics / Alaska preserve hangs in the balance / World Bank to Take Lead in New Climate Change Plan
Worldwide energy crunch and how to keep [the power] coming / Roscoe Bartlett tries again / Denial: No, It Really Isn’t Just a River in Egypt, Part 2 / Listening to the experts / Turning tar sands into oil – Potential sources in North America / Norway’s oil output at 11-year low, 2.29 mln bpd / UK Energy Demand to Outstrip Supply / Liquefied gas fills gap left by North Sea decline / Why US is shifting nuclear stand with India / Fuel’s forbidden fruit / Bid by Chevron in oil deal to thwart China / Letter From Ecuador: The High Cost of Oil / Chavez denounces Venezuelan cardinal as coup-mongering “bandit” / Oil Fuels Suriname-Guyana Border Clash / Already tight, oil supply is vulnerable to disruption / Oil companies add value and increase danger / Greenspan warns on fuel, housing / A shrinking crop of young farmers / Japan’s move in East China Sea makes conflict “invevitable”: report / Oil manoeuvres by China, India, challenge US / Opec Loses Its Grip on World Oil Prices
Portugal Pins Energy Hopes on Wind Farm Licenses
/ Beijing digs deep in quest for green energy /
Energy crisis? Take a vacation / Survey shows costs of energy conservation going down / Ecological alarm bell is on our porch – Ocean upwelling is the foundation of life as we know it in the North Pacific / Protecting, Conserving Water Resources Could Save Communities Immense Sums – Report / All fired up – gas exploration and extraction in US Rockies / The Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline: BP’s Time Bomb / Let the Real Climate Debate Begin / Poll says legislators should act on climate / Californians believe impact of warming has already begun / Is Global Warming Leading to Extinction? / Scientists Fear Rising Temperatures Are Endangering Many Species / Blue Skies, Green Cities – US Mayors lead / Clinton warns of global warming dangers / Organic food is a healthy deal
Wanted: A Perfectly Local Chicken / Welcome to Plan B – Preparations and policies for petrocollapse and climate distortion / Slowly, the Shared Car Is Making Inroads in Europe / UK food study reveals hidden £9bn costs of transport / Cultural Revolution, American Style: Unpetroleum / A turn for the better / Danish Scientists Developing Solar Cell / Demand pushes solar panel firm to build new plant / Successful trial of Energetech Wave Energy device / Green Buildings Spring to Life, Thanks to Government Credits / Scientists Raise Alarm About Ocean Health / Unborn Babies Soaked in Chemicals, Survey Finds / Ringing the alarm for Earth / The Revolution Will Be Localized – Sundance getaway converts mayors into climate activists / Climate Scientists See Intimidation in Letter from House Energy Chair
Second U.S. Conference on “Peak Oil” and Community Solutions / It’s the rate of extraction, stupid! / Jason Bradford, founder of the Willits Economic Localization (WELL) / Nicaragua hits the crunch first / How much oil do we really have? / Oil Supertanker Bookings Reach Highest Level This Year in July / Prince sees dollar peg as key to a Gulf ‘euro’ / China lodges solemn representations to Japan’s approval of oil, gas drill / Why Iraq oil money hasn’t fueled rebuilding / Sinister Paradise – Does the Road to the Future End at Dubai? / Oil revolution will shake nation / Four Warnings of the Apocalypse / World angst over rising oil prices / Oil prices alone can’t control demand / Our Post-Oil Future Needs a Push / JAL president says int’l routes under review to cut costs
Rationing and tradable carbon entitlements / Peak oil in Portland / Get ready for future oil shock, [NZ] lobby group warns / Towards Carfree Cities V – Conference in Budapest July 17-23 /
Satellite Sunshine Mapping Benefits Solar Energy / Faced with this crisis / Australia hung out to dry on climate change / Europe’s greenhouse gas trade hots up / Tax cuts push on climate change / Ontario breaks power consumption record, heat wave likely to last for weeks / Scientists Raise Alarm About Ocean Health / Record Hurricane Year has Oil Industry Worried / France Rations Water as Drought Takes Hold / Tasmania facing power crisis /
Shanghai suffers as car culture takes hold / Guns, Germs and Steel on PBS in July / Blue Gold
Writer Steven Lagavulin argues that the comprehensive nature of the problems our society faces in the coming years will not be met by either political or technological means. Instead, we need to face that humankind has reached a critical turning point in which everything that defines modern civilization is about to be washed away. As such, the best response may be to break away from the sinking ship and begin rebuilding now, even before the crisis is upon us.
Simmons – Energy Tsunami Ahead / The Relationship Between a Country’s Income and Energy Consumption per Capita / Oilcast #17: IEA shock markets with predictions / Campbell, Lynch in radio discussion / New age of anxiety dawns / Suez Strikes Back in Bolivia / Korean gov’t agrees energy-saving measures / ASEAN avoids tough issues, touts biofuel as oil fix / Progress noted on China’s strategic reserve / Vancouver airport not ready for oil hike
