Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Environmentalist David Suzuki on PO / Bartlett says no to energy bill / Anticiper la fin du pétrole / The green dream is alive / The (oil) quicksand trap / Bill McKibben says we’re in denial / House energy bill is no big shakes / The Saudis make promises / Indonesian president wants renewables / Bill McKibben looks for enviro-conscious art / Wangari Maathai says to take hope / more
PO means we need to get out of our cars / IMF urges oil data transparency / Energy bill full of pork / Underwater crystals may yield energy / India loves its trains / Eat local / Cross between car and bike
NG industry insider talks / CS Monitor: Good-bye cheap gas / America’s peak experience / PO a myth, says OPEC / Farmers hear about PO / ODAC report / Greenspan wants an energy policy / Republican says hydrogen is B.S. / more
NYT: We need an energy strategy / US is an oil-addict / NZ Greens keep PO in news / Analyst Roach sees $ woes ahead / The Goldman Sachs analyst who predicted $105/barrel oil / BC scores badly on Cascadia scorecard / Where would ANWR oil go? / Maybe oil prices aren’t so bad / China low on fuel / Matt Simmons has a new book / more
Interview with New York Times columnist and “geo-green” advocate Thomas Friedman
The New Zealand Green Party in anticipation on an election this year, is beginning to prepare by advertising on billboards throughout the country about Peak Oil.
What will [Peak Oil] mean for a country as dependent on oil as Ireland (Ireland has the 7th highest consumption per person of any country in the world, the USA is 30th)? We import over 80% of our food, and over 85% of our energy. How can we become more self-reliant, and thus less at the mercy of international events?
Special issue on Peak Oil. Some articles are online now, others will be put online later.
Thackara is interested in more than analyzing efforts and predicting trends. He wants design to help create a better future. But many trends and opportunities to build what’s necessary for that future converge in the local.
Japan has begun allocating gas exploration rights in an area of the East China Sea also claimed by China.
In his latest commentary, Morgan Stanley’s Stephen Roach, perhaps the only Wall Street economist who at least partially comprehends the looming economic danger, once again lamented that a “co-dependent global economy can’t live without the excess consumption of Americans.”
The longing for the simpler times of my childhood when the unreliable third world electrical grid went down and my extended family of aunts came outside to sit in the dark and talk to me. It was an awake-to-the-moment, off routine, no TV, intimacy that was somehow magical. This, if we could get through the dark times of loss and chaos, was something to look forward to.
