Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Oil could top $105 in major supply outage: expert /
IMF’s Rato says high oil prices here to stay / Energy Industry Fortifying Plans, Equipment in the Gulf of Mexico /
Helicopter crisis hits oil firms /
China: Stable long-term oil supply predicted (and doubts) /
Would drilling more Alaskan oil cut prices?
Of the more than 6 billion people now on earth, 3.7 billion suffer from some form of malnutrition. For these reasons and others now does not seem like a good time to embark on a program to turn a significant portion of the world’s food crops into fuel for automobiles.
There is no cheap gasoline.
Accept that.
Now get on with your Memorial Day weekend and summer travels, and have a good time.
I’m serious.
Ottawa absent at major climate change conference / Global warming might not be so bad, if we keep our cool /
Sprawl outruns lofty experiment (Biosphere 2)
Use of corn for fuel may push up prices of food /
Author Jeff Goodell on Big Coal /
Coal may be fuel of the future, but industry battles over path / Seven nation group to pursue fusion energy research /
Shale oil and co-products
“Freegans” forage for food in bins / Sustainability conference June 10-11 in Seattle / Richard Register’s proposal for a global rebuilding program / Micropatronage – a new way to finance innovation /
UK: Eco villages springing up all over / Evangelical Virginia farmer sees a revolution against industrial agriculture / Growing hope (gardening in Guantanamo) /
An evening in Peter Harper’s garden / Building with hemp
Matthew Simmons: Tight oil supplies (new slides) /
John Gray: Rather than face up to climate change humanity may opt to let it happen / Leggett:
Cars are killing the planet, but there is an alternative
Planet Of Slums (links) /
China’s oil supply faces risks, expert says /
Saudi oil output ‘dips to lowest in year’ /
Iran plays China card with Japan on oil deal /
Shi’ite faction menaces Iraq’s Basra oil exports
An Energy Vulnerability Summit in Petaluma, California, was perhaps the first time in history that local government officials have gotten together to learn about and discuss peak oil.
BBC Docu-drama May 30: “If… The Oil Runs Out” / St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Will we run out of oil? / Dubai: Peak-oil theory and its development implications
The food vs. ethanol production debate is beginning to heat up. However it will be short one, writes Tom Whipple. While there are acceptable alternatives to putting corn into your gas tank such as slowing down, staying home, taking a bus, or joining a car pool, there are no substitutes for eating.
A veteran of 40 years of demonstrations, the American folk singer’s latest campaign involves camping in a tree to save a 14-acre farm from the developers (South Central Farm in Los Angeles)
