Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi is the Greenspan of energy /
Rural rights activists wreck Brazilian plantation /
Slavery underpinned the Georgian economy as oil does ours /
In Dubai, an outcry from Asians for workplace rights /
North Sea tax revenue cut by £1.5bn /
Uganda loses 26% forest cover
Sea rise could be ‘catastrophic’ /
Global warming will change Pacific Northwest /
The pollution gap /
Time reporter Eugene Linden on climate change /
A new ethics needed to save life on Earth /
Seattle to Kyoto: You can’t get there by car
Cover story of TIME magazine: The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Never mind what you’ve heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.
How horticulture and related fields (such as urban forestry) might evolve to assist the transition to an economy without cheap oil.
On Tuesday I had a conversation with a few Senior Executives in the Department of the Interior about how to solve the Peak Oil problem–and we all came to the same conclusion: there is a structural block to the solution to this problem…
Until very recently the expectations on long term price of oil were extraordinarily stable – at around 20$/bl. Thexe expectations have changed remarkably quickly during the past 2 years
What I eat for breakfast connects me to the planet, deep into its past with the fossilized remains of plants and animals which are now fuel, as well as into its future, when these non-renewable resources will likely be in scant supply.
If the peak oil crisis comes upon us quickly, the Department of Defense could turn out to be the one organization with the appropriate project management skills and contracting expertise to tackle the consequences of peak oil on a timely basis.
Global warming appears to be pushing vast reservoirs of ice on Greenland and Antarctica toward a significant, long-term meltdown. The world may have as little as a decade to take the steps to avoid this scenario.
If the price of oil shot to $100 a barrel tomorrow, which American cities would be able to survive economically?
Sweden plans wood-fueled future /
Europe eyes Brazillian sugar to fuel its cars /
Shell shocked: People of the Niger Delta fight back /
Iraqi oil: ‘Invasion has backfired’ /
Reheating the Cold War (Energy, Russia and the West) /
Africa must look to its own oil needs /
Running out of natural gas in North America
Los Alamos physicist: Is there energy for all in the 21st century? /
Review of Tertzakian’s “A Thousand Barrels A Second” /
oGE – a Portuguese peak oil website /
Rep. Bartlett and OilCrash /
Washington DC Petrocollapse conference May 6 /
Dublin April 19-23: ‘Learning to Live With Less Fossil Fuel’ /
India: Time for Plan B for energy security?
