Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
TOD: Why we (really) may have entered an oil production plateau /
Twilight in China /
Peak oil at Boston conference /
Dead Dinosaurs – todays’s WSJ coverage /
Peak oil guidebook for sustainable living /
More peak oil readership – Hello Kazakhstan and Mongolia!
A growing trend in corporations is to actively pursue plans and policies to address GHG emissions. This trend is not being driven by the widespread acceptance of the science behind climate change but rather by the business case for improving bottom-line results.
ASPO-Australia member James Ward reports that peak oil is reaching acceptance amongst many of Australia’s business and government elites.
Growth in carbon emissions is ‘out of control’ /
News analysis: climate change /
War footing against global warming /
Shameful editorial from Le Monde
The Elf Queen, the sun and the Tower of Tomorrow
Silicon and sun (and sea sponges)
Cheap, superefficient solar
When it comes to taking action on climate change, the focus always seems to be on what each of us can do personally. Perhaps you, too, are wondering what part business, industry and governments have to play?
Snowy Hydro storages reach all-time November low
Drought to hit dinner table
PM quibbles as drought deepens
Grain Drain Down Under
I suspect that our site (peakoil.com), along with some others have been taken off the filtered site list in China’s firewall. This probably represents a change in policy for China. We welcome our Chinese visitors of course & hope to bring them into the conversation.
The approach which is hardest to sell seems like the safest. It relies on the concrete, concerted actions of people everywhere doing things that require no miracles of technology, no rosy assumptions about the future availability of critical resources, and only limited faith in the marketplace. It is an approach that one can get started on today without the enactment of any big government program.
The rise of solar: why the sun is shining on main street
Sharp expands solar cell output by factor of six
Sand Trap – silicon shortages
Jeff Vail on Energy Payback from Photovoltaics and
Investment in Complexity
Manufacturers in the EU will be required to calculate the energy used to produce, transport, sell, use, and dispose of almost every one of its products. And in time, it will set limits on a product-by-product basis of how much energy can be used in a product’s entire lifecycle.
Confidence in Russian deliveries of energy /
Winter energy crunch looming for Russia
