Economics – Oct 15
Dow CEO on energy and economic growth
Dupont’s sustainability commitment
Germany’s Merkel calls competition key to power prices
Year: 2006
Climate – Oct 15
Citing heavenly injunctions to fight earthly warming
Climate change is expensive. Does that help?
Climate change inaction will cost trillions
New combatant against global warming: insurance industry
It’s official: climate change changes everything
Geopolitics – Oct 15
Chomsky: U.S. intervention in Venezuela and in Latin America
Iraq envoy: U.S. oil investment waiting on legal changes
China drills where others dare not seek oil
Peak Oil – Oct 14
The world’s shortest Peak Oil article
Large increase of Peak Oil coverage in printed press
NYT: The Deathwatch for Cheap Oil
Kunstler: Swan Dive
Kunstler: Peak oil and tradable paper currencies
Lundberg: Peak Oil naysayers partying on for growth
Peak Moment Television: new episodes
Audio: Andrews & Lawrence on ASPO USA Boston Conference
Audio: Energy expert Hughes gives preview of talk at ASPO
Coal – Oct 13
Even coal (clean or not) will not save the US way of life
Kremlin seeks more coal use in Russia amid gas shortage
Massive coal mine blaze still burning
Output drop hurts UK Coal
Long live the Pentagon
The US military oil consumption is generally regarded to be a small amount compared to the country’s gigantic consumption. Since oil is and will remain a strategic vital commodity, the Pentagon does not have a luxury of turning its back to oil.
Food & agriculture – Oct 13
How Long Can the World Feed Itself?
Time to become a “locavore”
Locavores in Willits?
Breakfast of Chumps
Green is the New Black in Ethical Britain
Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting
As today’s economics of imaginary wealth comes apart under the stress of peak oil, talk about a “new economy” misses the point. What’s needed — and can be built, starting with actions on a personal scale — is an old economy, in which money exchanges play a much smaller role.
Hubbert’s Defense Department
The U.S. military machine is built on and around cheap and available “mobility fuel,” and virtually its entire body of doctrine is founded on pre-Peak Oil thinking. If the world is at or fast approaching a state of Peak Oil, where does that leave us?
Proposing Plan C
Participants at last month’s Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions learned how they must use less energy, save and share resources and grow food in their communities. This response to the coming peak and permanent decline of global oil production, is dubbed “Plan C: Curtailment, Cooperation, and Community.”
Ethanol & renewables – Oct 12
St Louis renewable energy conference (day 1)
Report: Brazilian ethanol is sustainable
The trouble with ethanol (Patzek)
The ethanol alternative (ABC)
Oil Giants put energy Into other resources
Oil – Oct 12
World Oil Exports: A Comprehensive Projection
Oil price volatility and possible consequences
Lower gas prices won’t last, say UC-Davis professors
EU oil imports set to grow by 29% by 2012
Putin Suggests Creation of Oil Exchange in St. Petersburg
America’s dirty secret: India becomes the gasoline gusher
How Hot Money Inflames Oil Prices
