Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Financial columnist Scott Burns on peak oil
Geophysicist Klaus Lackner on Fueling the Future
Roscoe Bartlett interview
A simpler way to calculate global oil reserves?
Some insiders reject ‘peak-oil theory’
Oil supply conjecture grips industry
As fossil fuel depletion brings the industrial age to an end, the shift to a much lower level of energy use per capita will bring sweeping changes to every aspect of life. This essay, the first of a series, outlines what a low-energy future would mean for America and its people.
NYT conversation with Lovelock
Economist says time to act on climate change
Report links global warming, storms
Global warming film unites preachers and politics
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) completely discounts the considered opinions of dozens of sober individuals and firms looking into the peak oil issue. Who are these concerned individuals and firms? Steve Andrews lists many of the most prominent.
My emergency planning strategies starts a journey that ends in the garden.
EU: energy investments ‘urgently needed’
Producers: aid must continue for biomass-coal power
Japan’s energy drive – a white elephant?
Fuel for London, a clean-up for Caracas
Jason Bradford is a PhD evolutionary biologist who studied the effects of climate change on cloud forests in the Andes under the auspices of the Missouri Botanical Garden and other institutions. But in 2004 he switched his focus from study to action by initiating a remarkable community organizing effort in his new home town of Willits, California, called Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL).
Chevron’s effort in the Gulf is worth dissecting because it is illustrative of the future of the petroleum industry over the next decades. This article discusses geology.
ASPO Newsletter #69
Jack 2 will be a long time coming
ExxonMobil exec claims Peak oil theories wrong
Predicting the peak
Stormy world of energy has a clear forecaster
Gaviotas
Other economies are possible!
Ditch the car?
Canal dreaming: solving the energy crisis
If gas taxes had been increased 5 years ago
Jack #2 demonstrates a key element of the Peak Oil thesis. That is, that the “easy” oil is gone… The oil that mankind will lift from the earth in the future, on the far side of Peak Oil, will be in faraway places, in harsh climates, under excruciatingly difficult conditions, deep down, heavy, sour, and overall expensive.
Over the past century, our cities have been shaped – literally – by the demands of the automobile. Today, with global oil reserves declining irreversibly, it’s time to face the challenges of the imminent post-oil reality.
