Solutions and Sustainability – Sept 12
Traffic “experiments” and a cure for waves & jams
Petrolius – satire
Book Review – The Worm Forgives the Plough
Book Review – The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Year: 2006
Peak Oil – Sept 12
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
Cities Can Save the Earth: the urban solution to climate change, species extinctions and peak oil
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.
Chevron conquers the rock
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.
Geopolitics – Sept 11
US and UK mercenaries in covert operations in Somalia
‘Resource nationalism’ is squeezing oil users
Gas Pressure destabilising Yushchenko
Japan nervous over Russia’s Sakhalin lawsuit
Why we need a healthcare Hirsch report
A medical ‘Hirsch report’ would provide useful information for planning and implementing mitigation programs, allowing us to manage the significant expected impacts of oil scarcity and energy descent on healthcare systems.
A party plan for raising peak oil awareness
Fun motivates.
Andi and I immediately recognised a novel way to catch people’s interest and a good hook for motivating people to become involved. Put the focus on what we are creating – not what we are leaving behind.
Agriculture (food & fuel)-Sept 10
Our big fat world
Redesigning crops to harvest fuel
Kew boss: the dangers of biofuels
Why our newspaper group is doing this series on climate change
Climate change is the biggest, most significant challenge of the 21st century. That is why the newspapers of the East Oregonian Publishing Co. began this occasional series in March. This series is an extraordinary commitment for a newspaper group of our size. From our varied geographical vantage points, our reporters and editors will describe what scientists, naturalists and ordinary citizens are observing and predicting.
(Pulitzer Prize committee, take note! -EB)
How cities are preparing for global warming & peak oil
Special issue – one of the best yet from HopeDance. All articles are online and free.
Climate – Sept 10
Lovelock: we’ve pushed the Earth too far
Siberian thaw to speed up global warming
Methane belches in lakes supercharge global warming
Oil and gas – Sept 10
Gulf oil find won’t alter prices now
Total chief says world will find oil target tough
Shell: cost, lack of gas are slowing Saudi plans
Oil projects idle as supply of gear, staff runs dry
