Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
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Rift widens between producers, consumers
Armageddon on the couch – PeakOilBlues
Australians guzzle oil while supplies dwindle
Byron King on the Gulf of Mexico discovery
Oil supply and demand recent trends
Cornucopians – a guide for the perplexed
Peak oil theorists don’t know Jack
Extra! Oil discovery saves civilization!
Oil find brings gloom to ‘peak oil’ pranksters
Plenty of oil – just drill deeper
Discovery paves way to an oil peak
Byron King cheers Gulf oil discovery, but says ‘no impact whatsoever’ on peak oil
Australians guzzle oil while supplies dwindle
Local PO effort in Queensland
Australian Senate recognizes peak oil
Online official report:
“Australia’s future oil supply and alternative transport fuels”
Tribune correspondent Paul Salopek was set free Saturday by Sudanese authorities who had charged him with espionage, ending more than a month in custody and starting him on a journey home to the United States.
(EB: Salopek is the author of the recent blockbuster report on oil in the Chicago Tribune: A tank of gas, a world of trouble)
Last week Bloomberg, “the leading global provider of data, news and analytics,” published a balanced, carefully researched, 4,200 word article on peak oil. For those of us who follow the peak oil story, this was an event of earth shaking proportions.
Today, 85% of the United States’ energy mix comes from carbon-rich fossil fuels: oil, natural gas, and coal. ..We propose to switch our economy slowly (over 30 to 50 or more years) to nonfossil energy sources by using proven technologies and available, expandable distribution systems. (Excerpts.)
Prof. Keith Barnham on solar and nuclear
Relaunching Energize America; launching Energize Europe
Where’s your ecovillage as meltdown approaches?
New Carpool Website supports Oil Depletion Protocol
What to do about the fact that when I get into a car I feel terrible? No, I do not suffer from motion sickness. This is a different kind of health issue. I am a recovering oil addict and I don’t have a support group.
“A Midnight Ride for Peak Oil,” a peak oil conference sponsered by ASPO-USA and Boston University, is set for Oct 25-27.
Biofuels contribute to some of the very problems they seek to address. The search for a sustainable energy source has uncovered some surprising options.
The third U.S. Conference on ‘Peak Oil’ & Community Solutions will place in Yellow Springs, Ohio – September 22 – 24, 2006.
