Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Fuel economy tips / Presentations from New Urbanism conference (including Kunstler & Darley) /
Ranchers and farmers find a silver lining in the conservation cloud / Author finds sprawl isn’t the be-all and end-all / USDA ID-tag plan for farm animals has some small-scale farmers unhappy
Attacks on Iraq’s northern pipelines cease, oil exports boom / Ford bails out on hybrid promise / Kuwait’s election is a setback to international oil companies / Rep. Bartlett opposes offshore oil drilling / Europe tries to persuade Russia on energy with trade deal / Eyeing energy supplies from opposite ends of a telescope (exporters vs consumers)
Cautionary tales amid the latest coal revival / Gas companies on ‘treadmill’ of demand / Kuwaiti experts predict steady rise in oil prices / Washington Post:
the false hope of biofuels / Malaysia suspends biodiesel effort / Helping Air Force blue turn green
Urban location, housing debt and oil vulnerability in the Australian City / How to define ‘energy security’? / ASPO Newsletter for July / National Education Association alerted to peak oil
The president of the Earth Policy Institute
explains his ideas on how to put the world economy back on a stable ecological footing.
I am a health care professional, and as far as I know hardly anyone in my field is paying serious attention to Peak Oil.
Audio: Peak Oil and the Environment in Washington /
Kunstler and Darley: The Post-Carbon Society – An Overview /
U.S. Army War College: Preemptive Energy Security: An Aggressive Approach to Meeting America’s Requirements /
La Plata County: Methane production past its peak
I can’t help but wonder if people only loved coal as I do–that is, enough to leave it alone as it so clearly wants us to do–how different the world would be, how different our future would look.
‘The real enemy is not peak oil, it’s resource nationalism’ (Not) / Greenhouse gases, ‘peak oil’ ruled out of order on offshore drilling legislation / Kunstler interviews / Gore on peak oil and climate change
America’s air-conditioned nightmare /
50 years driving in the wrong direction: the U.S. Interstate Highway System / World weighs in on global warming / Al Gore 3.0 / U.S. emits half of car-caused greenhouse gas / Global warming may not lead to greater crop yields
Meg Wheatley – the power of chaos /
We must preserve the earth’s dwindling resources for my 5 children / Think you would be happier if you were richer? Think again / Bogota’s mayor’s happy ‘war on cars’ /
“Made to Break” reveals the roots of our throwaway culture / High tech trash: Elizabeth Grossman
Outsourcing and energy dominate Fortune’s discussion about the economy / Australia: Howard faces balancing act over China /
Petro-hysteria grips a superpower
