Peak Oil – Apr 11
Kunstler – Spring Break
Now You See It… Now You Don’t
Radio Free America this weekend
ASPO-USA’s “Peak Oil Review” now posted online
Staff
George Monbiot on Peak Oil and Transition Towns
“Over the past two or three years or so, I’ve become pretty sure that peak oil isn’t as imminent as I first thought. There are a couple of reasons for this.”
Oil Industry – Apr 11
What Iraq’s new oil law says about the invasion?
Getting tough with the petro-elites
Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields
Canada’s oil services struggle
Cycles of sustainability
Conventional wisdom in the peak oil community holds that the arrival of the worldwide production peak will be followed by soaring prices into the indefinite future. Recent history argues this may not be true — and if it isn’t, the challenge to any constructive response to peak oil may be even worse than it already is.
Decline Rates and Non-OPEC Supply
Every year, baseball starts up in the Spring and there are rosy forecasts for supply growth in the non-OPEC oil supply. 2007 is no exception. Wood Mackenzie’s Non-OPEC Increases to Continue in 2007 announces the good news.
Dysfunction – Apr 9
Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips – Grim vision of the future from the UK military
Stop shopping … or the planet will go pop
Trade war with China?
The Design Imperative
Our quality of life, both collectively and individually, is more dependent on how we use our energy than on how much of it we use. We can better influence our quality of life through improving technics than through increasing energy.
A peak by any other name is still a peak
The debate over the exact timing of peak oil really comes down to this: How much running room do we have before we go off a cliff?
Food & agriculture – Apr 9
Britain’s green revolution on the home front
Edible City: Part 2
The fruited plain: corn boom-and-bust
Climate – Apr 9
Monbiot interview at Newsweek
Carbon copy: Should journalists give up flying?
Mayors take the lead in U.S.
The fungus that came to Canada
U.S. energy policy – Apr 9
Pelosi, Clinton, Obama favor nuclear plants
Forces dig in for California LNG battle
Conservatives warm to climate: nuclear, dams, thinning forests
Climate, water, mountains – Apr 8
Dire warming report too soft, scientists say
Michael Klare: Wars for water?
Mountaineers testify to warming’s effect
The Curse of Akkad
