Housing & group living – Aug 29
Flash! – communes on the rise again
Think small, think local (Earthaven)
Real estate: smaller to become better
Curbing the big, the bad, the ugly in L.A.
Staff
Food & agriculture – Aug 28
– Alice Waters: Slow food nation
– One thing to do about food: A forum
(Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Wendell
Berry, Winona LaDuke, Dr. Vandana Shiva…)
– Stewards of wine land (sustainable vinyards)
– California seeks to clear hemp of a bad name
– Black farms, black markets
– Local food in small towns (interviews)
ASPO 5. Dennis Meadows – Peak Oil and Limits to Growth
‘Limits to Growth’ was criticised for predicting that oil would run out and for being wrong in that prediction. However, oil depletion is not mentioned once in the original 1972 report, this is a completely bogus criticism.
ASPO 5. Skrebowski tells us there’s 1,500 days until the Peak, & closing thoughts on ASPO 5
Skrebowski: “Decoding the figures in the new IEA report is akin to decoding the Da Vinci Code. In my work I am not a pessimist, and I observe what oil companies do, not what they say.”
ASPO 5. Jeremy Leggett Intertwines Peak Oil and Climate Change.
This talk will look at peak oil in the context of climate change, the conflagration of two huge problems, what we might think of as the Two Great Oversights of our times.
Peak oil and Bakhtiari’s 4 phases of transition
“The four Transition periods (T1, T2, T3, and T4) will roughly span the 2006-2020 era. …The major palpable difference between the four Ts is their respective gradient of oil output decline — very small for T1, perceptible for T2, remarkable in T3, and rather steep for T4. In fact, this gradation in decline is a genuine blessing for those having to cope and adapt.”
– Dr. A.M.S. Bakhtiari, Iranian oil expert
Climate – Aug 27
– Radical changes in global tourism coming
– Labour plays the green card
– Carbon trading good for Aussie business?
– Weather Channel, Afro-Americans and
climate change
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 27
– In praise of zealous nuts
– Permaculture – permanent agriculture
– NPR: eating local, thinking global
– My low-carbon diet
– “Sustainable well-being” – theme of
2007 AAAS conference
Iranian energy politics – Aug 27
– Inside Iran’s nuclear machine: what makes
them tick?
– Iran-China transactions up USD253m
– Iran’s oil output up
– IEA looks to Opec to boost oil production
if Iran cuts
– US vs. Iran: Is an attack inevitable?
– Ex-official explains Iran’s wariness
National energy policy – Aug 27
– Bracks urged to think ahead as ‘oil runs out’
– Bush’s first energy rule: efficient enough?
– Crumbling U.S. infrastructure
Exploring emotional reactions to peak oil
I’m a psychologist, I’m not a geologist, financial expert, political analyst or economist. Yet, my world was dramatically changed when I learned about Peak Oil and began to read about all the related issues.
Simmons-Kunstler interview
A joint interview with Matt Simmons and Jim Kunstler, conducted just after they had met for the first time in November last year. Remarkably – even though both men came from vastly different backgrounds – they had basically reached the same conclusions regarding Peak Oil.
