Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Tom Whipple As the worldwide oil supply and demands tightens however, the need for timely accurate production statistics becomes increasing important— so much so that at some point, timely and detailed knowledge of world energy supplies may become a matter of critical importance.
If energy sustainability and security fail, the primary human development goals cannot be achieved. We recognize the special responsibility of the science and engineering community to help implement transitions to sustainable and secure energy systems.
The United States’s focus on the middle east, al-Qaida and terrorism is also a surrogate for long-term strategic competition with China for the world’s oil resources.
This year’s world grain harvest is projected to fall short of consumption by 61 million tons, marking the sixth time in the last seven years that production has failed to satisfy demand.
Retired nuclear physicist discovers peak oil / Companies embracing sustainability / Rural Kenya women replace wood fires with solar cookers /
Father of energy efficiency to get Fermi Award / Tour of the Maple Ridge wind farm /
Message board activism: the blogosphere’s mext level / Trolling for dollars (Netvocates)
Bike boulevards: Portland cyclists have streets to call their own / Why Scots are getting on their bikes / Are our cities making us fat? / Minister: China must back-pedal on anti-bike policy / Bicycle round-up / Riding a bicycle can save the world /
Transport experts have seen the future, and it’s got pedals
We now have a devious layer of corporate-financed, pseudo-science spread all over everything like sticky jam. So much so that when we see something clean and pure without that sticky confusing mess, we think that something is missing.
Peak Oil 2010 /
The Real Black Gold (Peak Oil and Coal) /
`Era of cheap energy is over’ – Gazprom /
Oil Plateau Continues /
Simmons on CNN /
‘Heinberg on Peak Oil’ on Free Speech TV
An article about David Fleming’s Why Nuclear Power Cannot Be a Major Energy Source.
Night flights twice as bad for environment / Hungry polar bears turning to cannibalism / Global warming ‘threat to Asian security’ – grim scenario of disease and disaster / Canada wrests oil from sands, but at what cost?
The growing scarcity of oil and natural gas has provoked worldwide political conflict and a mad rush for renewable resources.
A slide presentation describing the main goals of Energize America. This grassroots campaign for a progressive energy policy was initiated by members of the Daily Kos website.
