Planning for the future of farming
California farmland faces threats from development at the same time food security is threatened by global energy descent.
D.C. Stein
Guns and sunshades to rescue climate
Is there a silver bullet that can help us to limit the amount of climate change? Some such “silver bullets” aim to scrub carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere, some to cool Earth directly by veiling it; others are yet more radical.
Peak oil – Mar 7
Sustainable fossil fuels (Dr. Mark Jaccard) /
Tragedy prompts personal peak oil website /
NZ branch of ASPO started /
The Oil Drum empire expands to the UK /
Ex-CIA head and environmentalists agree on no-oil thinking /
Revisiting the Olduvai Theory /
Peak Oil becoming de facto /
Poster child of the collapse /
An energy Pearl Harbor?
Other energy – Mar 7
Lovins: Winning the oil endgame (talk) /
The real cost of electricity /
Gov. Schweitzer’s coal-to-fuels program: What you didn’t hear on ‘60 Minutes’ /
Life in a grass house (the viability of switchgrass) /
Kuwaiti MP demands truth on Kuwaiti oil
Environment – Mar 7
You’re a good man, Lester Brown (interview) /
Anaesthetist turned climate change expert on Radio NZ /
Antarctic ice sheet losing mass /
White House spin reaches science research
Teaching a student-led course on peak oil
When I first read James Howard Kunstler’s Rolling Stone excerpt last year, I knew I needed to know more about peak oil. Thousands of pages later I have a far more nuanced picture, and am now back at college teaching a course on peak oil. (Syllabus included)
Another look at near-term oil supplies
How the predictions of Cambridge Energy Research Associates are faring thus far based on 2005 production figures.
North Carolina peak oil conference
Triangle conference on peak oil and community solutions to be held March 25 at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
US: Army War College on energy security
An overview of US and international energy policy, including the prospects for an economy based on renewable energy, the security problems likely to result from tightening oil supplies, and a possible basis for making the transition to alternatives.
America’s strategic imperative: a “Manhattan Project” for energy
The current world energy situation poses a national threat unparalleled in 225 years… Concurrent with rising demand [for oil] are indications that world production may soon peak, followed by permanent decline and shortage. Moreover, most of the remaining oil is concentrated in distant, politically hostile locations, inviting interdiction by enemies.
Peak oil – Mar 5
Simmons:
What a difference 20 years make in crude oil prices (“What peak oil really means”) /
Natural gas demand destruction /
December the peak? /
ASPO-USA response to ExxonMobil peak oil advertising /
Dr. Robert L. Hirsch joins ASPO-USA advisory board /
Everybody’s an expert: putting predictions to the test
Other energy – Mar 4
Renewable energies to transform farmers into ‘energy moguls’ /
Russia challenged by nuclear woes /
U.S. eyes Alberta oilsands as key part of supply /
ExxonMobil drilled dry North Sea well off Norway /
Tough talk about oil (“Children of the Sun” book review)
