The Victory of the Commons
Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom proved that people can—and do—work together to manage commonly-held resources without degrading them.
Jay Walljasper
Post Carbon and Energy Bulletin
Post Carbon Institute announced January 14 that it was adopting EnergyBulletin.net as a core program. In this post, EnergyBulletin.net’s Managing Editor introduces EB and explains why he thinks this marriage is a good thing: “With social changes coming faster than ever, we need a more robust organization so we can continue to support the community that’s grown up around peak oil and sustainability.”
Monbiot interviews Fatih Birol
Peak oil gets a good play in the UK Guardian today, as George Monbiot interviews Dr. Fatih Birol of the International Energy Agency (video). Other articles describe the IEA’s recent report and what it means for peak oil.
Reducing Oil Dependence Without Triggering A Global Crisis
Peak-ignorant but compelling discussion of the options facing oil exporting nations in the carbon-sensitive future.
2020 Scenario: OPEC May Be Replaced
It’s 2020, and the energy ministers of the Organization of Gas-Exporting Countries, known as OGEC, the umbrella for the dozen or so nations which dominate the market, gather in Madrid for their annual get-together to determine production quotas and price levels for the new primary energy source that fuels the global economy , natural gas, or more specifically, liquefied natural gas, known as LNG.
