Canada and U.S. – Jan 30
Heavy footprint weighs down U.S. empire
Why Cape Breton shakes in the echo of this distant boom (tarsands)
The energy efficiency option
Staff
Climate – Jan 30
Four provinces unite in emissions fight, trumping Harper’s blueprint
Climate plans by New York, Florida prod U.S
Cap and trade: THE economic fairness issue
China weather chaos a sign of things to come
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 30
Sheryl Crow’s peak oil protest song
Cheap at twice the price: sustainable fashion
Europe thinks alternatively in quest to go ‘green’
High oil prices boost energy efficiency
The Sierra Club solution
Many environmentalists and so-called “progressives” cling to dangerously naive beliefs about how to solve America’s liquid fuels problem.
Deep thought – Jan 30
The converging crisis: ecology, energy and economics (Ottawa talk tonight)
A Prosperous Way Down by the Odums
A global view of peopled nature
Water – Jan 29
Peak water in Saudi Arabia
Food and drink giants pledge to reduce water use in UK
Farmers work to conserve water
Energy supplies – Jan 29
The kinder, gentler energy superpower: Canada
The oil majors in Africa: Trickier times ahead for big fish
Supergrid could provide 30% of Europe’s electricity
Norwegian gas will go to highest bidder
Peak oil – Jan 29
TOD blockbuster: “Powering civilization to 2050” by Stuart Staniford
Will peak oil drive relocalization?
Investment guru Jim Rogers: $90 to $100 oil not high enough to slow demand
Barclays Capital: Triple digit oil price regardless of peak
Science 1101 – Petroleum and peak oil
A university near where I live plans to add a short unit on “Petroleum and Peak Oil” to their Science 1101 course for freshman who are not science majors. The university asked me to prepare materials for the unit. (Draft)
Empire – Jan 28
Going bankrupt: Chalmers Johnson on military Keynsianism
An empire from a tub of goo (Canadian tar sands)
Waving goodbye to hegemony (now it’s US, EU, China)
The unraveling of Russia’s Europe policy
Food & agriculture – Jan 28
Farmers, plan ahead to avoid fertilizer shortages
Rethinking the meat-guzzler
A dying breed (animal breeds)
Astyk: How big is a farm? Who is a farmer?
Cuban permaculturalist to tour Australia
Peak Oil Review – January 28th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Trouble in China
– Shell
– Prospects for Iraqi Production
– Energy Briefs
