Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Steve Levine The center of gravity of power is shifting relentlessly from the West. The most successful cars are made in Japan. The power of the purse is shifting to less profligate countries like Singapore, and petro-powers like Kuwait. Manufacturing has gone to China. Energy is in the hands of Saudi Arabia, Russia and others.
Israel cuts off Gaza’s electricity
Pipeline cements Russia’s hold on Europe’s gas supply
Why Russia is winning the pipeline war: Putin
Peak Oil is about RATE. And RATE is dependent on the SIZE, AGE and QUALITY of the RESERVES.
Australian grain farmer: “Cellulosic ethanol will stretch fertilizer resources and drive farmers even further away from sustainability.”
Petrol in Venezuela ‘almost free’
Probability of US recession growing: energy secretary
Oil falls again on signs US is in recession
Dry, polluted, plagued by rats: the crisis in China’s greatest river
Europe power stations to capture carbon
Texas is biggest carbon polluter
Climate talk’s cancellation splits a town
Europe takes Africa’s fish, and boatloads of migrants follow
Roadkill and sustainability
Should we be eating insects?
Farmer Jay Martin on CSAs
Community Solutions: Food, health and survival
CERA v. peak oil
World not running out of oil, say experts
Bush acknowledges peak oil
The coal question revisited
Climate change (and PO) force car manufacturing rethink
IPCC chief Pachauri: Lifestyle changes can curb climate change
Satish Kumar on nature, spirituality and activism
Christians playing their part in sustainability
Astyk: Making the case for self-sacrifice
A sustainability Renaissance man
Building green
Retrofitting your house for sustainability
Kunstler on the human habitat
“Some of the more gloomy, pessimistic ‘peak oil’ views about the future of oil supplies result from an assumption of high decline rates. This new analysis provides the basis for more confidence about the future availability of oil.”
A number of recent reports suggest that coal reserves may be hugely inflated, a possibility that has profound implications for both global energy supply and climate change.
