Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Annie Leonard A new short film released today online takes viewers on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of this use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.
Brazil’s announcement of the Tupi discovery created a lot of buzz in the oil industry and the press. Let’s take a closer look at Brazil’s oil production and what role the Tupi field will likely play in the future.
U.S. policy on Russia currently amounts to this: “You hurt my feelings.” It would be better to focus on issues, and the main one is energy, the foundation of Russian — and Putin’s — power.
Proposals for dealing with the onset of peak oil often focus on large-scale, ideologically defined solutions. A more modest piecemeal approach may offer more options in the unpredictable future ahead of us.
China releases draft energy law
Italians warned of looming energy shortfall
Vietnam to stop subsidizing oil in 2008
Wind power sets sail from crowded Germany
Tension over oil at the edge of Alaska
Auto industry backs CAFÉ deal
Lawmakers to raise fuel efficiency
The candidates on energy
New push for ‘green collar’ jobs
Petrodollar greenfare
The Finance Round-Up
50 years on: The Keeling Curve legacy
Thomas Homer-Dixon: We may have to ‘geo-engineer’ the climate
Earth’s tropics belt expands
Call to save Himalayan glaciers
Durham NC may face water crisis
Rudd’s warm Kyoto reception
The global warming battle: united we stand, divided we fall
Australia signs up to Kyoto deal to end 10-year exile
Climate campaigner’s road from ‘raving idiot’ to Australian of the year
Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari, one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject of peak oil, died suddenly and unexpectedly on October 30 of a heart attack. During this century he spoke out and wrote early and often about the subject of peak oil and its looming consequences.
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The OPEC Meeting
– The Venezuelan Election
– Energy Briefs
Der Spiegel: US seeks alliance with China and India to block climate protection
Canadian government hiding damaging climate report: critics
Air travel and Bali climate conference
China, India urged to curb energy use
Environmental group claims responsibility for bogus USCAP release
Does the latest IEA number matter?
Trends directing flow of capital into oil markets
World likely to rely on Saudi oil
Hirsch warns about peak oil
Of hierarchies, thresholds and oil
Peak oil in the Australian media
ODAC news
Peak Oil Review from ASPO-USA
