Peak oil – Nov 27
TOD: Help us list megaprojects
Where enhanced oil recovery (EOR) succeeds and where it does not
Oil prices to keep rising as demand grows
Norway sees no respite to high oil prices
Staff
Peak oil in the media – Nov 27
Radio Netherlands: The Age of Petroleum draws to a close (Michael Klare)
Matt Simmons on NPR
TIME business columnist: Maybe those peak oil people weren’t crazy after all
ODAC News
Oil prices – Nov 27
Fortunes shift as oil prices soar
A big toll on small oil businesses
Fuel prices produce gasps, fumes in Eastern Sierra town
Gas thefts on the rise
Oil industry – Nov 27
Big Oil PR blitz suggests the un-reformed industry just wants to be friends – so shut up!
Gail the Actuary’s visit to Shell’s Brutus off-shore oil/gas platform
Oil and gasoline prices: The crack spread
So much money in environmental devastation that it can’t be stopped?
China and India – Nov 27
China calls for warning system to ensure oil supplies
Subsidised fuel weighs on India’s budget
UK: nuclear, airport and homes – Nov 27
Brown to endorse new generation of nuclear power and Heathrow airport expansion
A dogma that has had its day
New terminal planned for Heathrow
Brown: Britain’s prosperity depends on airport expansion
George Monbiot for building 3 million homes
United States – Nov 27
Kucinich, Clinton, and Edwards on climate and energy
Why is Dick Cheney smiling?
The falling dollar and prestige (Daniel Yergin of CERA)
Peak oil activists gather, plan for hard times, will lead the way
Former professor and author David Korten told close to 300 applauding peak oil activists that they are not a fringe minority but the leading edge of a super-majority “and it’s time we start acting like it.” Korten issued his rallying call in October at the “Fourth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions” in Yellow Springs Ohio last October.
Where the wild things are
For the past four years, Adam Grubb has been acquainting himself with the medicinal and nutritional qualities of plants that thrive on neglect, often in poor soils, on marginal land. He says his interest in weeds sprang from his work as founding editor of Energy Bulletin.
The lovely, life-saving virtue of laziness
The work ethic, before which our culture bows down in adoration, can result in failure perhaps as often as it does success. I came to that conclusion after many years of trying to follow an ecologically-sustainable lifestyle out on the ramparts of society.
Adaptive responses to peak oil
Many of the proposals made so far to deal with the crisis of industrial society have centered on massive programs with huge price tags and few options in case of failure. A look at more flexible approaches may be in order.
Food & agriculture – Nov 26
Perennial crops: The garden that keeps giving
Localise and go organic to avert post-peak famine – Heinberg
Biofuel and diet sow seeds of farm crunch (Malthus revisited)
Down on the farm with your sleeves rolled up
Some plants you should consider growing
