Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Long-term oil gloom spreads in Houston
Heinberg: preparing for a world without oil
Is the decline of base production accelerating? (“hardcore PO wonkery”)
Decline rates from the megaproject forecasts
Wired on WSJ peak oil article
WSJ takes peak oil seriously – need another fringe topic
Peak oil- How will you ride the slide?
Energy Bulletin on the Reality Report
California’s lesson for A low-carbon future
Energize America- starting work on a new version
OPEC considers move off dollar peg, will Russia be first?
U.S. excess vs. nature’s limits
The road to energy conservation
Couldn’t this Green culture that we are nurturing here in the San Francisco Bay Area become part of our cultural pride and identity, that we then spread to the entire state of California? … Perhaps the Chronicle was not far off in using the headline “heartbreaking” about the Bay oil spill. As one activist pointed out, “It is in the breaking of the heart that we truly discover what it is we feel compelled to do.”
Magazine for a sustainable SE Australia
Bill McKibben interview
Managing winter energy bills
Green computing update: components
Emissions by industrialised countries at new high
U.N. says it’s time to adapt to warming
The U.N.’s blunt and alarming final report
Californians’ serious (and sunny) climate outlook
Coal addiction hinders climate cleanup
Castro: Oil costs and development
Southeast Asian leaders back nuclear energy
Nuclear revival in Europe likely
Rep. Bartlett: Why is oil/gas SO expensive?
U.S. Energy Secretary Bodman: not worried by OPEC dollar debate
Peak oil production and the implications to the state of Connecticut (report)
Climate change priority in Australian vote
Do not fear climate: PM
Libs at war over Kyoto
Labor ‘not serious enough on climate change’
Big Gav: Use your vote wisely
More will be asked of us: Revisiting 100 million farmers
Forbes: Food vs fuel
Fuel costs give ag a chill
Farmer of the Year candidate doesn’t use muck
Climate a threat to farming and food supply
Africa: Food production to halve by 2020
Bruce Sterling post-peak short story
Brian Aldiss: Our science fiction fate
Rumpeltstiltskin updated
The Shell Game preview
A growing number of oil-industry chieftains are endorsing an idea long deemed fringe: The world is approaching a practical limit to the number of barrels of crude oil that can be pumped every day. (Excerpt and comments from Dave Cohen of ASPO-USA, Jeffrey Brown, Rep. Bartlett’s staff and Energy Bulletin)
Some 95% of motorized travel and freight movement by land, sea, and air is fuelled by oil products, accounting worldwide for consumption of some 60% of crude oil. …Our assessment of numerous alternatives to oil as a transport fuel concludes that, as oil depletion progresses, only electricity could reasonably power acceptable levels of land transportation.
