Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Dave Cohen With oil prices stuck in the $90’s per barrel range, the official story is that the U.S. economy has shrugged off this year’s price increases. And it is true—the world has not ended yet, the economy has not ground to a halt. Things appear to be going swimmingly now, but the warning signs are there for all to read.
Preparing for Peak Oil– a new report from ODAC
Turkish Weekly: Global peak oil and dollar
Have global stock markets peaked on peak oil?
Spiked reviews A Crude Awakening
Energy decline and national GDP in 2050: the growth of destitution
ODAC News
Marketplace radio series: Is the consumer economy sustainable?
Greek Orthodox leader calls for “less sinful” use of energy resources
Weekend Carbon Emissions
New Sustainability Magazine in Ireland
Green chemistry’s ‘race to innovation’
Fastest rise in UK food prices for 14 years
Frozen vault saves crops for mankind
US good companies accused of ‘cooking the climate’ (with palm oil)
Soil Association’s Patrick Holden: farming and peak oil in Wales (video)
In farm belt, ethanol plants hit resistance
Québec backing away from corn ethanol
The human cost of bio-fuels
Biofuel boom on Deconstructing Dinner
Al Gore, Bill Joy see green economy powered by Silicon Valley
Prospectors claim stretches of ocean, hoping to harness wave energy
Geothermia revisited
US wind power installations to rise 63% in 07
High oil prices push giant shifts in wealth, power
Indian ties with Russia to reach ‘great heights’: PM
Rebuttal to NY Times Venezuela article
The means don’t justify the end over oil
Venezuela proposes OPEC change oil pricing method
Kunstler: Peak money
Is $100 oil as lethal as it looks?
Supercycle buster
It’s as if, facing the firing squad of $100/barrel oil, some CEOs, oil ministers, and energy experts have decided to come clean. Still, in some boardrooms, at the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, denial still rules. The last foxhole of the dead enders remains “increased recovery factors.”
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Economic Gloom
– Peak Oil and the Media
– IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2007
– Energy Briefs
The destructive search for military control amid acute environmental constraint highlights the prescience of pioneering work on global sustainability. (The Club of Rome and The Limits to Growth )
The “Big Five” international oil companies (IOCs) are spending less money on oil exploration in real terms despite a four-fold increase in operating cash flow since the early 1990s.
