Housing & urban design – Aug 21
New guidebook: Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty
Astyk: The brother-in-law on your couch vision of the apocalypse
Mud: building block of the future
Staff
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 21
Better living through green chemistry
Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour (interview about new movie)
Simple and cheap: Nepal’s application of science
Astyk: Cut your laundry energy
$100 laptop, meet the $100 desktop
Young people say family, friends make them most happy
Peak oil – Aug 21
US peak oil adaptation: prognosis in a credit crunch
The economics of oil: supply & demand
Gail the Actuary: What should we do now?
Peak oil in Trinidad – less faith
Conservationists cannot escape Laws of Energy
Planning for a decline in our oil bounty
How bad is peak oil, really?
Peak oil news – Aug 21
Hurricane Dean to make landfall in Mexico today: Cantarell now in Dean’s sights
Hurricane’s impact on oil infrastructure
Open letter to Duncan Clarke (PO skeptic)
High oil prices and the new dirty energy
Peak Oil Digest from Cornwall
Share slump and credit crunch: passing peak oil
The unfolding financial turmoil may eventually be seen as a historic event. Another turning point, the worldwide peak in oil production, is a key player in this unfolding drama, although its role goes unnoticed by most in the audience.
How to push the oil levers in the wrong direction
If crude oil is becoming scarce, the first reaction often is, “where can we find more of it?”
Climate camp’s media mismanagement
No argument was ever won by people trying to hide or manipulate freedom of movement or speech. It is an ugly culture that cannot welcome its potential friends, and debate with its enemies, and which feels it must control people’s perceptions so crudely.
Peak Oil Review – August 20, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Iraq
– Rumblings from Canada
– Energy Briefs
Do EIA natural gas forecasts contain systematic errors?
Research findings give considerable face validity to criticisms by some commentators (e.g. American Association of Petroleum Geologists) that EIA forecasts present a consistently “optimistic” view of NG – e.g. underestimating price and overestimating supply.
“Peak oil” becomes burning issue
Swiss scientists say politicians and the public should have a greater awareness of “peak oil” – the moment when the world’s maximum crude oil output is reached. “It’s as if we planned to climb the Matterhorn to get to the summit at midnight, leaving it much too late to descend.”
Bikes – Aug 20
Kenya: Levies threaten to push boda bodas off the roads
State of cycling (in NYC)
Beijing to rent out 50,000 bicycles ahead of Olympics
The one-of-a-kind wooden bicycle
Paris goes cycling mad, declares vélorution
The complexity of modern life
Failure of complex systems comes about not because the systems fail to accomplish their nominal purpose, but as a result of unintended consequences of the interactions of the component parts.
