Two wheels good – July 6
Bicycles in Africa: Transportation for everything (wooden bikes)
French revolution: Rentable bikes every 900 feet
Staff
Peak Oil – July 6
Leaks from NPC report on peak oil: “Accumulating risks to world energy supply”
Non-OPEC peak oil threat receding
Canadian energy round-up
A peak oil tale
Solutions & sustainability – July 5
LiveEarth pledge (two versions)
Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
Steady state economy (Brian Czech intvw)
Web site helps you find energy-use profile
Nelson: Oil a factor in Australia's Iraq deployment
The Howard Government has today admitted that securing oil supplies is a factor in Australia’s continued military involvement in Iraq.
Imaginary countries
July 4th’s civic rituals across America celebrate the triumph of pragmatic politics in a very different age. Do the events of 1776 have a lesson for us on the edge of peak oil?
Energy, climate and the future of health
“If our public health and health-delivering institutions are to adapt to major natural environmental changes in the 21st century, they must develop a cooperative, conceptually inventive and integrated response to global warming and peak oil.” (A working issue brief being circulated to health departments and hospital administrators across the country.)
Honest John?
Australian PM John Howard and Defence Minister Brendan Nelson have finally decided to adopt the realist position on the Iraq war and admit that it is about controlling the oil.
Leaving the morality of the situation aside, the debate should now focus on a full cost benefit analysis of whether the price we will pay for this exercise in militant mercantilism is actually worth it.
Update: Apparently Johnny is now saying that oil has nothing to do with it after all.
Gas subsidies and Iran
Subsidizing gasoline prices — wherever or however it occurs — amounts to throwing away a precious, finite resource with no regard for the consequences that will surely follow. Events in Iran now illustrate the foolishness of this kind of behavior. Can we take home the right lesson from Iran’s experience?
Climate – July 4
Poll dancing: UK public more aware
Schwarzenegger ‘blocked own green policy’
Climate deals in Indonesia’s dark peatlands
Energy policy – July 4
How we can survive the age of energy anxiety
Hindustan Times: A burst of energy
Germany’s Merkel presses energy efficiency, emission targets
Warning over Ireland’s oil dependence
China to impose tariff on energy-guzzling products
Oil producers – July 4
North Sea is running too dry to meet target
Iraq oil legislation advances
Iran, low on gasoline, to be supplied by Venezuela
Venezuela’s oil nationalization tests Chinese oil companies
Oil-rich Nigeria short on fuel
Preparing for permaculture
Interview with permaculture expert Robyn Francis in New South Wales, Australia, about the evolution of farming, peak oil and hope for the future.
