More news – June 28
ODAC News
Energy news roundup from Canada
TOD: This week in petroleum
Staff
Solutions & sustainability – June 28
The 12 steps of Transition – the movie(s)
Soil: The secret solution to global warming
Terra Preta- agricultural miracle from the past?
10 Steps to a slow home
Germany mulling program to boost energy efficiency
Coal – June 28
Peak coal: Depletion reflected in prices
TOD on coal supply
Congress wants U.S. coal industry destroyed: exec
Politics – June 28
This is your brain on politics
Gore faces public clamour to run
Tory environmentalist Zac Goldsmith
United States – June 28
Friedman on energy bill: This baby is just plain ugly, folks
How to ease New England’s energy crisis
Power line aimed At Maryland – nation’s biggest
Agriculture – June 28
Climate threatens N. Africa food supply
Rains hit W.Europe wheat, drought the East
Climate and energy threats to European ag
Farmers sue for right to grow hemp
Food – June 28
Sainsbury’s giant carrot washer, and the rejected royal roots
Kingsolver: No bananas, but lots of tomatoes
Battling the “ick” factor in Seattle
The Nation gets real about food
Peak oil – June 28
Review: Escape From Suburbia
Life after oil is coming… will Alberta be ready?
Finding needles in a haystack: Predicting future oil discoveries based on historical dynamics
Ireland stuck at crossroads … without fuel
ASPO-6 conference in Cork Sept 17-18
Transport – June 28
Fears of ‘transport poverty’
Is there a Model T in your future?
Get Americans to drive less by raising gas taxes
California has worst U.S. traffic
Public transit ridership in Canada hits record
A flight path to greener air travel
Rejecting the real snake oil
Except for those in extreme denial about our oil problems, even casual observers looking at the facts and trends listed below should see that we’re on the front edge of an enormously challenging energy transition.
Völkerwanderung
The relative stability of national and cultural boundaries in recent centuries could easily become a thing of the past as industrial civilization unravels. Planning for the deindustrial future needs to keep the possibility of mass migration in mind.
Oil producers – June 26
US firms reject Venezuelan deal
Oil rises, Canada’s take doesn’t
US demand for Canadian oil seen doubling in 8 yrs
