Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kelpie Wilson If you are a California voter, you might have heard about the big celebrity protests in Malibu a few weeks ago. Led by actor Pierce Brosnan,
everyone from Barbra Striesand to Sting showed up to protest a planned LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) terminal that BHP Billiton wants to build 14 miles
off the coast at Oxnard.
China’s policy in the Gulf region: from neglect to necessity /
Oil city to be established in Gwadar /
China ready to pay more for Iraqi oil field /
Iraq taps Chinese oil companies to double production
Forecaster: Global oil output ‘will start to decline by 2015’ /
TOD: Peak Oil Aware NY Governor? /
ASPO-USA: support for Global Energy Flow modelling /
The oil crisis started 30 years ago /
Whatever happened to Peak Oil?
Permaculture, as it has been reframed by David Holmgren, is nothing less than the design system for a post-peak society. But is the movement capable of influencing society as a whole? Or should we just head for the hills?
Sating America’s prodigious energy appetite depends on the continued availability of Canadian energy sources. How long can Canada go on behaving like America’s most compliant energy colony?
Report on a talk at the ASPO-USA conference in Boston.
Tom Whipple: Virginia writes a plan /
Oil films reviewed by 4th Intl site/
New book “Energy War” by Stan Goff
The real scoop on biofuels /
As investors covet ethanol, farmers resist /
McCain’s farm flip
Dawn of the “solar salon” in US living rooms /
GE Energy Korea: ‘Switch to renewable power before you’re forced to’ /
False dawn of solar power /
China: massive capital for renewable power
What if the Midwest stopped trying to feed the world and started focusing on itself?
Forecast for Australian grain production cut again /
‘Virtually no progress’ in alleviating world hunger: FAO
US Inspector Generals probe allegations that global warming findings were suppressed /
MIT survey: climate tops Americans’ environmental concerns /
UK Stern Report sells climate short /
You can’t do it all with mirrors /
Why we must ration the future /
2050 too late for climate change action: former U.S. adviser
It is customary to look for the critical year of oil production in absolute terms, but in the year 1970 or thereabouts there was another important “conjunction,” to use an astrological metaphor.
The Dollar’s Full-System Meltdown /
Syria switches to the Euro due to US sanctions /
Gulf oil states ‘keep faith in dollar assets’
