Coal – Oct 13
Even coal (clean or not) will not save the US way of life
Kremlin seeks more coal use in Russia amid gas shortage
Massive coal mine blaze still burning
Output drop hurts UK Coal
Staff
Religion, values and sustainability
Worldwatch’s Gardner says shift in values needed to achieve sustainability
God & the environment
Moyers: “Is God Green?”
Ethanol & renewables – Oct 12
St Louis renewable energy conference (day 1)
Report: Brazilian ethanol is sustainable
The trouble with ethanol (Patzek)
The ethanol alternative (ABC)
Oil Giants put energy Into other resources
Oil – Oct 12
World Oil Exports: A Comprehensive Projection
Oil price volatility and possible consequences
Lower gas prices won’t last, say UC-Davis professors
EU oil imports set to grow by 29% by 2012
Putin Suggests Creation of Oil Exchange in St. Petersburg
America’s dirty secret: India becomes the gasoline gusher
How Hot Money Inflames Oil Prices
Hubbert’s Defense Department
The U.S. military machine is built on and around cheap and available “mobility fuel,” and virtually its entire body of doctrine is founded on pre-Peak Oil thinking. If the world is at or fast approaching a state of Peak Oil, where does that leave us?
Proposing Plan C
Participants at last month’s Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions learned how they must use less energy, save and share resources and grow food in their communities. This response to the coming peak and permanent decline of global oil production, is dubbed “Plan C: Curtailment, Cooperation, and Community.”
Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting
As today’s economics of imaginary wealth comes apart under the stress of peak oil, talk about a “new economy” misses the point. What’s needed — and can be built, starting with actions on a personal scale — is an old economy, in which money exchanges play a much smaller role.
Mexico’s Cantarell field: how long will it last?
Thanks to the Reforma and Cantarell field discoveries, Mexico’s oil production grew dramatically, starting from the mid-1970s and running right up to its peak production in 2004. But Cantarell, Mexico’s largest field, is in decline. Part one of this 4-part series covers the background.
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 11
Will silicon light illuminate the future?
A climate hero
Healthy gardens just the start for healthy community
Relocalisation comes to town
Energy Descent: Community questions future
A post-peak open space event
Are you exceptional?
The peak oil crisis: turning points
During the last couple of weeks there were a number of new developments that may, in the long run, turn out to be more detrimental to our future well-being than we have yet perceived.
Plan B and Plan B
Fundamentalist Christians are mounting an effort to end the use of all contraceptives while ecologists warn that we are headed for disaster as Earth’s life support systems crack under the weight of our numbers.
U.S. energy policy – Oct 10
Nation still needs a sane energy policy.
Energy vacation (Bush energy bill)
Politics of climate change – why Democrats should stand up now
Raise the gas tax? Funny, it doesn’t sound Republican
Without renewable power, U.S. Army could fail in Iraq
