Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kelpie Wilson We are used to gas prices going up and down in the short term, but in the last six weeks, we’ve seen a dip of fifty cents or more in the price of a gallon. We haven’t seen anything this precipitous in a long time and it has excited a lot of comment.
Kjell Aleklett, a Swedish professor of physics, sees inescapable similarities between the steady depletion of the world’s most coveted energy source and the foraging habits of berry afficionados.
(First in an excellent series on energy by the Vancouver Sun.)
Nuclear power required for oil sands production?
Aboriginal support of oil sands fracturing over water
Environmentalists want oil sands slowed
Chevron, Los Alamos to Study U.S. Oil Shale Deposits
Sellafield reprocessing plant failing
Early check for nuclear plant amid safety fears
Egypt to build nuke plants
Russia to start building nine nuclear power units in 2007
Russia, Iran agree on launch date of nuclear power plant
Aquaponics is a system of integrated fish tanks and hydroponic vegetable beds, which may have a lot to offer for high intensity urban food production.
Totnes is the UK’s first town exploring issues of how to prepare for peak oil. TTT is a community-led initiative which is working towards the creation of an Energy Descent Action Plan for the town.
Energy Dept. concludes crude will peak
Recent hype can’t disprove peak oil
Oil peaks, valleys, plateaus and plains
Get ready for oil supplies to dwindle: experts
Put crudely, petrol panic runs out of puff
Kunstler on relocalization and peak oil
Appeasement driven by oil (Darfur)
Oil-rich leaders mock Bush team
Blair bemoans Russia oil crisis
World Bank profits from poor countries
West bars IAEA motion on Israel
Nuclear power pushed for oil sands production
Collapse of oil prices makes gas restraint key to controlling CO2
Untransformed
(Bush and energy technology)
Hearings on Defense energy use
Environmentalists back Putin over Shell’s energy permit
Spinach, feedlots and knowing the backstory
Don’t cry to them, Argentina
Gateses’ approach to African hunger is bound to fail
Making the Tarmac bloom
Towpaths and bicycle commuting
High Point: Seattle’s green community
Wal-Mart grows ‘green’ strategies
The religious war on bottled water
Scientists shocked as Arctic polar route emerges
Great Warming filmmakers aim to influence U.S. voters
Global meltdown feared: UN report
Carbon offsetting is not just hot air
