Biofuels – Sept 24
Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper?
Farming the World’s Energy
Researchers Caution on Potential of Energy Crops as Invasive Species
Staff
Renewables – Sept 24
Silicon Valley explores solar technology
Philippines urged to use its abundant wind
Slow uptake of gasoline alternatives in US
Clinton debuts $1B renewable-energy fund
2006 a tipping point, says Flavin
Mitigating collapse – Sept 23
Orlov: What can young professionals and aging baby boomers do to prepare for America’s collapse?
Orlov: What can young people do to prepare for America’s collapse?
Surviving The Oil Crash: Leadership And Social Structure
Thomas Homer-Dixon: Resiliency & Collapse
The test of time
As the petroleum age comes to a close, the hyper-caffeinated rate of technical progress that cheap energy made possible may slow, and we may be forced to return to older, less energy dependent technologies and methods like those of the Romans.
Taking oil out of the equation
No matter how hard we try, we cannot prevail in the “war on terror” so long as we continue to ignore the oil dimensions of the conflict
Energy: preparations and possibilities
In place of business-as-usual or survivalist fantasies, lifestyle changes and conservation technologies can be put to work to manage the transition into deindustrial society.
Habitat of the motorist
The preferred habitat of the motorist is intrinsically a terrible habitat for the pedestrian, and vice-versa. Places truly congenial for both are a spatial impossibility.
Peak oil – Sept 22
Lundberg: End of the age of oil
Fortune: new oil discovery may be bad for us
Byron King: peak oil theory of value
Peak salt?
Interview about ASPO-USA conference
Conference Oct 25-27
Oil industry – Sept 22
High costs threaten oil sands projects
Oil companies split on demands by exporting countries
Hofmeister of Shell Oil podcast
Suits say US impeded audits for oil leases
Dems want hearings on Interior Dept “corruption”
Factors that pushed oil price up now push it down
How periodic are oil price fluctuations?
Climate – Sept 22
McKibben: “Bush’s climate plan will kick-start new era of bargaining over planet’s future”
UK”s Beckett to warn UN on CC
Al Gore interview (video)
Bloomberg, Schwarzenegger point fingers
Community holds vigil for rain
Sea levels are rising faster than predicted
Nitrous oxide – no laughing matter for forests
Oil Industry – Sept 22
Executive sees price threat to oil sands projects
Costs of exploration soar
Auditors say US Dept. Interior corruptly favouring oil companies
Geopolitics – Sept 22
US controls price of crude oil
Brazil, Bolivia to address energy crisis
EU fears grow over dependence on Russia
