Energy policy – Sept 13
EU: energy investments ‘urgently needed’
Producers: aid must continue for biomass-coal power
Japan’s energy drive – a white elephant?
Fuel for London, a clean-up for Caracas
Staff
Fun with emergency preparedness
My emergency planning strategies starts a journey that ends in the garden.
Community Solutions
Endless discussion of peak oil statistics isn’t of much interest to me. Nor is sitting around trying to guess the exact date of the arrival of the peak. The response of our communities to this coming era of human history, now that blows my hair back.
Climate Policy – Sept 12
Arizona seeks to bypass Bush on CO2 emissions
Climate change heads for the US Supreme Court
Fear unites evangelicals, environmentalists
Christians reconsider flying
Nuclear – Sept 12
Swedes downplay severity of shutdowns
Pakistan key to Chinese nuclear exports
Feds reject nuke waste storage plan
Popular Mechanics: The Nuclear Option
Solutions and Sustainability – Sept 12
Traffic “experiments” and a cure for waves & jams
Petrolius – satire
Book Review – The Worm Forgives the Plough
Book Review – The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Cities Can Save the Earth: the urban solution to climate change, species extinctions and peak oil
Over the past century, our cities have been shaped – literally – by the demands of the automobile. Today, with global oil reserves declining irreversibly, it’s time to face the challenges of the imminent post-oil reality.
Peak Oil – Sept 12
ASPO Newsletter #69
Jack 2 will be a long time coming
ExxonMobil exec claims Peak oil theories wrong
Predicting the peak
Stormy world of energy has a clear forecaster
Chevron conquers the rock
Jack #2 demonstrates a key element of the Peak Oil thesis. That is, that the “easy” oil is gone… The oil that mankind will lift from the earth in the future, on the far side of Peak Oil, will be in faraway places, in harsh climates, under excruciatingly difficult conditions, deep down, heavy, sour, and overall expensive.
Imagine… Sept 12
Gaviotas
Other economies are possible!
Ditch the car?
Canal dreaming: solving the energy crisis
If gas taxes had been increased 5 years ago
Geopolitics – Sept 11
US and UK mercenaries in covert operations in Somalia
‘Resource nationalism’ is squeezing oil users
Gas Pressure destabilising Yushchenko
Japan nervous over Russia’s Sakhalin lawsuit
Why we need a healthcare Hirsch report
A medical ‘Hirsch report’ would provide useful information for planning and implementing mitigation programs, allowing us to manage the significant expected impacts of oil scarcity and energy descent on healthcare systems.
