Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kathy McMahon I’m a psychologist, I’m not a geologist, financial expert, political analyst or economist. Yet, my world was dramatically changed when I learned about Peak Oil and began to read about all the related issues.
A joint interview with Matt Simmons and Jim Kunstler, conducted just after they had met for the first time in November last year. Remarkably – even though both men came from vastly different backgrounds – they had basically reached the same conclusions regarding Peak Oil.
– Ukraine won’t siphon Russian gas – PM
– Energy is focus for Chavez in China
– Russia spins global energy spider’s web
– Moscow making Central Asia its own
– Shell president Hofmeister speaks live Aug 25 (podcast)
– Consultant: oil firms ‘hushing up’ crisis of corroding pipelines
– How “merchant coal” is changing the face of America
– European coal mining revival?
For readers interested in what can be done on a local level, please consider taking the following suggestions and recommendations to your local government leaders. (Report and recommendations from a member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force.)
The humble alternator, junkyard fodder in an industrial society but a valuable resource in a deindustrial one, offers a snapshot of the possibilities for action in a post-peak society.
РLapp̩: a right to food?
– Biofuels may strain U.N. goal to end hunger
– I was a student dumpster-diver
– The shocking truth about bread
– Climate change shifting European seasons
– Cascades’ reddened forests
– Risky business (insurers & climate change)
– Air con is ruining our environment
– For sale: pollution – a good idea?
– McKibben: fired up over global warming
– Report: 6 Steps to beat global warming
– Colorado joins effort to fight global warming
– Calif. to act on its own on global warming
– Sydney newspaper profiles Heinberg
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Depletion estimates and the CGES
– DOE predicts gas shortages
(new Hirsch report)
– Peak pipelines
– Peak oil prophecies
“Female, age 40, seeks wild, swinger male for procreation purposes, no commitments. Bonobo preferred but regular chimpanzee acceptable.”
– Actor/environmental activist Ed Begley, Jr., on environmental and energy issues
– Alternative energy gets mainstream treatment
– Letter from Sweden: fossil fuel-free by 2020, maybe
