Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Harper’s Magazine covers peak oil movement /
Peak Oil and Michigan’s Energy Future /
Why It’s Hard to Debate a Cornucopian /
Jay Hanson and DieOff.org /
Power for the people: what sort of energy? /
How Cuba survived its oil shock /
Canada: People may have to pick eating over heating
Institute of Science in Society ocean series:
Oceans in Distress /
Oceans and Global Warming /
Oceans: Carbon Sink or Source? /
Acid Oceans /
Abrupt Plankton Shifts /
Global Warming and Plankton /
Plus: Undersea gas could speed global warming – study /
Warmer waters disrupt Pacific food chain
The top 14 oil exporting states experienced high economic growth in 2005 and the first half of 2006, leading to high domestic consumption of oil. The rates of increase in oil consumption are in the high single digits or low double digits in all top exporting countries except Norway.
Encroachment (Failure in Iraq and the prospect of fascism) /
The geopolitics of oil gains a new constituency /
Putin plan to shut out US oil giants /
Iranian army chief: Arab states should cut oil supply to Israel /
Bush told to plan for Chávez oil shock
The decline in the availability of cheap energy is likely to be accompanied by an equally ominous possibility of world financial meltdown. That we are facing both of these threats now is not an accident: energy and financial stability are intimately linked. I believe the solutions for dealing with these twinned threats are equally linked.
Grain Drain /
Wheat price soars as world granaries run low /
India grows a grain crisis /
Zimbabwe: ‘Power Cuts Could Reduce Wheat Yield’ /
Lester Brown: The grain needed to fill an SUV’s tank could feed a person for a year /
Food crisis in Lebanon
A rapid demise of Cantarell, the country’s chief oil field, and the world’s second-largest oil complex, could pose a serious economic threat.
For three decades, it has been Saudi Arabian oil that poured into the market to dampen rapidly rising oil prices and Saudi cutbacks that pushed prices back up when they were abnormally low. Not anymore.
Undersea gas could speed global warming – study / NASA’s goals delete mention of home planet / Researchers link wildfires, climate change / Global warming, not just heat wave
Stan Goff on Encroachment (failure in Iraq and the prospect of fascism) /
An imperial defeatist– and proud of it /
The geopolitics of oil gains a new constituency: women and oil wars
James Howard Kunstler on relocalization and peak oil (audios) / Forum on Michigan’s Energy Future – July 22 / Sustainable Lifestyles Symposium Aug 20-25, Ontarion CAN / Peak oil and education /
Of oilsands and caviar and Malthus
CanadaChanging: ecological fiscal reform / Julian Darley: A new kind of money (based on sustainable energy) / Reserved For The future /
Cities reward ‘lifestyle’ that conserves water / This trade in carbon emissions won’t combat global warming / Miliband unveils carbon swipe-card plan for UK /
Solution: Carbon tax
