Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff UK scientists attack oil firms’ role in huge Arctic project /
Global warming sparks a scramble for black gold under retreating ice /
While Washington slept (why we’re late on climate change) /
California tackles greenhouse emissions
Cuba’s future in the hands of teenage pump attendants /
Chad’s president wants more from oil /
China’s big need for oil is high on U.S. agenda /
Beijing’s ‘new thinking’ on energy security /
Matthew Simmons: China’s insatiable energy needs /
Got oil? Rice meets with brutal African dictator, calls him ‘good friend’ of U.S.
Countdown to $100 oil – Time to bet again /
Gwynne Dyer: Oil – the party is over /
Stephen Roach : Oil and bonds /
The oil rush (transforming the petroleum market)
More uranium: when and from where? /
Going nuclear: a green makes the case /
Anything into oil (turkey guts, junked car parts, even raw sewage…true!) /
Growing demand for non-food crops /
UK coal producer pushes for price increases of 40% /
Russia to control Armenia’s gas /
Transmaterial, transtudio and seeing the big picture – links
Energy policy in America has suffered from big ideas. A step in the right direction is rejected because it is not a leap; the dream is for all problems to be solved at once or not at all.
Before the oil age comes to a complete close, let’s hope someone rehabilitates Jimmy Carter as one of the most prescient Presidents ever to hold the office. Congress might even rename an airport for him — just before it is shut down forever.
Most of the mainstream media attribute the run up in oil prices to geopolitical tensions. However, a careful examination of recent supply data suggests a different reason – oil importers are bidding against each other for available total petroleum
What can one individual do? It helped to look at the impact of the seemingly, small things we are doing. Take toilet paper.
The week in sustainable mobility /
Kevin Phillips interview: America under the influence of oil /
One billion cars
Lundberg on the Washington Petrocollapse conference May 6 /
Personal finance adviser Jane Bryant Quinn on peak oil /
Plateau continues, aided by outages…
RESOLVED, That [we] acknowledge the unprecedented challenges of Peak Oil [and that we] support the adoption of a global Oil Depletion Protocol
The comedian and author gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years – but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, he places oil centre stage as the cause of all the commotion. (VIDEO)
