Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Chomsky: Latin America and Asia are at last breaking free of Washington’s grip /
Kevin Phillips’ new book on the influence of radical religion, oil, and borrowed money on the US /
A Glimpse of our geopolitical future — The East and South China Seas /
US postwar Iraq strategy a mess, Blair was told /
Both Reds and Blues go green on energy
Northern ozone pollution spurs Arctic warming: NASA /
Evidence of the warming West is everywhere /
States calculate global warming pricetag /
Mike Davis: “Planet of Slums” /
Ice retreats in Arctic for 2nd year; will it vanish? /
Elizabeth’s Kolbert’s book on climate change /
Will climate change worsen infectious diseases? /
CU-Boulder’s Roger Pielke on the rising cost of natural disasters
Salon gives new film “OilCrash!” a big thumbs up /
Review of “OilCrash!” at The Oil Drum /
Oil shortage threatens military /
Corps of Engineers energy report should be required reading /
Canada, the US, and oil — a bizarre relationship /
“Nuclear Power in Context of Peak Oil” London event March 21 /
156 ideas on Australia’s future oil supply
Brazil: soya is not the solution to climate change /
Mexico discovers ‘huge’ oil field /
Australian oil output peaks on slippery slope /
Terror risks of nuclear fuel /
Big Oil’s smaller cushion /
Russia on energy (hints of peak oil?) /
US, Russia in nuclear power call
Survey: 3/4 Americans fault federal leadership, back state & local efforts /
Poll: Most Americans fear vulnerability of oil /
Pew report: Both Reds and Blues go green on energy /
Pew Poll: Curing an oil addiction
A new Peak Oil workshop initiative recently started in Melbourne, Australia. Early signs indicate it has broader relevance and excellent potential for effective communication, project initiation and community building.
Pentagon to unveil energy conservation effort /
GE Energy’s Rob Wallace on wind power, clean coal, climate /
A supergrid for Europe /
US says it will still need more foreign oil /
Russia’s growing influence on energy issues /
Senate panel interrogates wary oil executives
The Pentagon will shortly unveil a militarywide program aimed at conserving energy that is expected to address what President George W. Bush termed America’s “addiction to oil” during his State of the Union address in January.
Rep. Bartlett on CNN’s “Situation Room” at ~4:30pm ET /
Peak oil conference in Maryland May 7-9 /
do no harm (we have a cultural problem, not a technical one) /
Peak oil conference for New York City: April 27-29
Lundberg: Where do we go from here? /
Pickens sees $5 per gallon gasoline worldwide
How humans are able to adjust the setup of the suburbs to meet their basic needs in times of trouble will fall to those in need. Necessity is the mother of invention, or reinvention as it were.
Khebab’s technical analysis demonstrates the high likelyhood of a precipitous drop in Mexican oil exports from a country near its peak in production, with a growing population and appetite for oil.
Burst oil pipeline causes ‘catastrophe’ in Alaska /
UK: New suburbia is an environmental cul-de-sac /
U.S. about to become net food importer /
Is America facing yet another dust bowl? /
Climate change ‘irreversible’ as Arctic sea ice fails to re-form /
Even Bush’s business allies have seen the light on global warming, but he’s dug in /
UN report: 2004 set record for carbon dioxide
