Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Can our way of living really save the planet? /
Sustainability – at the tipping point? /
On the horizon: charge! (the humble battery) /
‘Green’ chemists swap oil for renewable alternatives /
Chew Magna: Is this greenest village in Britain? /
Is more better?
Opec accuses Bush of threatening energy security /
Harvard ponders energy futures /
Divers work the Gulf floor to undo what hurricanes did /
Nigerian oil crisis spreads from Shell to Chevron /
Nigeria seeks China arms to secure oil
California farmland faces threats from development at the same time food security is threatened by global energy descent.
Is there a silver bullet that can help us to limit the amount of climate change? Some such “silver bullets” aim to scrub carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere, some to cool Earth directly by veiling it; others are yet more radical.
Sustainable fossil fuels (Dr. Mark Jaccard) /
Tragedy prompts personal peak oil website /
NZ branch of ASPO started /
The Oil Drum empire expands to the UK /
Ex-CIA head and environmentalists agree on no-oil thinking /
Revisiting the Olduvai Theory /
Peak Oil becoming de facto /
Poster child of the collapse /
An energy Pearl Harbor?
Lovins: Winning the oil endgame (talk) /
The real cost of electricity /
Gov. Schweitzer’s coal-to-fuels program: What you didn’t hear on ‘60 Minutes’ /
Life in a grass house (the viability of switchgrass) /
Kuwaiti MP demands truth on Kuwaiti oil
You’re a good man, Lester Brown (interview) /
Anaesthetist turned climate change expert on Radio NZ /
Antarctic ice sheet losing mass /
White House spin reaches science research
When I first read James Howard Kunstler’s Rolling Stone excerpt last year, I knew I needed to know more about peak oil. Thousands of pages later I have a far more nuanced picture, and am now back at college teaching a course on peak oil. (Syllabus included)
How the predictions of Cambridge Energy Research Associates are faring thus far based on 2005 production figures.
Triangle conference on peak oil and community solutions to be held March 25 at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
An overview of US and international energy policy, including the prospects for an economy based on renewable energy, the security problems likely to result from tightening oil supplies, and a possible basis for making the transition to alternatives.
The current world energy situation poses a national threat unparalleled in 225 years… Concurrent with rising demand [for oil] are indications that world production may soon peak, followed by permanent decline and shortage. Moreover, most of the remaining oil is concentrated in distant, politically hostile locations, inviting interdiction by enemies.
