Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Balaji Reddy This new dangerous third world war is all on trade and energy resources. No country in the world can survive without viable and reliable source of energy without going back to cave ages.
Because the scientists are challenging fundamental assumptions of our culture, such as the basis for “progress” and the consequences of “economic growth,” many cannot agree with the scientists without losing their identity. This threat to the mental model is simply too great to accept.
January’s ASPO bulletin contains some of the month’s most important stories and includes a country assessment of Kazakhstan and details of the next ASPO conference to be held in Portugal.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin using NASA satellite data found that significant changes in the Earth’s shape in the past 28 years may be linked to climate events such as the El Nino weather pattern.
One of the surprises in the oil world in 2004 was the success of an underground documentary on the perilous state of world energy. [New film coming from a maker of the End of Surburbia.]
Peak Oil in three paragraphs.
India has entered into an agreement with Iran to import 7.5 million tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas (LNG), starting 2009, over a period of 25 years.
China, the world’s second-biggest oil consumer after the U.S., plans to start filling a government- controlled strategic oil reserve next year, a Chinese official said.
Industrial agriculture of annual crops may be the most destructive technology on the planet. “Woody agriculture” of perennial nuts may be part of the solution.
The prospect of Chinese and Indian oil companies buying oil and gas-producing assets in the US and Russia is changing the landscape in which the western oil majors operate.
For all our technical advances, says the noted thinker, we’re forgetting a lot of crucial stuff.
Here is a bright little village in Andhra Pradesh that is all solar and smoke-free — the first of its kind in the country.
