Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Speaking at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC on 8 June, CERA Global Oil Group Managing Director Jim Burkhard began and ended his talk by stating that “CERA acknowledges that peak oil is here, you heard it from a CERA person.”
Canada export agency sees $70 oil as unsustainable
$70 oil menaces budding recovery
Proposition: global effort to model largest oil fields
Choosing Iran’s Next Leader
Europe’s pipeline politics
Energy fuels new ‘Great Game’ in Europe
Could Cap and Trade Cause Another Market Meltdown?
Alberta Environment Minister: Carbon capture no ‘silver bullet’
Papua New Guinea and carbon trading: money grows on trees
Carbon Offsetting is “Fundamentally Flawed”
U.S. trains take longer now than 30-60 years ago
Oil’s Ascent To Ground Airlines Again
Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains
Climate change theatre
Calling Earth from the Air: world release of green movie ‘Home’
It’s the end of the world as we know it (annotated)
Your Chance to See ‘In Transition’, the emerging plans for its release, as well as an appeal for help in finishing it…
It is, of course only a novel, but it offers a good rationale for us to enter politics. Nobody can predict what shape the future will take, and even if we can be pretty sure the present world is going to collapse, its demise will take time and it can be succeeded by a lot of things, not all of them pleasant…Yet we can work to cushion the decline and make sure that whoever will succeed us will inherit the best of what we have…This is not a very rewarding job and it is as likely to fail as to succeed. Sometimes it will leave you with a bitter aftertaste and even victories will sometimes feel empty, but it certainly beats replaying Julian’s tragedy.
European communist parties on energy
German regions selected for electric mobility pilots
Economy Shows Cracks in European Union
Alistair Darling says Labour to blame for BNP poll success
World’s poor overwhelmed by rubbish
Converting Garbage into Fuel
Recycling revolution begins in blood and guts
The Top 6 Ways to Convert Poop Into Electricity
A while back, at a talk I gave, a small scale farmer asked me why my family didn’t farm full time. I observed that one of the reasons we don’t is simply that we have young children and we feel that we have a need for benefits.
Those who resist participating in the “growth versus limits” discourse — which may, without exaggeration, be called the problematic of the century — because it is outside their comfort zone or because it appears to be an academically unadaptive career strategy and those who claim that the possibility of economic growth is unbounded should pay particular attention.
Newspapers must stop taking advertising from environmental villains
Funniest award of the week
Ehrenrich: Welcome to a Dying Industry, Journalism Grads
