Cheap oil and geopolitics – Feb 23
China Changes Calculus for Petro-Rulers
China prepares to buy up foreign oil companies
China, Venezuela bolster ‘strategic fund’ for development
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CERA – a peak oiler in the making?
When you read the various CERA reports in chronological order, you realize that CERA is gliding away from previous strongly held beliefs and setting the stage for joining the Peak Oil community.
United States – Feb 24
Friedman: Start Up the Risk-Takers
E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
National Guard goes green to conserve energy, cost
White House Dismisses Mileage-Based Tax
First Lady at Agriculture Department
Peak textiles – Feb 24
Sustainable fashion: will government help bin throwaway culture?
Is there a viable eco alternative to leather?
Relocalizing clothing in North Carolina
Addicted to booms & cheap energy – Feb 24
The Abyss Stares Back
Owners must be weaned off the house-price drug
Bears in the finance-media zoo
Renewables & efficiency – Feb 24
The Dam Building Boom: Right Path to Clean Energy?
No fridge? Cool!
British Fight Climate Change With Fish and Chips
Should we pave the desert?
California’s renewable energy goals feasible
America’s future wind web?
Food & agriculture – Feb 24
Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner
Recession grows interest in seeds, vegetable gardening
Small-Scale Grain Raising
Feds: Less water for California agriculture this year
Fairtrade Week: smallholders farm a route out of poverty
Climate – Feb 24
Failure hits Nasa’s ‘CO2 hunter’
Climate fears driving ‘ecomigration’
A collapsing carbon market makes mega-pollution cheap
Australian government hoist on its own petard over emissions trading
Deep thought – Feb 23
Conflict over, and in the midst of, nature’s assets
NYT: Could energy success backfire in the end?
Gloom and doom
The secret
Economics & consequences – Feb 23
Zbigniew Brzezinski warns of class warfare and riots
Huge protest over Irish economy
Latvia’s government falls on economic toll
In parched Argentina, worries over economy grow
Britain faces summer of rage – police
Jobless, restless China: 20 million and growing
Creating a cottage garden
The early Puritans left their mark on us in a number of ways, some of which make life a series of joyless tasks. Sometimes I think their devotees must write garden books. The tone of many of the how-to books reeks of rules, admonitions, and dicta. How about a garden that is programmed to give you joy, to take care of you?
Peak oil & supplies – Feb 23
Peak Oil: why $40 per barrel is no cause for complacency
The great oil output race
Energy secretary predicts higher demand for oil
Oil companies spend millions to protect the primary source of the world’s energy
