Protest – Feb 2
Riot? If I were 20 years younger I would take to the streets
Thousands protest across Russia
Greek Farmers Clash With Riot Police
Staff
Peak Oil Review – Feb 2
A weekly review, including:
– Production and Prices
– Obama’s stimulus
– Venezuela
– Briefs
Energy industry – Feb 2
Natural Gas Glut Could Hit US
Oil Sector Braces For Wider Fallout Of Low Crude Price
Oil players stockpile cheap crude on tankers
Endangered Electricity System: The Potential of Microgrids
Too many people, too much stuff – Feb 1
Peak middle class
CSM: Earth’s big problem: Too many people
Peak everything
Food & agriculture – Feb 1
Job losses and plunging incomes = food crisis
Britain ‘must revive farms’ to avoid grave food crisis
Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland
Energy and ecology: why societies really succeed and fail
A human society that aspires for long-term sustainability will want to live in accord with basic ecological principles: energy comes from the sun; all resources are constantly cycled such that there is no waste whatsoever; fertile soil is the foundation of terrestrial life; and a sustainable population of a given species is one that is maintained at or within the carrying capacity of the ecosystem.
Lightering our way to abundance
One promising sign of a bottom to oil prices is the move by oil companies and Wall Street firms to secure tankers in which to store oil in order to play the contango in the oil market. By leasing a tanker and filling it with oil purchased at the current low price while simultaneously selling it on the futures market for delivery later this year at a significantly higher price, they can generate considerable profit–enough to pay for the costs of storage on the high seas and take home handsome paychecks to boot.
Peak oil, the web of debt, & our local future
A new set of high definition videos are now online: Richard Heinberg on peak oil, Thaddeus Owen on permaculture, Ellen Brown on financial collapse, Tim Husdon on the four futures, and Kim Hill on the auto industry crisis, and more.
Movement and media – Jan 31
Changes at Post Carbon
New issue of Culture Change
Some observations on social media
United States – Jan 31
Doing the recovery right
IT admin plotted to erase Fannie Mae
We’re working longer than ever to pay for fossil fuels
Food & agriculture – Jan 31
Astyk: Food security as a cottage industry
Industrially grown produce shows long-term nutritional decline
Zimbabwe’s starving millions face halving of rations as UN cash dries up
Transport – Jan 31
Airlines in financial crisis, aviation group says
Airlines report ‘shocking’ plunge in traffic
Empty seat travelling reconsidered
Peak personal automobile
