Peak Energy – Jan 6
Nate Hagens on the financial meltdown and fossil fuels
Peak Oil – Politics, Geopolitics, and Choke Points
Radical Retrenchment — A reference model
Staff
Nuclear energy – Jan 6
Fusion we can believe in?
The staggering cost of new nuclear power
EDF calls on UK to declare nuclear need
Geopolitics – Jan 6
Russia flexes its military muscle
Arab News: Why should we bail out US automobile industry
New Year, New Outlook For Oil
Climate & environment – Jan 6
We’re gonna need a bigger boat
It will take more than goodwill and greenwash to save the biosphere
The third degree
Food & agriculture – Jan 6
Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry: A 50-Year Farm Bill
Peak soil
A Change We Can Believe In – Dumping Industrial Agriculture
Community Food Co-op establishes stronger foothold in local grocery industry with opening of second store in north Bellingham
Oil prices: Wild 2008 ends with mild contango
Spot prices finish the end very low, but what about the long end of the curve, where market practitioners reflect their medium term expectation of the oil buy / sell balance?
Some would say the curve is in deep contango (i.e. future prices are higher than the spot), reflecting a strong expectation that prices will resume their upward movement as soon as the crisis is less severe.
Does that mean more market players are convinced by peak oil?
Gazprom-Ukraine flare up
Jérôme Guillet: The battle of the oligarchs behind the gas dispute
Europe begins to feel gas pipeline pinch
Ukraine will end up paying more – but it needs to wean itself off Russian gas
It’s time to see through Gazprom
Gazprom’s tactics harsh but its logic sound
Knowing One’s Place
Dave Haferd sees his farm with eyes that are 200 years old. He knows every foot of its 180 acres, on top and underneath. Walking across his land, he discourses endlessly and joyfully upon almost any rock, post, tree, clod, weed, or building that his eye falls upon.
Transportation – Jan 5
A Surge in Bicyclists Appears to Be Waiting
Getting To Paradise On A Low-Carbon Budget
Got resolutions?
Food & agriculture – Jan 5
Chickens given roosts in urban backyards
Coffee next in line as biofuel source
Universal Food Stamps? If the Industrial Food System No Longer Provides Cheap Food, What Are We Keeping It For, Anyway?
Peak Oil Review – Jan 5
A weekly review including:
– Last Week
– Briefs
The Top 10 Peak-Oil-Related Stories of 2008
1. The Global Recession
2. Price Volatility: Who Knew?
3. Falling Investment = Building the Big Boomerang
4. The IEA Changes its Stance (will U.S. EIA, CERA and Exxon-Mobil follow?)
5. The Campaign and the Elections
6. OPEC Cuts Production
7. The Large Exporters: from Boom to Busted
8. Shale Gas: Game Changer or Rope-a-Dope? [or “a mixed blessing”]
9. Food vs. Fuel Hit Pocketbooks Worldwide
10. Global Production Peaks, on the Production Plateau
