Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Posing as a Bidder, Utah Student Disrupts Government Auction of 150,000 Acres of Wilderness for Oil & Gas Drilling
Robert Rapier: Thoughts on the New Energy Team
More proof Holdren is a great choice
US Environmental Protection Agency faces eleventh-hour shake-up
Will Energy Efficiency Stimulus Distract America from the Real Task at Hand?
The Vermont Creed
Ban bottled water
Sentient Times and social change
Going green for Hanukkah
Ashland group pushes for ‘transition town’ status
There have been occasional claims from U.S. media sources that oil from Canada, specifically oil from the Athabasca oil sands region, can be the salvation for US oil woes in the future, assuming drilling everywhere in the US doesn’t do the trick. An example of such optimism was exemplified in a 60 Minutes segment about a year ago which gave the impression that the Athabascan region could supply much of the future U.S. oil needs.
Slow Towns
Life Without Cars
The dead mall problem
In this paper it is shown that the concentrations of Shia Islamic peoples, in the Persian Gulf, are in the same areas as the oil fields and petroleum infrastructures. This is significant considering the growing influence these Persian Gulf oil producing countries will likely have due to their high levels of oil production and the possession of most of the world’s oil reserves. Considerable strategic geopolitical developments can be expected from this concentration of “petropower” in the Islamic Persian Gulf nations.
A weekly review including:
– Prices and production
– OPEC may meet in January
– Investment
– The IEA sets a date
– Briefs
Katrina’s Hidden Race War
Computing Power About To Peak?
The Needle and the Damage Done
The Versace beach will be refrigerated
A simple explanation for oil prices rising to an average of $100 in 2008: importers bidding for declining net oil exports.
Fatih Birol talks the talk on peak oil – In this 40 minute exclusive interview for my film “PetroApocalypse Now?” I interviewed Fatih Birol, Chief Economist of the IEA about reserves, the USGS, technology, demand and recession, solutions and peak oil. (Also, a mini-review of the film)
Shadowed by $200 oil
Channel 4 News interview: London oil summit
Over a barrel
As I sip my morning espresso, I have a brief moment of longing for an earlier time when I could make my stovetop coffee quickly on a gas burner. It takes a lot longer using this electric one. Little did we know that gas was right behind oil in peaking. Fortunately we finally have plenty of solar-produced electricity and, once again, access to coffee. So it’s a minor inconvenience, but just another reminder of things we used to take for granted.
White House philosophy stoked mortgage bonfire (NYT)
The depression of 1929 is the wrong model for the current economic crisis
‘Greek Syndrome’ is catching as youth take to streets
The revolt of a disappointed generation (Greece)
