Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Sharon Astyk I frankly thought Ilargi was out of his mind when he told me that the economic crisis would reshape peak oil and climate change discourse, and ought to be our focus. I was wrong, he was right. Their analysis has been solidly spot-on, and I think it will continue to be. We are in a self-reinforcing deflationary spiral. Inflation may eventually be a response to that, but for right now and the immediate future, well, it isn’t.
It seems that many of the peak oil heavyweights, including Richard Heinberg and Dmitry Orlov, in particular, despite their own ingenious contributions to analyzing our current predicament, seem to blithely dismiss survivalism. They apparently do not understand the basic technical constructs of survivalism…
The return of high oil
Roubini sees oil falling further 20%, hurting Russia
UK’s Michael Meacher: Crude mathematics
The truth behind low oil prices
Relocalize Newsletter: heating matters
Consumers rank climate concerns ahead of economy
Glitz and gongs as ethical fashion steals the limelight
Big Gav: Low temperature geothermal power
Villaraigosa unveils solar plan for Los Angeles
Vatican set to go green with huge solar panel roof
Worm census in UK
Mussels lose out as carbon dioxide changes ocean
Honey bee crisis threatens English fruit farmers
Heinberg: oceanic zooplankton drop 73 percent
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
Energy Bulletin will be taking a break for the holidays until next Monday.
Russia’s comeuppance
Gulf’s woes bode ill for the oil and gas we need
Oiligarchy: A game with a message
The slow death of Gaza
What the pirates say
Edible playgrounds and political vegetables
Getting to know your local farmer
Ben Gisin of Touch the Soil magazine
Biofuels push Ethiopian farmers to food aid
Acid soils in Slovakia tell somber tale
Democrats brace for ‘midnight rules’ from Bush
Bad economy threatens Obama’s climate fix
White House prods allies to oppose limits on greenhouse gases
Left out of the bailout: the poor
Robert Bryce turnaround: Gasoline’s cheap again, but peak oil still looms large
Nafeez Ahmed: Food crisis & peak oil
The end of the world as we know it?
Iraq’s oil: The greatest prize of all ?
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