Biofuels – Nov 21
Right to eat comes before fuel, Swiss minister says
South Korean company takes over part of Madagascar to grow biofuels
Cutting Emissions in Rural China
Staff
Transport – Nov 21
A sea of unwanted auto imports
Moore: Automakers never listened to workers, consumers
Bill Rees blasts auto industry bailout talk
California officials unveil plans to turn San Francisco into electric car capital
Coming to a store near you: chainless bicycles
ODAC Newsletter – Nov 21
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Deep Thought – Nov 21
The Last Viridian Note
Finite Resources Explain the Financial Crisis
Moore’s Curse and the Great Energy Delusion
Trickle down – Nov 21
It was our national pastime – but now shopping is just so over
Many Brisconnections shareholders facing financial ruin (confluence of energy and financial crises)
The animals and plants we cannot live without
The peak oil crisis: Edging towards reality
Last week the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris released their annual report on the state of the world’s energy resources — World Energy Review 2008. As the world’s energy situation becomes more and more confused, with prices gyrating wildly, and with more voices warning of unprecedented problems just ahead, this 569-page report stands as the most authoritative description of what will happen to the world’s energy supply. The energy policies of the 28 countries that are members of the IEA in theory hinge on the report’s findings – and that is where the trouble comes in. … if one reads between the lines and uses the data to draw one’s own conclusion, the new report simply screams that peak oil and all that it implies is just about here.
Top 7 Reasons to Buy Used Goods
If you need to buy a consumer good, remember that buying USED is the most environmental choice you can make in almost all cases. If you’re preparing for peak oil, you might want to practice buying used goods- they might be all that’s available in a post-peak economy.
The squeeze is on
“I’d rather you didn’t mention the company by name. In fact, better not mention my name, either, because the story is a disaster. We don’t want (the information) out yet.”
From an officer in a small oilsands company – call him Don Fischer, – that comment sums things up for many juniors. Fischer argues, however, that the recent meltdown in global financial markets is only the killer blow in a credit squeeze within Canada’s petroleum sector that has been developing for three years.
Peak oil – Nov 20
The 30 greatest conspiracy theories: #20 The peak oil conspiracy
Kunstler and Darley view a post-oil future
Objectivity of the International Energy Agency
The perils of cheap oil
Byron King: Unsustainable energy trends
Food & agriculture – Nov 20
Silkworms: an environmentally friendly delicacy?
Game beware: it’s the return of the poacher
Portland’s low-income neighborhoods are city’s ‘food deserts’
United States – Nov 20
Dingell loses early test in bid to retain chairmanship of energy committee
President for 60 more days, Bush tearing apart protection for America’s wilderness
Obama brings US in from the cold
Premature triumphalism
The Transition Town movement has attracted a great deal of attention from within the Peak Oil community. Is it the wave of the sustainable future, or an experiment still waiting for results to come in?
