Climate & environment – Nov 16
Insecticide! (An ecological disaster that will affect us all)
Brown clouds of pollution a huge threat to Asia: UN
Climate change may carry huge price tag for California
The greenhouse gas That nobody knew
Staff
Energy industry – Nov 16
Environmentalists win big EPA ruling on coal emissions
Does natural-gas drilling endanger water supplies?
Limited feasibility of Carbon Capture and Storage systems will mean more nuclear electric power
IEA report & peak oil – Nov 16
From the perspective of biophysical economics
Comments from new German peak oil site
From Sri Lanka: Peak oil’s bell is ringing
Andrew McKillop: Global energy transition plan
Deep thought – Nov 16
Kurt Cobb: The (not so) invincible society
Are human beings hard-wired to ignore the threat of catastrophic climate change?
John Gray in conversation
Memories of the Depression still sear
Higher lows
One indicator of resource depletion will be whether a new floor is established that is significantly above previous historical real prices. In other words, higher lows will be more indicative of our situation than higher highs which are usually a very temporary phenomenon. Well, the bust has arrived much sooner than I anticipated. So, now seems like a good time to evaluate.
Independent-minded – Nov 15
The woman with a tiny carbon footprint
What indy media heroes can teach us
Prince Charles – Unelected, yes – but a true green hero
Iraq’s oil and the future
Few people can have a better knowledge of Iraq’s oil than Dr. Issam A. R. al-Chalabi. Kjell Aleklett reports on a detailed discussion with the man who has been chairman for SCOP, the State Company for Oil Projects, the chairman of INOC, the Iraq National Oil Company, as well as Iraq’s vice-oil minister and oil minister.
Peak oil – Nov 15
Robert Hirsch tells peak oilers to (temporarily) pipe down
‘Peak oil’ adherents grow in number and influence
Life after (peak) oil in North Carolina
‘Energy Beyond Oil’ presentation now on-line
Peak oil is subject of short story contest winner
Food & agriculture – Nov 15
‘Dig for Victory’ garden – rediscovering WW2 efforts in the UK
Ugly fruit and veg make a comeback
NYT: The protein pyramid
The Southern Willamette bean and grain project (regional food in Oregon)
Transport & urban design – Nov 15
A resilient suburbia? 2: cost of commuting
European support for bicycles promotes sharing of the wheels
Congestion pricing: Can tolling be fair?
Infrastructure planning ignores peak oil: ASPO-Australia
Hard times – Nov 15
Retail sales drop by most on record
Krugman: Depression economics returns
Is the mall dead?
Buying binge slams to halt
As factories close, Chinese workers suffer
ODAC Guest Commentary – IEA is getting rattled by events
The IEA is getting rattled by events. For some years, the IEA, EIA and OPEC all maintained the view that oil resources are so large that they must be sufficient to maintain supply. Other leaders in government and industry uncritically accepted that position, and stopped worrying. But the IEA has now broken ranks, to accept that there is a looming problem of supply, even from the large remaining resource. Current trends in energy supply and consumption, in their own words, are patently unsustainable, as ODAC has maintained for some years.
