Peak oil – Nov 12
After the credit crunch, the oil crunch: watchdog warns over falling supplies (IEA report)
World needs four new Saudi Arabias, warns IEA
Jérôme a Paris: Betting on Yergin
Daniel Yergin: What lower oil prices mean for the world
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IEA report released – Nov 12
IEA documents online
The Oil Drum’s first look at the IEA report (new)
International Energy Agency warns of future oil ‘supply crunch’
Greenpeace: IEA falls short of an Energy Revolution needed to avert catastrophic climate change
IEA doesn’t see peak oil by 2030
Peak oil: Get ready for the oil-supply crunch, IEA says
The energy industry in the Age of Obama – Nov 12
The downside of cap-and-trade
W.Va. Democrats explore green politics (coal)
Environmentalists look to Obama to limit drilling
Obama expected to tighten coal regulations
Taking On King Coal
Should Big Oil give up tax breaks — or get cuts?
Deep Thought – Nov 12
A climate change conversion
Dmitry Orlov’s “Reinventing Collapse”: Thom Hartmann ‘Independent Thinker’ Review
Ecology and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
United States – Nov 12
Robert Rapier on Obama’s Energy Policy: Listening When We Disagree
Why It’s Time for a ‘Green New Deal’
The National Academies Summit on America’s Energy Future (online book)
Wiley Rein’s Weinberg says Obama win marks resurgence of aggressive regulation (11/11/2008) (video and transcript)
Reducing consumption key to a sustainable future
The forecasts of global ecological and economic collapse by mid-century contained in the controversial 1972 book The Limits to Growth, are still ‘on-track’ according to new CSIRO research.
A New Deal or a war footing? Thinking through our response to climate change
Any response to climate change is going to have to take seriously the costs of that response – the costs in terms of long term economic security, and the environmental costs. It may well be that we are close enough to our tipping point that we can’t afford a decade of massive, intensive industrialization that raises our use of fossil fuels, even for a big payoff on the other side.
Food & agriculture – Nov 12
Prices for oil, grains fall — but not for food
Fast Food: Just Another Name for Corn
Saving the nation’s seed supply (slideshow, audio)
United States – Nov 11
Klare: America’s energy crunch comes home
API chief Gerard talks Obama victory, climate
New cabinet position – “Energy and the Environment” ?
Obama set to push ‘big bang’ reform package
Ron Cooke: Obama faces hard political decisions (oil depletion)
Housing & urban design – Nov 11
How design must change in a warming, oil-scarce world
Urban design revolution in Philadelphia!
Edmonton to develop strategy reducing energy consumption
Green spaces promote good health, says study
Feeding, catching, and butchering chickens
Butchering anything is disagreeable work. But if a person is going to eat meat, he can hardly avoid the work just for that reason and not be a hypocrite. And because chickens are the one animal eminently practical for all homesteads (even the smallest), knowing how to butcher them can be a very handy skill to acquire.
Peak oil – Nov 11
Jeremy Leggett discusses the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security
Total sees nuclear energy for growth after peak oil
On theoretical, scientific or ideological grounds
