Peak Oil Review – Oct 27
A digest of peak oil news including:
– A spreading crisis
– OPEC
– Investment in new production
– Briefs
Tom Whipple
Peak oil groups – Oct 27
ASPO-7 conference in Barcelona – presentations online
The Permanent Oil Crisis Conference in Amsterdam, January 21 & 22, 2009
Post Carbon Institute Announces New Executive Director, Senior Fellows
ASPO-7 conference Barcelona 2008 – notes
Summary of the seventh annual European conference on Peak Oil held in Barcelona, Spain on October 20-21. This could probably be classified as the first conference of the formally-incorporated organization ASPO- International, which came into being following the Cork (Ireland) conference in 2007.
Why does fungibility matter (and where did it go)?
Our ability to substitute with alternative sources of energy is a factor of how fungible energy really is–how easily we can bring alternative B to replace lost supply of energy A. This article discusses how the real world tends to intrude on fungibility of our various sources of energy and what this matters.
A politics of crisis: low-energy cosmopolitanism
2008 is the year of a triple shock: the global food crisis (which made the realities of food-insecurity palpable), the global oil-price rise (which put localised transition on the agenda as never before) and the global financial hurricane (which gave the state as agent a new lease of political life). The long-term consequences can at present be only dimly discerned. [Discussion of leftism and localization]
Food & agriculture – Oct 26
Clinton links food, energy and financial woes
What does oil have to do with the price of bread? A lot
Food for the soul
Mediterranean paradox: poverty creates a healthy and delicious cuisine
Energy industry – Oct 26
Oil sands projects slashed as credit crisis hits Alberta
The carbonate question
Some regret locking in price for oil
Big Oil’s last stand
Matthew Simmons has bad news for Vermont
You think the financial crisis unfolded quickly? That’s nothing compared to how fast things could happen with oil. That’s the message Matthew Simmons, chair of the oil investment banking firm Simmons & Company International, delivered last month at a conference on peak oil. Vermont is unprepared for change of that rapidity.
Dawn of the new energy order
T. Boone Pickens has challenged the U.S. presidential candidates to come up with a detailed energy plan. This speech offers them the outline of a response to that challenge…
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 26
Edward Carpenter: a pioneering open democrat
A 21st-century battle we must win for all the world’s sake
Consuming anxiety
Turning a corner (on peak oil)
Sharon Astyk: What I’d like to have been able to say to New York Times readers
Transport – Oct 26
Who says Americans won’t ride mass transit?
General Motors, driven to the brink
Pedal-powered delivery methods save big bucks
Economics – Oct 26
Heinberg: A back-row seat at the collapse revue
Oil, house prices, credit? 3 parts of the same story
Oil prices – a little more of the story
Many world stock markets now off 50% or more from peaks
