Peak oil – Sept 29
Oil prices and the GCC: Could the region be stoking oil prices?
Roscoe Bartlett – one of Slate’s 80 “silver lions”
Steven Martinovich, Enter Stage Right
Staff
United States & Canada – Sept 29
A shattering moment in America’s fall from power
Tangled embrace of the three E’s
The Canadian solution to the subprime credit crisis
A ‘Wise Energy Use’ Stock Portfolio
Peak Oil Review – Sept 29
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– The bailout
– Gasoline shortages
– Venezuela and its friends
– Briefs
Transport – Sept 29
Vancouver’s long commuters face problems of peak oil
The Jet Set
High flyers: Civilians fly fighter jets. (video)
New World Order
Solutions, solutions, solutions: Motivating college students, and the future of ASPO-USA
“Young people are turned off by the doom and gloom that comes with haggling over the peak date and imagining how difficult and different life will be on the other side of Hubbert’s curve. We believe you when you say it’s going to peak, and those who don’t will when it’s properly explained. We don’t need to be converted, we need to be motivated.”
Deep Thought – Sept 29
The new sage of Wall Street: author of The Black Swan
Reinventing Reality (or Collapse Sandwich) – Orlov and Pinchbeck (podcast)
Portland Freedom Tribe 2010: from Palin to Paradise
A crash course
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has earnestly explained this past week that bad lending practices are the No. 1 cause of the collapse of the U.S. financial system. What would he prefer to have as the primary cause of the collapse of the U.S. financial system?
Peak oil in the New South Wales parliament
“New South Wales and Sydney’s over-reliance on petrol makes us extremely vulnerable to impacts [of peak oil], and we must protect current and future generations.”
Peak oil preparation: educating family, loved ones, and friends
Educating family, loved ones, and friends about Peak Oil and its impacts is a formidable challenge. Families that have a common understanding of Peak Oil problems can provide mutual support and group problem-solving, and they are more likely enjoy life and survive the Peak Oil catastrophe.
Bailout blues
What the $700 billion of the bailout means in terms of our nation’s energy infrastructure: America has about 130 million private homes, so that’s about $5,400 per home—not quite enough to put a one-kilowatt photovoltaic system on every roof.
Geopolitics – Sept 26
Moscow strengthens presence in U.S.’ backyard
US generals planning for resource wars
Pakistan’s Zardari Tries to Keep His Distance from US
Food & agriculture – Sept 26
Urban farmer’s work honored
UN to buy emergency food stocks from poorer farmers
Food Labels: Organic? Fair Trade? Certified Humane? What Does it All Mean?
