United States – Sept 20
Palin’s Petropolitics
Speth: Progressive Fusion
A crisis that could make the US election a cleaner contest
Staff
Housing & urban design – Sept 20
Ecocities emerging
For good neighbours, live in a quiet, car-free street
Rejoice! It’s time to reclaim the car park
The last bailout
What we are seeing is the convergence of colossal financial mismanagement with energy stringency. Not surprisingly the authorities think that only money is the problem.
Transport – Sept 19
Greening the dream that drives America
Why the gasoline engine isn’t going away any time soon
All-electric vehicles no magic bullet: scientist
Creativity helps Rochester’s transit system turn a profit
How to reduce global fuel consumption by 75 percent
The car is dying; it’s the age of the bike
Peak oil – Sept 19
Nate Hagens: No naked short selling => No short selling at all => No future energy?
China, climate change and US dollars (and peak oil)
Cantarell – Mexico’s own double-whammy huracán
Librarian’s guide to peak oil
Controversal path to possible glut of natural gas
Food & agriculture – Sept 19
Instead of eating to diet, they’re eating to enjoy
US university campuses ban cafeteria trays in effort to go green
Australian farmers go green as petrol prices rise
Plants in forest emit aspirin chemical to deal with stress
An unlikely marriage: organic farmers and genetic engineering
ODAC Newsletter – Sept 19
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Deep Thought – Sept 19
Practice Losing Farther, Losing Faster: Everyday History in a Crashing Economy
Following the credit crisis futurologist Richard Watson predicts the future trends
The Wisdom of Public Prediction Markets And The Limits Of Statistics
Launch of Wikia Green
Renewables – Sept 19
Duke Energy’s New Solar Concept Has Potential to Supercharge Solar & Smart Grid Companies
Physicists release report pushing for greater efficiency in transportation and building sectors (video and transcript)
Ethanol Makers Hit by Cash Crunch, Corn Prices
Berkeley council to vote on solar tax district
Interesting times and oil prices
A good deal of the recent short term weakness in oil prices has been due to forced selling of energy holdings, which can only continue for so long, until fundamentals reassert themselves, and I expect that an accelerating net export decline will outpace the decline in demand, resulting in higher oil prices.
Albert Bates on peak oil, relocalisation and why the hippys were right all along
What is so wonderful about Albert’s talk is the incredible story he tells about what can be achieved when people work together to make something happen. The story of hundreds of middle-class city hippy kids turning up on 1000 acres of poor farmland in Tennessee and having to work out how to grow food, build houses, make electricity and so on, is a great story for our times, showing what the combination of circumstance, passion and necessity can draw out of us.
Off to ASPO
Posting will be lighter than usual the next few days, since I’ll be preparing a short talk for the ASPO-USA conference in Sacramento. I’ll be back Wednesday. In the meantime, Simone from the UK will be at the helm.
