China – Aug 25
Coal production and consumption in China
China warns on winter energy supply
Staff
Europe & UK – Aug 25
German churches set up energy firm to fight rising fuel prices
George Monbiot: Climate change is not anarchy’s football
UK risks climate leadership over dirty coal, say US groups
Renewables – Aug 25
New rays of hope for solar power’s future
Will US solar businesses weather the coming storm?
Gail the Actuary: Biofuel conference call including a new biodiesel from algae
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 25
Rosie Boycott: People are recognising that food is the great binder
Growing green in Detroit
Ten steps for individuals from Post Carbon
An inside look at an emergency survival kit
Maasai ‘can fight climate change’
Extreme carbon negativity: 280 ppm by 2050
Peak oil and prices – Aug 25
Charles Hall on the International Geology Congress in Norway
Raymond James: any ‘meaningful’ oil disruptions will cause ‘significantly higher’ prices
Chris Nelder on peak oil and cleantech opportunities
Michael Klare: Past its peak
The new black: fashion fetishises oil
Urban design – Aug 25
Walkable Seattle
NYC’s Summer Streets a success!
Tyranny of distance fuels rising grocery prices in Australia
Choking suburbs to stop global warming
Prof. Harold Hill’s America
Optimism sells. It is one of the staples of American life. And, it makes it difficult to tell Americans bad news.
Peak Oil Review – Aug 25, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Electricity Supplies in Asia
– Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)
– Briefs
When all your best employees are going broke
Consider the notion that it is possible to safeguard a company and its employees against a continuously worsening economic environment, even onto complete economic and political collapse.
Harpooning the earth – drilling with Charlie
If guys like Charlie stopped working for a year, you’d have to turn a few things off, big things like, say, New York and Ohio.
United States – Aug 25
Americans think worst of 2008 oil spike over: poll
In California’s Central Valley, the ruins of the housing bust
NYT:
US and global economies slipping in unison
Oil and gas playing dumb and numbers
Deep thought – Aug 24
EROEI – most important criterion for deciding how to meet energy needs?
The source of hope
David Holmgren and FutureScenarios (re-post)
Ghost Town & Land of Wolves (Chernobyl)
Economic growth mongering and its apologists
