Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
John Michael Greer Peak oil is rapidly becoming the elephant in the living room of modern American politics. Can we begin a reasoned national discussion of the end of the petroleum, or is Weimar America headed for a disastrous repetition of the politics of scapegoating and avoidance?
Want floor time? First, get past Bartlett
Have we reached peak oil? NASA scientist vs Hudson Institute
Heinberg: Calm before the storm
Paul Ehrlich talks population, peak oil
Visionaries or cranks? How can you tell?
Peak oil a myth, claims geoscientist
Natural air conditioning with sandwiches and a shake
Don’t let green roofs be victims of the crunch
Better than new: Give you home an eco facelift
Indian firms hit as China plants shut
Shipping: The greening of the ocean waves
Will soaring transport costs reverse globalization?
BAA invented ‘green’ jumbo to help win Heathrow case
Green Streets project reduces carbon footprint and energy bills
A recession will give ecological development a new life
Gore is like Moses, who has gone to the mountaintop to receive God’s 11th commandment that thou shalt not burn fossil fuels. Unfortunately, our civilization was founded on the abundant energy fossil fuels offer. We can not simply undo that dependency in a decade as we near the top of a growth curve that was made possible by burning coal, oil and natural gas.
Rebuilding a Dutch tradition, one windmill at a time
Knobbly cucumbers could make a comeback
Solar power from Saharan sun could provide Europe’s electricity, says EU
Geoff Dixon of QANTAS Airlines is the first CEO of a major Australian company to publicly discuss the taboo subject of peak oil. He writes: “The global aviation industry faces, not a shock or a blip – not even a crisis – but a permanent transformation. The drivers of this transformation will be globalisation, accelerated by permanently high fuel prices. And the result will be a new aviation world order.”
Pemex may drill outside Mexico for first time if reforms fail
Record Iranian output belies oil sector travails
Russia’s Gazprom agrees to develop Iranian oil, gas fields
You say crisis. I say opportunity (Jim Gray of Canadian Hunter Exploration)
Coal carves a place in the future of global energy
Coal’s fundamentals ‘may be stronger than oil’s’
How coal shortages in China will spark more foreign takeovers of U.S. assets
Big changes will be required in the international development community if it is to cope with the emerging energy crisis. RESET and Practical Action with whom this report has been produced, spelt out how training in truly sustainable, non-fossil fuel dependent energy generation, construction and farming methods will be essential if communities are to become resilient to energy price rises. (Report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil – British House of Commons)
Global warming is a brutal truth
Code red: Climate skating on thin ice, authors say
