United States & Canada – July 16
Xcel set to cut power to 47,000
Made in America energy policy
Hog heaven, part 1 – Increased offshore drilling does not substitute for national energy policy
Staff
Climate – July 16
True to form, Bush administration still refuses to regulate greenhouse gases
White House buries climate change deaths report
Diary: Colorado River drought
Matt Simmons and the Five Psychological Stages of Grief
This is a wonderful clip. When Matt Simmons was recently asked to go on CNBC’s ‘Fast Money’ to discuss the high oil prices, he clearly stunned the presenters with his forthright analysis of society’s current perilous situation. When asked if $147 a barrel is a ‘wake up call’ he replied “yes, but we’re not having a wake up call, we’re having a witch hunt for who got us here”, a succinct analysis of the current world situation.
Rob Hopkins uses the reaction to the situation by the studio panel to illustrate the Five Psychological Stages of Grief that he believes people go through in coming to terms with this information.
Colleges should plan – and teach – for an oil-scarce world
College leaders, with help from facilities managers, sustainability directors, faculty members, and even students, should think hard about how systems on their campus would operate in an energy-scarce world. That thinking should range beyond running part of the campus fleet on a cafeteria’s fryer oil, a seemingly-popular response at the moment.
United Kingdom – July 15
Brown sets ‘no limit’ on number of reactors to be built
‘Lights will go out’ by 2015 if Lords rejects Planning Bill
U.K. producer prices rise at fastest pace since 1986
Environment – July 15
Forests to fall for food and fuel (RRI report)
Buying your own wood
Bulgarian eco town ‘the biggest mistake of Norman Foster’s career’, say protesters
Prices & supplies – July 15
‘The best thing that could happen to the country is if no oil is found’
Côte d’Ivoire: City on Go-Slow as Residents Protest Sudden Fuel Price Rise
Japan’s fishermen: ‘We’re dying’
Transport – July 15
Rural airlines take flight
Personal Rapid Transit: preempting the need for oil in urban transport
Namibia: Multitudes switch to bicycles
Bike shelters to be built at 4 CTA train stations
Peak Oil Review — July 14th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– China
– Blackouts and Shortages
– Washington
– Energy Briefs
Solutions & Sustainability – July 14
The bicycling horticulturalist
Gardens Save the Day in ‘WALL-E’ and America’s Cities
The happy minimalist
Alex Steffen: The outquisition
Peak oil – July 14
Bush will end executive ban on offshore drilling
12mn barrels per day ‘is Saudi Arabia’s oil limit’
Peak oil media guide
Le Québec doit conquérir son indépendance énergétique d’ici 2030
Wendell Berry: Digging In
Wendell Berry on Small Farms, Local Wisdom and the Folly of Greed Digging In (excerpts)
