Oil prices a speculative bubble? Not so fast!
The breathtaking run-up in oil prices is linked to the crisis of world financial institutions. What the U.S. Government should not do.
Peter Pogany
Food & agriculture – July 1
Hoarding nations drive food costs ever higher
Slow Food Nation comes to San Francisco
Home-grown veg across UK ruined by toxic fertiliser
The Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Green Project
Interview with ‘The Future of Food’ director Deborah Koons Garcia
Path to Freedom – Living a simple, yet sustainable life
With headlines about rising food costs, soaring gas prices, and skyrocketing foreclosure rates that reach directly into everyone’s wallets, as well as sobering reports about the state of the earth’s environment, there is mounting pressure for some relief. The question arises: How can an individual or one family cope in such trying times?
Peak Oil – July 1
Cries in the Dark: Wall Street Journal profiles Bartlett, Woolsey, Karsner, Hirsch: These four voices want to make sure policymakers don’t dismiss the energy crisis — again.
Discussion with Matt Simmons
Grist interviews Kunstler
Economics – July 1
With oil at $140 a barrel, can you still love Julian Simon?
Credit-card debt snaring more high-income people
What the Export Land Model means for energy prices (and investors)
Geopolitics – July 1
Seymour M. Hersh: Preparing the battlefield -stepping up secret moves against Iran
U.S. advised Iraqi ministry on oil deals
Iraq’s oil ministry to decide on technical-service contracts
Drill here? – July 1
Gail Tverberg at TOD: The US offshore drilling debate – “start now” or “wait a while”
Three points on ANWR
Rhizome platform design
Can we get away from the hierarchal model of centralized manufacture and distribution, and replace it with a world where design emerges from open-source collaboration and is manufactured at the point of use by 3-D printers and community manufacturing centers?
Pasture: the foundation of garden farm success
A sure way to tell the direction you should take in garden farming is to watch the trend in commercial farming and then do the opposite. Commercial farming has de-emphasized — and all but ignored in the corn belt — pasture and tree crop farming because these types of agriculture lack the ability to return quick and high-gross profits.
Democrats are blowing our best chance for clean energy
How the Dems sacked one of the most important opportunities to turn around our energy future.
Peak Oil Review — June 30, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Forecasts
– Shortages
– Energy Briefs
World oil reserves and future production
Ray Leonard, Vice-President-Eurasia with Kuwait Energy Company, wrote in a 2001 paper: “By 2010, [oil] production … will start to rapidly decline. This will conflict with the steadily increasing demand for oil. The collision of these two trends will lead to shortages and increased prices, providing a strong incentive to shift to alternative fuel resources…Due to unequal distribution through the world of oil and gas supply and consumption, [the upcoming] transition will result in significant shifts in global power and wealth.”
