Deep thought – June 27
The problem with Big Green
Scenius, or communal genius
Methane burps & tele everything
Staff
Crisis & collapse – June 27
Thomas Friedman and his book, Hot, Flat And Crowded
Kunstler on wishful thinking
Mike Davis: Welcome to the next epoch – humanity’s meltdown (“Anthropocene”)
Sixty days, next year (diary of the future)
Peak oil interviews – June 27
Bruce Robinson (ASPO-Australia) on ABC urges governments to prepare for PO
City planner Richard Balfour (founder of the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive)
Jeffrey J. Brown, oil exploration geoscientist
Anadarko Petroleum CEO James Hackett
Transport – June 27
Future of air travel – part 2
Private jets targeted as symbols of inequality
Brunswick to shut boat plants, cut jobs
Kurt Cobb: Move people, not metal
Hydrogen fuel cell technology, and hydrogen car kits
Book review: ‘Post Carbon Cities’
At first I felt this book wasn’t enough for what is needed. Then reality straightened me out.
Transport – June 26
The Autobahn’s future and one-liter class racing
Summer is here, leave your car at home (discovering bicycling)
Garrison Keillor: Eulogy for the Winnebago
Solar, coal, nuclear – June 26
The economics of solar power
How clean coal cooks your brain
Radioactive déjà vu in the American West
Deep thought – June 26
The story of the Singularity is sweeping, dramatic, simple-and wrong
George Carlin’s gift to Apocalypse
Class struggle, fossil fuels and environmental catastrophe
Chellis Glendinning on techno-fascism
Prices & supplies – June 26
10 tough questions on oil and gas prices
Skeptics doubt Saudi Arabia can boost oil supply
Saudis or speculators? Oil-price finger-pointing
China fuel price hike as much politics as policy
Oil rebounds after fall on China fuel price hike
Peak Oil Notes- June 26
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– Prices and stockpiles
– Nigeria
$140 oil and speculation
A number of factors explain oil price increases perfectly well, with no need to go into conspiracy theories or market manipulations.
One thousand and one, one thousand and two
If you are listening to me now then you were born in The Age of Oil. A wondrous time when abundant energy has enabled humanity to work technological miracles. With enough energy we can solve any problem. … We are entering a new age, the Post-Peak Oil Age. Now the 100 year folly of modern economics comes to an end. No more fantasies that resources are infinite. No more delusions that growth goes on forever. Just us, all six billion of us, on our precious, fragile little planet. Now comes the hard part.
