Peak oil (2) – May 27
Oil Reserves: Where Ghawar goes, the rest of OPEC follows
Oil price “head fake”?
CSM: Has Russian oil output peaked?
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Food & agriculture – May 27
For Texas farmers, production costs are spiraling along with crop prices
Lofty prices for fertilizer put farmers in a squeeze
Energy giants smell windfall from sulphur
Solutions – May 27
It’s the meat-eating, stupid
Sowing the seeds of a global revolution (guerilla gardenering)
Sustainable communities (otherwise – “dead doors that lead to nowhere”)
Transition Town sprouts in Peterborough, Ontario
Getting the corn planted this year
With corn prices triple the historical levels, growing corn for your own table use looks more sensible than ever, especially when it is not easy to find organic corn to buy.
Nuclear – May 26
Robots scour sea for atomic waste
NYT: Italy embraces nuclear power
NYT breathtakingly clueless on nuclear energy
Europe going nuclear despite warnings
A trip to the garden centre – Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
Garden centres are crammed with the most pointless unnecessary clutter, very little of it of any use to anyone who actually wants to garden, to grow anything useful. They are temples to a lost generation so removed from the land and from seeing gardens as something essential and as something productive that it beggars belief.
Supplies and prices – May 26
Crude oil rises a second day on Nigeria attack, Mexico output
Commodity prices soar,
but are they in a bubble?
George Soros: rocketing oil price is a bubble
Saudi Khursaniyah oilfield not pumping yet – Aramco
Oil ripples – May 26
Oil’s surge causing major changes in US economy
What if gas cost $100 a gallon?
Oil prices in Australia
Oil revenue and sovereign wealth funds
Consequences of rising oil prices for producing countries
India oil firms weeks away from bankruptcy
Damage control
Renewables – May 26
UK: Labour plans green revolution to slash energy prices and win back lost voters
Will the rate-of-conversion problem derail alternative energy?
Housing & urban design – May 26
McMansions no more
Ceilings come down to earth
Barcelona as sustainable city model
Transport – May 26
Fuel suppliers demand airlines pay cash in advance
Houston has lift-off as oil price rises (airline worries)
End of the road for British motorists
Railroads 4 times more fuel efficient than trucks
North America’s Amish community: least likely to be devastated by collapse
This past week I had the opportunity to spend a day with Amish relatives. This visit was colored by my acute awareness of civilization’s collapse and the ramifications of that reality for most of us.
