Bubbles burst – May 23
Why the oil price means bubble trouble
They’re wrong about China and oil
Oil prices will eventually return to earth
Engdahl: the real reason behind high oil prices
Staff
Environment – May 23
Study: climate inaction could cost trillions
Oceans turning acidic decades earlier
A sea of synthetic trash
China’s energy and environment (interview)
Hard times – May 23
Economic tide is rising for repo man
If $4 gas is bad, just wait
Oil threatens to pile £700 onto average fuel bill
High prices won’t stop the world growing
Consumers cut driving but not diets: poll
Food & agriculture – May 23
Insects (the original white meat)
Fertilizer and the looming global food crisis
Canadian fertilizer sellers appeal for government help in ensuring security
Heritage foods: preserving diversity II
Cars – May 23
Is Japan facing a post-car society?
Ford’s Mulally calls pickup retreat `fundamental’
Hybrid sales are zooming
Gas prices shorten trips for U.S. Memorial Day
Air travel – May 23
Airlines face battle for survival
9 airlines face threat of a credit downgrade
Airlines and alternative fuel
Byron King: Silent spring for aviation
Renewables – May 22
House passes massive tax extensions for renewable energy
Bartlett: Congressional delays hobble renewable energy
Environment is secondary to private profits (renewables vs sequestration)
Inter-connected global grid for green energy,
Biofuels – May 22
James Hamilton: Reconciling estimates: biofuels and food prices
New trend in biofuels has new risks (invasive weeds)
Biowar I: Why Battles over Food and Fuel Lead to World Hunger (book)
Solutions – May 22
The suburb-eating robot
Intent shapes environment, environment shapes life
Pedicabs a hit in Bellingham
Rob Hopkins on permaculture (interview)
Dmitry Orlov details the Collapse Party platform
Peak oil notes
Late-breaking developments:
– Prices
– The International Energy Agency
Oil the news oil the time
It is going to become increasingly hard to avoid energy headlines in general, as the topic finally becomes, as some of us have predicted for a while, the defining one of our epoch.
The peak oil crisis: The Secretary of Transition
As gasoline prices go higher and higher and as the polls show voters more and more concerned about how they are going to fill their tanks, the Congress is starting to stir.
