Renewables – Apr 15
Spain’s gain from wind power is plain to see
Solar and wind powered by tax breaks
Biogas fuelling the Olympic torch?
Staff
Transport – Apr 15
Homer-Dixon: future of travel and conferences
Oil, environment, lifestyle fuel Asia’s two-wheeler boom
Kunstler on Flagstaff and hydrogen cars
Housing & urban design – Apr 15
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
The incredible shrinking city: Youngstown, Ohio
Creating sustainable cities
Food & agriculture – Apr 15
Struggling Egypt where bread means life
WSJ: Food inflation, riots spark worries for world leaders
Monbiot: Credit crunch? The real crisis is global hunger. And if you care, eat less meat
How to drink beer and save the world
Peak oil – Apr 15
EIA conference: Oil prices set to increase further
Comments on Michael Lynch
Rep. Bartlett delivers 41st PO talk
Gail Tverberg: Economic impact of an energy downturn
James Hansen on PO and climate
Peaks and discoveries – Apr 15
Petrobras discovers world’s 3rd-largest oil field
WSJ:
Russian oil slump stirs supply jitters
Bakken no energy panacea
The specialization trap
One of the lessons of history is that the advantages of economic specialization and centralization are paid for by drastic risks when a society enters the downslope of its history. Our society, more specialized and centralized than any before it, faces more extreme risks — but there are steps that can be taken to counter those risks, if we choose to take them.
Supply and demand – Apr 14
Saudi King says keeping some oil finds for future
Saudi cuts output
IEA cuts world oil demand growth by most in 7 years
IMF forecasts slow global growth
Oil price defies easy calculation
US State Dept.’s Izzo ‘frightened’ by NOCs
Crisis & response – Apr 14
World finance ministers emphasize food crisis over credit crisis
Energy and food problems need global solutions, says Jeffrey Sachs
Bill McKibben: Where have all the joiners gone?
New York Times on the New Survivalism
Peak Oil Review — April 14th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The Debate in Mexico
– Russia’s Calvary Charge has Probably Ended
– Energy Briefs
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet – excerpt from Klare’s new book
Surveying the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape, Michael Klare, the preeminent expert on resource geopolitics, forecasts a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger. (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
A fairly simple way to save millions In energy
If you sleep between sheets that have been dried in the open air, you will understand why my wife and I never even thought about saving electricity when we put up the clothesline you see in the picture.
