Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Mattie Porte Now that he’d warmed us up with a talk on ‘Peak Everything,’ Richard Heinberg said he’d come back to try out some new ideas he’d working with over the past few weeks. “It’s all a big unknown,” he admitted, but had decided we were the kind of audience that could handle the unknown. Where are we? Where are we going?
Ad nauseam: State Farm on the humiliation of biking to work
Van Jones on Colbert Report (green collar jobs)
Colbert special on water: Dean Kamen interview
The Unicyclist – adrenaline, no oil needed
Seeking clean coal science ‘only option’
UK
coal power policy under attack from top scientists
NYC approves fees on city drivers
Life in the ‘burbs: heavy costs for families, climate
Eco-towns? Britons say no thanks
Walkable towns curb obesity, pollution
Iran torpedoes US plans for Iraqi oil (Basra)
Military feels the gouge of fuel costs as Iraq, allies watch oil profits soar
Farrakhan: Is oil the motive for war?
Truckers protest high fuel prices
Life without transport by oil is closer than we think
Former Exxon insider: People driving their cars to the end of the oil age
Aloha Airlines halting passenger service
As production of biofuels increase to counter dependence on foreign oil and high fuel prices, some scientists worry that the world’s phosphorus supply will slowly diminish, limiting our ability to grow crops and forcing fertilizer prices through the roof.
Dead zone plan adrift (9 states cause 75% of N & P pollution in Gulf of Mexico)
Land once preserved now being farmed
Rice jumps to record, corn near high
Why localism matters
Group seeks EPA rules on vehicle emissions
Obama: I’d hire Gore
Clinton, Obama take on Big Oil
The executives of the five biggest oil companies were called to testify at a congressional hearing on Tuesday. Lawmakers took them to task for making enormous profits but investing next to nothing in renewable sources of energy. (Excerpts from testimony) Followed by commentary from analyst Steve Kretzmann of Oil Change International.
Even the most hard-hitting questioners in the Congressional grilling of oil execs failed to pin the execs down on the real issue. Namely, how to convince an oil industry that is running up against absolute supply limits to switch gears and invest resources in the “clean energy revolution.” Calif. Rep. Jerry McNerney was the only one to utter the words “peak oil.”
Throughout the history of oil reporting, there has been one major aspect that the press has remained largely silent on: peak oil. (Op-ed from “the conscience of American journalism”)
