Deep thought – Mar 29
Kurt Cobb: Energy efficiency won’t matter without energy caps
Heinberg’s Peak Everything talk at Findhorn
Slavery’s staying power – more slaves worldwide than ever in history
Staff
Food & agriculture – Mar 29
High rice cost creating fears of Asia unrest
India rice export prices up again
Rosie Boycott: Only a radical change of diet can halt looming food crises
Gourmet magazine points the way toward a green and smart farm policy
Food prices rising across the world
Prices climb as fertiliser famine looms
Oil supplies – Mar 29
WSJ: Saudi desert’s gas mirage?
Greenland thaw may replace dog sleds with oil drills
Natural gas rush in Pennsylvania
China faces diesel, gasoline shortages
Peak oil – Mar 29
Udall, Lovins and Shell v-p on peak oil
Russian oil output to fall for first time in a decade
Sharon Astyk: Dissecting the Long Emergency
Peak oil is here, enjoy
Colin Campbell and the crack of doom
A response to Romm on peak oil
It’s high-time for climate activists to wake up and smell the coffee on peak oil. Peak oil problems are immediate and inimical to our ability to solve all the other problems we have — including climate.
Why Ethanol Production Will Drive World Food Prices Even Higher in 2008
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.
ODAC Guest Commentary – Where has it all gone wrong?
Last year’s ‘bêtes noires’ were private equity funds. They had seen the light in terms of leverage and were using debt to fund major acquisitions, taking advantage of ridiculously low credit spreads and getting tax relief on their interest payments into the bargain. The Danish government’s corporation tax revenues fell by an estimated 12% when a consortium of private equity firms bought the Danish telecom operator, TDC for over Euros10bn. Too late, the Danish – and German – governments have introduced legislation to limit corporate tax relief on debt interest.
Transport – Mar 28
Americans drove less in 2007 for first time
Slow down a little, save a lot of gas
Kunstler on the fate of Flagstaff & hydrogen cars
Why I localize
I have been working on localization for the past four years. Sometimes it has felt like I am swimming upstream. Actually it still feels like that – the difference is that now the current is not quite as strong.
The peak oil crisis: Load shedding
Energy shortages are now so frequent across the world there is a new web site devoted to keeping track of them all. There are currently 96 different places in the world that have reported some form of energy shortages in recent months.
The paradox of production
The obvious way to deal with the oncoming impact of peak oil is to find a way to produce more energy. as with so many obvious solutions, though, this one has a sting in its tail.
Oil prices and supplies – Mar 27
Oil hits $108 on pipeline blast
Seeking supply: Al Husseini interview
Hofmeister on Charlie Rose – ugly mood about energy prices?
