Transport – Mar 20
Peak oil and the future of green vehicles
Reinventing the wheel
Highwaymen take over Transportation Dept
Guardian leader: Fear and flying
Kunstler’s nightmare (WalMart in reverse)
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Renewables – Mar 20
They paved paradise and put up … a power source
Banana methane powered cars, pig poo power
Salt could shake up world energy supply
Oil prices & supplies – Mar 20
Reserves don’t matter as much as the cost of getting the oil out the ground
Why Exxon won’t produce more
High oil prices make some Africans richer, others poorer
How would oil prices look in Euros?
Mexican oil exports: start saying adios!
Mexico’s Cantarell Field may be one of the most poignant and easiest-to-grasp examples of what Peak Oil is all about. A drop in exports from Mexico may soon significantly impact the US.
Food & agriculture – Mar 19
Tim Flannery talks bio char and why we need to move into the renewable age
Russia sets new fertiliser export tariffs
Food miles skepticism
The local grain revolution
Deconstructing dinner in our schools
Peak oil – Mar 19
Peak oil theorist goes mainstream in Cape Town
Chris Skrebowski in South Africa
An EROEI review
Why we can’t quit (Hess interview)
United Kingdom – Mar 19
UK natural gas prices, already at historically high levels, set to rise
Monbiot: Carbon capture turning out to be another great green scam
Brown shouldn’t deny the potency of climate change
Blair to lead climate campaign
Standard criticised for ‘alarmist’ Heathrow story
The Americas – Mar 19
Venezuelan oil exports down 192,000 bpd in 2007
Mexico braces for an oil war
Shell wants to produce 5x more oil from tar sands
Energy independence- US’s road not taken
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 19
Holmgren and permaculture: Backyard answer to energy crisis
Rosemary’s gardens: permaculture and nutritional gardens in Cambodia
Hope dances eternal for media maven
A milestone in the dust
The rise of petroleum prices, in constant dollars, to the highest levels in history this month marks a milestone peak oil theorists have expected for some time. How much signal can we extract from the economic noise that surrounds record oil prices?
Climate – Mar 19
Back to 1988 on CO2, says NASA’s Hansen
Ireland’s rich, green scenery may fade to brown
Glaciers melt ‘at fastest rate in past 5,000 years’
Global warming rushes timing of spring
Making the most of a global depression
The problem is not just financial mismanagement; there is a deeper instability: the global economy is based on a fundamentally unsustainable exploitation of depleting natural resources.
