Solutions & sustainability – Mar 11
Vatican lists “new sins,” including pollution
Southern Baptists leaders on global warming
What’s your impact? (online test)
Staff
Climate – Mar 11
CO2 output must cease altogether: studies
Sweden goes shopping
China’s snow storms destroy forests (10% damaged)
EU told to prepare for flood of climate migrants
Deep thought – Mar 11
How The Limits to Growth was demonized
Alex Steffen: Zero, now
Jeff Vail: Rhizome at the community level
United States – Mar 11
Our three-decade recession
Labor’s war on global warming
Green movement is reaching for the rainbow
Volunteers help warm New England homes
Big Oil profit pushes Democrats to seek $1.8 billion
Arctic – Mar 11
Jean Laherrere: Arctic oil and gas ultimates
Could Arctic ice melt spawn new kind of cold war?
Climate change may spark conflict with Russia, EU told
Oil prices & supplies – Mar 11
Gas prices near records, following oil ($108/b)
Goldman Sachs:
New ‘super-spike’ might mean $200 oil
Energy crunch hinges on Bolivia
Unchanged Syncrude oil sands “increased” due to new category
Peak oil – Mar 11
Stuart Staniford: Food to 2050
Matt Simmons on Fast Money
Green UK MEP
Caroline Lucas on PO, food and Transition Handbook
The Australia 2020 Summit – climate & PO
Rep. Bartlett Delivers 39th PO talk (video)
Bouncing in the wool sack
The wise men of agribusiness did not predict that pasture farming— raising animals on pasture with little or no grain, would become the trend that it is today. Pasture farming more than anything else allows for a return of small scale agriculture because it is a low-cost way to get started in farming.
Economics – Mar 10
NAFTA’s legacy: the worst agreement Canada ever signed
Twin shocks of finance and resources
Krassimir Petrov: Eurozone economy heading for hard landing
Peak Oil Review — March 10th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Natural Gas
– $100 Oil and the Economy
– $57 Oil?
– Energy Briefs
Sense and nonsense from Nansen Saleri
A retired friend of ours from the oil industry once offered some sage advice: “When my colleagues in the industry are presenting, they are either buying or selling.” Saleri’s piece in the Wall Street Journal is a sales pitch.
Michigan conference on peak oil and climate starts May 30
The coming crisis in the oil supply is one of three key topics to be covered at a conference bringing together national experts on “peak oil”, climate change and an environmentally friendly and sustainable economy. The conference is scheduled for May 30 – June 1 in Grand Rapids.
