ODAC newsletter – Mar 7
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Staff
Peak oil – Mar 9
Chase Manhattan predicted peak oil in 1956
The militarization of energy security
Review: Kunstler’s World Made by Hand
Deffeyes: Dashed hopes for NY Times and PO
Dysfunction from on high – Mar 9
UK energy bills rise 50% for low use
A win-win-win solution (carbon sequestration and the “staightjacket of rationality”)
Nature: Science in retreat in Canada
A work of imagination
Our futures, personal and collective, depend as much on our imagination as the brute facts. If there is one thing that imagination makes possible, it is to believe that we are not necessarily limited by our past.
Highway of diamonds
A line from a Bob Dylan song has increasingly struck me as a perfect symbol for the choices we now face in dealing with climate change, peak oil and population: “I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it.”
We need to get it right. No one will thank us for a highway of diamonds with nobody on it.
Relocalizing Eden
The bioregion defined by the Willamette River watershed in Oregon is one of the most bountiful in the United States. The agricultural picture of the Willamette Valley, however, has been turned inside out in the last 25 years. Nearly everything we eat comes from some place else. (Case study)
The disconnect between oil reserves and production
Looking at published oil reserves, it is easy to get the idea that huge amounts of oil are left to be extracted, and that peak oil should not be a concern. Examining the situation more closely, we discover that published oil reserves aren’t that helpful in predicting future production. Evidence suggests that oil shortages may not be many years away.
Transport & urban design – Mar 8
EcoDensity’s unofficial champion
UK cyclists face a rough ride
Relative comfort – living as an extended family
‘Big shift’ to rail urged for UK
Weird unofficial Toyota ads
Waste & dysfunction – Mar 8
Greed in the name of green- eco-consumerism
Cradle to cradle design
What if the MSM simply can’t cover humanity’s self-destruction?
Paper or plastic?
Deep thought – Mar 8
The New Green Deal of 2009
Can we survive?
Norman Church: The elephant in the room
Personal survival in a world gone mad
Geopolitics – Mar 8
The disintegration Of Iraq
Peace breaks out on Colombia’s borders
Ukraine to pay gas bill, end crisis
OPEC – not as powerful as you might think
Peak oil – Mar 8
The IEA On Peak Oil
ASPO Newsletter – March 2008
Asia boom means oil will continue to rise
Review of Kunstler’s new novel
Scraping the barrel (anti-PO)
Life after the oil crash (Canada peakists)
Peak oil – true or false (abiotic oil)
