Transport – Mar 4
The car is doomed, scientist warns
Radical plan to drive cars from key roads
Police bust copper theft racket
No place for pedestrians in Bangalore?
Staff
Food & agriculture – Mar 4
Agriculture’s new ‘golden age’
King of soya: environmental vandal or saviour of the world’s poor?
My forbidden fruits (and vegetables)
South Africa electricity crisis – and farmers
Okla. fight over poultry waste escalates
NYT on food: Priced out of the market
In hungry Zimbabwe, pet food as a priority
Water – Mar 4
Shallow water ahead for Panama Canal
Booming growth raises idea of dams
Water to be the next commoditised resource
Yemen sleepwalks into water nightmare
Climate – Mar 4
California’s hills are green, but all’s not well
Pictures of a changing planet
Tobacco and oil pay for climate conference
Global warming paradox? (info may not help)
UK climate policy and activism – Mar 4
Climate camp to target coal power station
PM’s green credentials are not in the bag
Monbiot: Did the Standard tell the truth about the Heathrow climate camp?
Energy policy – Mar 4
Thirsting for energy in India’s boomtowns
OPEC rethinking production cut plans
Will Saudis export their NG?
Inflation and petroleum depletion in Trinidad
Post carbon living: beyond technofix
There is an overwhelming need for non-technological responses to our global environmental crisis.
Peak oil – Mar 4
IEA’s Fatih Birol: We can’t cling to crude
Ken Livingstone – Peak oil “opportunity” for London Mayor
Nansen G. Saleri: The world has plenty of oil
Fears of a commodity crash grow (oil too?)
Bread and oil: rising food prices and the Middle East
Review: World Made by Hand by James Kunstler
The novel presents a fictional world that is at once idyllic and post-apocalyptic, reassuring and frightening.
Revisiting “The End of Cheap Oil”
Prior to writing the article “The End of Cheap Oil” for the March 1998 issue of Scientific American magazine, Colin Campbell and I wrote four important oil and gas studies totaling about 1350 pages. After publication, our article was chosen as one out of 25 stories in the book Censored 1998, published by Sonoma State University.
Peak Oil Review — March 3rd, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Canada
– $4 Gasoline
– Energy Briefs
Uninvited observations
I understand that the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO) will not always be invited to speak at CERA Week (Cambridge Energy Research Associates annual conference in Houston), but if I had been invited I could have discussed the CERA 2006 forecast of future oil production.
