Peak oil – Feb 27
Deutsche Bank jumps into peak-oil debate
Oil hits a high; some see $4 gas by spring
Things not as bad in Gulf as Simmons claimed
N. American NG production and EROI decline
This week in petroleum
Peak oil in a car review
Staff
Everybody’s jumping on the solar bandwagon
Solar energy growth fantasies that allow us to power our plug-ins and keep the lights on without disruption are not helpful in making the stepwise changes we will need to get us to 2050 all in one piece.
In the dark with both hands
Fertilizer shortages caused by the depletion of nonrenewable feedstocks are a significant worry in the wake of peak oil. There’s a simple solution — but most people in the industrial world don’t seem to be able to tell it from a hole in the ground.
Review of Dmitry Orlov’s Re-inventing Collapse
The book opens with a “recipe” for collapse soup and notes that the United States has combined all of the ingredients. While Re-Inventing Collapse isn’t a fluffy, feel-good novel, it is tempered with delicious outbursts of Dmitry’s mischievous humor.
Climate – Feb 26
Swiss experts call for sharp cut to CO2 emissions
Australia: What we can do now
UN climate head: US stand a `nonstarter’
US candidates on climate
Institutional investors climate action plan
It’s time for a body count
National – Feb 26
Oil prices take a toll on Gulf’s middle class
South America natural gas crisis
A credible European energy strategy
Transport – Feb 26
Greenpeace takes Heathrow (airport protest)
Climate critics rattle Virgin Atlantic CEO
Explosion of hybrid & electric cars coming in 2010-2012 (Felix Kramer)
Plug-in cars could increase air pollution
Food & agriculture – Feb 26
We chow down on a diet salted with mystery
Obesity more dangerous than terrorism
Opening of global seed vault in Arctic
UK farmers ride income rollercoaster
Uganda: Exposing the African Green Revolution
Food supply – Feb 26
Fighting a losing battle, UN admits
China staring at grain imports
Venezuela limits food exports
America’s grain stocks running short
Wheat: the unstable staple
Hog breeding cut – grain cost
At the movies – Feb 26
There Will Be Blood– dramatization of peak oil?
Renewal (religious environmental activism)
The Gleaners and I (extreme recycling)
Peak oil – Feb 26
U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) interview
Stuart Staniford: Whither the bumpy plateau?
Matt Simmons interview and slides
Global shortage of metals looming
The five stages of collapse
A taxonomy of collapse. For those of us who have gone through the emotional stages of reconciling ourselves to the prospect of social and economic upheaval, it might be helpful to have a more precise terminology that goes beyond such emotionally charged phrases as the ever-popular “Collapse of Western Civilization.”
