Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Bertrand Russell on savants, gardeners and happiness
Oxford word of the year: “Locavore”
If it’s fresh and local, is it always greener?
Eating + Ecology = Locavore
Eco-friendly kangaroo farts could help global warming
Growing food when the oil runs out
We are what we eat
When the oil price soared to over $99 per barrel earlier this year, the cause was not surging demand, nor speculation, nor even impending peak oil, but a forecasting error by the International Energy Agency. That’s according to a presentation by veteran analyst Henry Groppe.
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– PPeak Exports
– PChina’s Fuel Shortage
– PEnergy Briefs
India’s role
Poor countries must also curtail carbon emissions
Down Under revolution
Joseph Stiglitz: Carbon-taxing the rich
Don’t banish global business from the great climate battle
Open Europe’s O’Brien calls EU’s CO2 program ‘failure’
RFF’s Pizer on U.S. climate policy
Did an oil-company CEO just endorse peak-oil?
Satellite images contradict Saudi peak oil theory : Bernstein Research
Peak oil reading group
Expect to be buffeted by oil price uncertainty
Nate Hagens: Fantasies for replacing fossil fuels
Panelists discuss climate changes, peak oil: ‘Kill your lawn’
Peak oil and global warming inextricably linked
More than half of Amazon may be lost by 2030
Guardian special:
Cities rise to climate challenge
Virtual climate conferences?
Economist on food: Cheap no more
Food prices climbing, with no end in sight
The garden of the future? (Forest gardens)
New film Tableland documents sustainable farming
Food Summit asks: What’ll we do when the oil runs out?
Diesel prices pick farmers’ wallets
More than 200 leading climate scientists have today warned the United Nations Climate Conference of the need to act immediately to cut greenhouse gas emissions, with a window of only 10-15 years for global emissions to peak and decline, and a goal of at least a 50% reduction by 2050.
Astyk’s law: “Top-down strategies must be concurrent with and redundant to bottom-up strategies.”
When OPEC gathers in a closed room to discuss a production increase, only one country (the Saudis) can do much about increasing production. Most of the rest just want to see higher and higher prices, in some stable currency, so as to get the most real return for their oil before it runs out.
Brazil’s announcement of the Tupi discovery created a lot of buzz in the oil industry and the press. Let’s take a closer look at Brazil’s oil production and what role the Tupi field will likely play in the future.
U.S. policy on Russia currently amounts to this: “You hurt my feelings.” It would be better to focus on issues, and the main one is energy, the foundation of Russian — and Putin’s — power.
