Peak oil data – Sept 23
Snapshot from the EIA Monthly Review
Forecasts and EIA oil production numbers
Canada energy round-up
Tidbits from the WEC report
Staff
Peak oil – Sept 23
FSN: Richard Heinberg interview
Matt Simons: Meeting the challenge
In praise of ASPO 6
ASPO conference – final afternoon
$100 oil anyone?
The button to hit is ‘Start,’ not ‘Panic’
The dollar – Sept 23
Fate of currencies pegged to the dollar
Saudi riyal hits 21-year high
Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright
Dollar plunges on fears Saudis might drop peg
Climate science – Sept 23
Record sea ice melt this summer larger than Texas and Alaska
Methane powered runaway global warming
African deluge brings misery to 1.5m people
The North Pole is melting
Climate policy – Sept 23
Pope to make climate action a moral obligation
New Zealand to introduce a GHG trading scheme
Bill McKibben: To deal with climate change, the first step is to do the numbers
Transport – Sept 23
Drivers test paying by mile instead of gas tax
Buffett: Red hot about railroads
Return to the bike? Hard sell in Beijing
Geopolitics – Sept 23
Demographers: Islam and the West – not a clash of civilizations, but a honeymoon
America and Iran: the spark of war
The war is about oil but it’s not that simple
Deep thought – Sept 23
Sharon Astyk: Why I believe in individual action
Who said Marx wasn’t green?
Is it time for Americans to start cutting our baby emissions?
North America – Sept 23
Nevada’s Sen. Reid cites other states that are turning away from coal
The 40-million-tonne challenge: Campbell’s about to sign us all up
Critique: Greenspan on energy and climate change
Coal to Oil: Same system, nothing new
Starting now, the Chinese government will support going into CTL projects full throttle, country-wide. It must do so to reduce oil import dependency and give itself a source of fuel oil or feedstock for products we manufacture everyday.
Food & agriculture – Sept 22
Book Review: Guerrilla Gardening
Lunch With Alice Waters, food revolutionary
Restricting calories may lead to longevity
The peasant in present day India
NY Times: A chicken on every plot
Amazon farmers grow grain, save the forest
Agriculture in a post-oil economy
Agriculture in the future will be largely a “family affair”: without motorized vehicles, food will have to be produced not far from where it was consumed. But what crops should be grown? How much land would be needed? Where could people be supported by such methods of agriculture?
