Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Robert L. Hirsch Ph.D. A framework is needed for planning the mitigation of oil shortages created by world oil production reaching a maximum and going into decline. Some argue that normal market evolution will be adequate to avoid shortages. We assume that will not be the case.
Astyk: Reconsider what you eat
Short on labor, US farmers shift to Mexico
Are air miles and organic food compatible?
The compost post
The English apple: a story of patriotism, dysfunction and cheap jam
Helium shortage hampers research and industry
Balloon sellers find helium in short supply
TODers mull peak helium
Exxon’s Tillerson says `nationality of energy’ is irrelevant
In France, energy control becomes patriotic
US pays the price of relying on foes for oil
In the name of oil
Gazprom pushes Exxon to drop China export plans
Iraq oil: The vultures are waiting
Greens need to grasp the nettle: aren’t there just too many people?
Interview with Professor Albert Bartlett
Fishery collapse in the North Sea
Planet in Peril coming to CNN in October
Zac Goldsmith: ‘Peak oil informs everything’
Leftist discussion of Peak Everything
Atlantic: The world’s most essential oil field may be in decline
Matt Simmons series
TOD community update
ODAC News
Oil addiction is ugly (DIY video)
Get your green on in Energyville (game from Chevron)
Kunstler: The dis-information society
Conservatives have opportunity to introduce a green agenda
Turn off the TV and join the Tory green revolution
Kunstler gets a letter from an employee in the British oil industry
New nuclear row as green groups pull out
Rebels blow up pipelines in Mexico, disrupting service
Mexico: A nation-state dissolves? (Jeff Vail)
Tribes sabotage Kirkuk pipelines
APEC conference ends with meaningless spin about aspiring to “do something”
Ex-heads of state tell current heads of state how to solve climate crisis
Bin Laden on global warming
NRDC’s Dan Lashof compares cap-and-trade, carbon tax
NGOs unite on Earth’s greatest crisis
Kings of the coal habit
China is a case study in which rising food prices and natural disasters influence biofuel production, especially ethanol, leading to new regulations for gasoline exports.
Renewable sources of energy cannot come anywhere near to replacing fossil fuels in sufficient quantity to keep running the current globalised, capitalist industrial economy, according to Ted Trainer’s new book.
