After oil supplies dry up, what’s Plan B?
If you think the government’s response to Katrina was inept, brace yourself for peak oil.
Erica Etelson
Flood – Aug 27
Europe counts cost of flood chaos
Insurers get tough with UK Government
Second Thames flood barrier planned
Economic aftermath of Midwest Deluge
Flash flooding in SE Qld breaks records
Tar sands – Aug 25
Tar sands: The oil junkie’s last fix
Factoring sustainability into Alberta’s tar sands project
Transport – Aug 25
Netherlands: Car sharing gaining popularity
Bikes in Portland: We like fun, but we really like functional
Emerald cities – Aug 25
Environmental history of Seattle
China eco-cities update
Food & agriculture – Aug 25
Wheat prices reach record level
Wheat, forever? Perennial wheat crops
World hunger not an ideal spectator sport
Hurricane Dean robs Maya of livelihood: their trees
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 25
Altar call for true believers
‘Right to Dry’ movement: the clothesline makes a comeback
Sharon Astyk on cutting your laundry energy
Deeper than a mud puddle
Story from the point of view of a farmer in an intentional community in a post-Peak Oil world several years from now.
Oil producers – Aug 24
Shrinking supply of Venezuelan oil to the US
A pipe dream for Chavez?
Research boom in Arctic village as oil reserves draw big powers
BP-led pipeline In Turkey a possible target for rebels
Hurricane Dean will paralyze oil extraction in Mexico
Somalia reopen to oil majors
Nuclear – Aug 24
Japan’s nuclear plants at risk from quake damage
Green light for uranium sales to India
Solar and technology – Aug 24
Inkjet-printable solar panels… really!
When it comes to solar- lest we forget
Jeremy Leggett: Summoning the will to tap our solar brilliance
Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
Health, climate, water – Aug 24
WHO says sex, farming, growing population gives diseases breeding ground
Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
Sea rise outpacing forecasts due To Antarctica
Queensland fast-tracks emergency water supply for worst case scenario
