Dropping your load to reduce your carbon footprint
When the electricity is used is equally important as how much is used, in order to avoid blackouts and minimize the need to bring more power plants on line.
Jon Wellinghoff
The peak oil crisis: hurricanes and meltdowns
The news for the week: our gasoline stocks are so short that a hurricane hit is likely to result in shortages; world supplies are unlikely to increase enough this year to avoid much higher prices in the next six months; and some think we are seeing the beginning of the mother of all economic meltdowns.
Not much should happen before Labor Day, however, so we can all enjoy the rest of the driving season.
Peak oil news – Aug 22
TOD Canada focus on financial crunch
World oil forecasts including Saudi Arabia
ODAC news
Peak oil – Aug 22
Matthew Simmons interview: All the canaries have stopped singing
The social effects of peak oil
Dale Allen Pfeiffer takes a closer look at Escape from Suburbia
Jay Hanson: Can American government survive “peak oil”?
Gregory Green, director of Escape from Suburbia
Biofuels – Aug 22
LA Times: Drunk on ethanol
Lord Oxburgh : Biofuels and the future
Biofuels switch a mistake, say researchers
China, India face water risk from biofuel: IWMI
Forget biofuels – burn oil and plant forests instead
Waste and consumerism – Aug 22
Africa wages war on scourge of plastic bags
Japan eyes chopsticks for biofuel
Dirty chopsticks picked up in new China scare
Sharon Astyk: Toys R Not Us
Climate – Aug 22
Climate advocacy and the 2007 Australian election
Climate change called security issue like Cold War
Blow off the Arctic ice melting…let’s drill for more oil
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 23
When the sun is shining, break out the solar oven
Slow is beautiful
Building the climate camp (video)
Immunize yourself against future hype
A breakthrough in oil & gas industry technology is not inevitable. Indeed, it is not very likely. Painstaking linear growth in technological advances permit more oil to be recovered each year, but Seidensticker’s myths about technology change apply to the oil & gas industry just as they apply to most human endeavors.
Peak oil news – Aug 21
Hurricane Dean to make landfall in Mexico today: Cantarell now in Dean’s sights
Hurricane’s impact on oil infrastructure
Open letter to Duncan Clarke (PO skeptic)
High oil prices and the new dirty energy
Peak Oil Digest from Cornwall
Share slump and credit crunch: passing peak oil
The unfolding financial turmoil may eventually be seen as a historic event. Another turning point, the worldwide peak in oil production, is a key player in this unfolding drama, although its role goes unnoticed by most in the audience.
How to push the oil levers in the wrong direction
If crude oil is becoming scarce, the first reaction often is, “where can we find more of it?”
