Peak Oil – July 22
The Independent on the NPC report
Mountaineers- climate criminals?
Peak Moment Newsletter (online videos)
An extension of the world import/export land model
Staff
Sex sells, but at what cost?
“Sex sells” is the mantra of advertisers, but our fixation with status symbols and material wealth is undermining our efforts to tackle climate change.
WAG YOUR BELL for P.O.
A comprehensive acronym for the things that each of us can do to deal with Peak Oil.
Oil and natural gas depletion and our future
Concise summary by a professor of mechanical engineering. Presented to the Mayor’s Green Team in Columbus, Ohio by members of the Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE).
Renewables – July 21
A German city’s long focus on the sun
Solar ovens- even in foggy San Francisco
Photovoltaic for Australia
Arizona shouldn’t waste public money on impractical PV cells
Solutions & sustainability – July 21
Peak oil and solutions on NPR (Albert Bates interview)
City commissioner Adams sees web of streetcars for Portland
Smart Cities: rethinking the city centre in Brisbane
Peak oil and gas – July 21
Peak oil by any other name
A natural gas crisis coming?
Oil tanker stocks fall
Mexico, Venezuela oil slumps could hit U.S. supply
Norway’s trade surplus down
Rapier: This week in petroleum
Canada energy round-up
Electricity demand – July 21
Maryland adopts plan For energy efficiency
UK
households test ‘smart’ electricity meters
Ghana distributes free energy saving bulbs
Climate policy – July 20
Climate change and true cost pricing
Making millions from climate change?
Greens to banks: Just say no to coal
Climate science – July 20
Huge dust plumes from China changing climate
Sea levels may rise by 9 inches this century
Drought in Western Africa launches migration wave
Strange – July 20
Bathtub toys circle globe
Rising floodwaters evict billions of Chinese mice; hillsides are black
Culture death
Cultural patterns, like political institutions, are likely to go through drastic changes as a society based on cheap abundant energy has to stand its assumptions on its head to deal with the twilight of fossil fuels. Can societies that have turned their cultural resources into a sideline of the marketing industry put them to more sustainable uses?
