Lessons from our ancestors about the countryside
For a year five experts ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods. (What our great- great- great- … grandparents can teach us about saving the world.)
Megan Lane
Napping on the railroad tracks
“Even if you agree with a given forecast, you have to worry about the real possibility of significant divergence from it,” writes Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. How might he apply this to the peak oil issue?
A 10% reduction in America's oil use in 10-12 years
A 10% reduction in America’s oil consumption is not out of reach. There is an overlooked, practical, and affordable approach using technology available today that would allow the U.S. to achieve this goal in 2017.
Peak Oil Review – July 9, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
Weird – July 9
Energy-from-nothing device fails to move
Perpetual commotion: Huckster or genius?
Energy investors take note: The Second Law of Thermodynamics still applies
Peak oil rumblings – July 9
BBC: Oil supplies ‘face more pressure’
IEA sees oil supply crunch looming
IEA predicts shortages within 5 years
IEA’s Medium-term oil markets report (online)
Simmons:’Real risk’ gas pumps run dry this summer
Shell CEO says conservation isn’t enough
Housing & urban design – July 9
When building green ain’t so green
First zero emissions, zero waste city in Abu Dhabi
Urban chic: city growth can be ‘a force for good’
China's Environment – July 9
The man making the world’s worst polluter clean up its act
Warming strikes a note in China
China vs. Earth
Climate policy – July 9
A fair way to reduce carbon emissions
‘Carbon credit cards’ and ‘carbon market’ on agenda
Rep. Dingell floats carbon tax bill
Farmers fell trees in protest over land clearing laws
Renewables – July 9
Arab countries urge solar future
New battery packs powerful punch
Wavegen plant to be built in Spain
Geothermal Potential in the Gulf of Mexico
The IEA report and peak oil
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) influential Medium Term Oil Market Report comes close to saying that we are near peak oil, defined as “the world is running out of cheap oil.” Excerpts from Salon, the Telegraph, the online IEA report, an earlier interview with the IEA’s Fatih Birol, and other articles in the media.
Tar sands – July 8
Oil sands no quick fix as Big Oil leaves Venezuela
Black gold’s tarnish seen in Canada
Global warming threatens alternative-oil projects
Its Time For Albertans To Draw A Line In The (Tar) Sand
