Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff -For first time in years, the world is producing more oil than it needs
-Bill Reinert Describes What the Future of Energy Looks Like to his University of Colorado Audience
-The Saudi Oil Problem
-Citi’s Ed Morse Has A Huge Note Blasting Everyone Who Believes In Peak Oil
-The Oil Bubble Is Popping, But Will It Pop Down To $67?
-Aggregate factors in the price of oil
The Euro appears to be a marriage of incompatible partners. A June 1st article in the UK Telegraph titled “Why Europe’s Love Affair with the European Project Is Ending” reported that two-thirds of 9,000 respondents thought that having the euro as their single currency was a mistake.
For Greece, it was a tragic mismatch from the beginning; and like many a breakup, it is really about money.
After Part One, this is Part Two of my thoughts on some of the energy related themes of this ASPO conference and where we find ourselves now.
No matter how deeply tinted your rose glasses are the world economy does not look good right now and almost every indicator points to it getting much worse. Brace yourself.
-Shale energy triggers bean rush in India
-Halliburton blames guar bean shortage for profit warning
-Shale Gas: Fracking great
-Lawmakers air frustration over federal attention to shale
-China’s shale future: not as bright as promised?
-Gas rebranded as green energy by EU
-Eating the Seed Corn? Consumption in the American Economy Since 1929
-The Pernicious Dynamics of Debt, Deleveraging, and Deflation
-Aggregate factors in the price of oil
-Keiser Report: Paper Money Collapse
A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, on developments this week
Growing food inspires all sorts of people and can really capture the imagination. At the Premier Inn site which has been going since last year, it’s rewarding to see how building the garden has deepened friendships, formed new ones and how the combination of Transition and food creates beneficial relationships on so many levels. And all in the corner of a hotel car park! Now we have the Royal Free Permaculture Garden above the hospital car park. It’s much bigger and feels more daring.
A few years ago it seemed quixotic to declare city streets as commons belonging to all of us. Cars were the undisputed Kings of the Road. But things are now changing in many places around the U.S. with the rise of Green Lanes — bicycles lanes physically separated from rushing traffic, which makes people feel more safe and secure pedaling around town. Pedestrians and motorists also benefit from this transportation transformation, as bicyclists no longer ride on the sidewalk or take up lanes meant for motor vehicles.
Philosophers like to argue about whether humans have “free will,” that is the ability to make choices that can at times go against the instincts that rule the rest of the natural world. I think potatoes have free will. They may cooperate with the horticultural rules of conduct most of the time, but don’t depend on it. If they decide to grow where no potato has grown before, they by heaven will do it. You can make for them the loveliest bed of organic soil that J.I. Rodale ever dreamed of, and they will repay your efforts by rolling over and rotting instead of sprouting.
Greenpa asked me to talk about how we cook in the summer, and that’s a very good subject to talk about — what does a woman who “dances with wood” and cooks on a wood cookstove all winter long do in the summer?
Charles Hall discuss EROEI at the recent International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas.
