Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Julian Darley If we were willing – and in some cases able – to pay more for food, then some serious problems with our food system might be solved. The trouble is that along the path towards a better, more sustainable farming and energy system, there will be many casualties
David Strahan: Have we reached the end of the road for oil?
Rising need of crude in energy rich nations
Heinberg on Al Jazeera TV
CIBC’s Ben Tal sees $200 oil
Energy: It’s still cheap (Matt Simmons. interview)
New House bill combines drilling with tax extensions for renewables
Drill, drill, drill is working
Paul Krugman: Know-nothing politics
Kunstler: Drill drill drill !!! (or maybe not)
Rising gasoline costs – an animation
Book review Climate Code Red – Climate Code Red, by David Spratt and Philip Sutton, Scribe Publications 2008
Georgia and Russia nearing all-out war
Georgia: oil, neocons, cold war and our credibility
Energy pipeline that supplies West threatened by war Georgia conflict
A lesson on the United States’ need for Russia
Although it is not yet palpable or palatable, it is logical and an empirical fact that rising energy prices equally threaten the health sciences. The vast majority of health professionals with whom this author has spoken classify high energy costs as troublesome but temporary, as well as outside the boundary of the health professions. A review of the literature shows virtually no research has been conducted on energy strategy and the health sciences – or the role of petroleum-based products – for three decades.
Beyond the semi-glib answer that nothing much has in fact happened in the oil markets in the past month (after all, the recent decline is quite smaller, in percentage terms, than several others in the past couple of years), here are a few points worth making.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Surviving the Apocalypse, on two wheels (Canadian thief hoards 2800 bikes)
Peak oil adds fuel to Swiss energy debate
Why the blackout on peak oil?
Simply not enough oil and gas to go around
‘Peak metal’ problems loom, warns scientist
Changing Lanes(McCain and energy policy
Candidates’ energy plans analyzed (audio)
The true meaning of energy independence (video)
Paris for President?
Great leadership in the face of a cynical power structure
Local gardeners do their part to record possible ‘global weirding’
Climate-change program to aid poor nations is shut
Environment: Intense rainfall due to global warming could raise flood risk
EPA rejects Perry plea on ethanol
Experts clash over viability of biofuels, alternative energy
Burgers or biofuel?
