Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Jerome Ă Paris The current “boiling frog” price increases (ie, slowly and without a big shock) are unlikely to lead to shortages or rationing in the short term, because that’s not where the problem is – the big problem is with respect to future supplies.
Among the most challenging dimensions of the crisis of industrial civilization is the task of preserving its immense cultural heritage into a future where today’s technologies of communication and information storage will likely no longer be available. The emergence of cultural conservers — individuals who make the preservation of some part of our cultural heritage a personal mission — offers one option for dealing with this challenge.
Brazil threatens to nationalize fertilizer mines
South America’s industrial-ag powerhouse eyes rainforest potash deposits
Forget Saudi peak oil – worry about Saudi peak grain
IMF “cure” for food crisis also a cause
Hunger prompting desperate acts
Where industry once hummed, urban garden finds success
Your friend, the kitchen
High gas prices drive farmer to switch to mules
Gene Logsdon: Garden and small farm skills – hoemanship
Oil price forces American Airlines to scrap 75 planes
American Airlines’ plan to save the planet
Airlines’ cuts making cities no-fly zones
American to charge for 1st checked bag, cut flights
FT: US begins to break foreign oil addiction
America must face the harsh realities over oil
Robert Bryce: Delusions of energy independence
Bush to Arab nations: You’re running out of oil
Russian energy chief urges gas export rethink
Saudi Arabia: The king versus the radicals
Jamais Cascio: How many Earths? (the real key to sustainability)
Chasing utopia, family imagines no possessions
Symbols can overshadow substance
Get ready to rethink what it means to be green
Oil rises on speculation Saudi supply increase won’t cut prices
UK’s Brown calls for end to the power of Opec
Not enough oil is lament of BP, Exxon
Peak oil for teenagers (talk)
Australia Pumping Empty: PO film coming
THE progressive crises: Global warming and peak oil
Financial Times: Fears over oil supply move into the mainstream (‘Are the peak oilists right?’)
Jeffrey Brown’s warning on oil producers’ own rising consumption gains Wall St backing
What the Export Land Model means for energy prices
Has peak oil as a meme “tipped”? (out of futures backwardation and into contango)
CNN on peak oil
With the oil price looking pretty settled above $126 a barrel, what does the UK Government estimate the future oil price to be? Clearly one would imagine that as the most responsible body in the land, charged with making long term decisions that affect us all, they would have their fingers on the pulse of this one. Unfortunately the official position is as insulting as it is pathetic.
