United States – May 8
All of inflation’s little parts (fascinating graphic)
Senator: Drilling not answer to rising gas
Bio-preferred sustainability buying program
Staff
Population – May 8
C.I.A. chief lists population as a top concern
Population reduction, voluntary and otherwise
The Population Bomb revisited
More choice for women means more sustainability
Food & agriculture – May 8
Cost of food wreaking havoc on Central America
Burma cyclone fuels rice price increase
Catastrophe may leave Burma unable to feed itself
Romanian farmland prices set to triple
Liberalizing food trade to death
Urban farmers’ crops go from vacant lot to market
Recycling and waste – May 8
San Francisco committed to recycling, ready for more
A woman, a village and a war on plastic bags
Junkie nation: U.S. selling its scrap
Transport – May 8
Discovery of France – history trek by bike
Airline emissions ‘far higher than previous estimates’
Australia: Low-carb cars
Blood Car movie trailer
New UN agency to oversee transport emissions?
Peak oil – May 8
ASPO Newsletter for May
Irish peak oil documentary and its reception
Big oil strike in Brazil has tongues wagging, but we continue towards peak oil
Prices & supplies – May 8
Yergin: High oil prices spur alternative fuel shift
Greenland oil estimates over-reported
Analyst sees oil surging to $200
Harnessing sunlight on the cheap
MIT student project aims to develop cost-efficient solar power. For a project that could be on the very cutting edge of renewable energy, this one is actually decidedly low tech–and that’s the point.
Aus Deutschland
With several recent articles and TV pieces in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, ZDF (Second Public German TV network) and N-TV (private TV network), Peak Oil is now becoming established in mainstream German media.
Articles in German:
200 Dollar pro Barrel? Experte rät zur Abkehr
Russen-Alarm an der Öl-Front
“Peak Oil” – Wann geht uns der Saft aus?
Simone Boehringer interviews Matthew Simmons
Fatih Birol (IEA) interview: »Wir sollten das Öl verlassen, bevor es uns verlässt«
The peak oil crisis: transiting to transit
With crude oil now above $120 a barrel and threatening to go higher, it is clear that our preferred and convenient means of going places, our car, the airplane and the rental car soon are going to be parked because they will be too expensive to operate.
Preparing for which future?
As the age of cheap abundant energy comes to its end, making meaningful plans for the future depends on a vision of the future we can expect. Many of the supposed answers to the challenge of peak oil, however, have been proposed in response to many other crises, real and imaginary. How much of our thinking about the future is defined by the attempt to find plausible problems for culturally favored solutions to solve?
Counter-pander
Senate Democrats unveil a new energy bill based on the same false premises as the Republican bill.
