Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Jeremy Leggett: Peakists predicted crisis
Oil analyst Maxwell: Shortages in 2010; PO 2012-2015
ASPO director to run for Congress
Corporations Uber Alles on peak oil
Peak oil: Will we see it coming?
Teacher gets ready for the end of oil
Kunstler lecture
Simmons slides
Next car debate: total miles driven
Ex-Shell chair: EU ‘should ban inefficient cars’
Danger in the bike lane
Polar bear arrest
No-hair-shirt solutions to global warming
Church advocates carbon fast for Lent
CEO: CO2 control leads to better business
Obesity becoming world crisis
The world’s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
Wilderness under threat as visitors stay indoors
The slow life picks up speed
Recycling to a fashion
Green can be inexpensive, with a little work
Motivated by a tax, Irish spurn plastic bags
Russian economy succumbs to the oil curse
‘Huge’ gas field found off Iran
A frail economy raises pressure on Iran’s rulers
Canada’s shifting sands
Geotimes on
oil around the world
Scientists isolate areas most at risk of climate change
Destruction of world’s forests speeding up
Review: The Changing Climate of South Texas, 1900 – 2100
Earth Under Fire, How Global Warming is Changing the World
The world appears poised for a headlong sprint toward greater dependence on coal. This book’s purpose is to examine one crucial question that will shape this next great coal rush: How much is left?
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– he Next OPEC Meeting
– Troubles in China Continue
– Energy Briefs
Coal prices are predicted to hit $300 per tonne this week, a threefold rise that eclipses even the most bullish forecasts made just a few days ago. Experts say there is still no ceiling in sight and predict further upward pressure on European power prices.
Is it not scary when so many people no longer know that potatoes grow underground? Can the nature-illiterate vote intelligently about food issues?
The discovery of the supergiant Prudhoe Bay field in 1967 ultimately led to Alaska becoming the top oil producing state in the U.S., at least for a while. The Prudhoe Bay field is the largest field ever discovered in the U.S. and Canada, and one of the twenty largest fields ever found globally. But even supergiant fields ultimately decline.
