Deep thought – May 14
Peak Oil or Climate Change: Which Is Most Urgent?
On American Sustainability – Anatomy of Societal Collapse
Global Citizenship- Opportunities for Change
Consumption & Demand
United States – May 13
Green ‘Czar’ Pushes Jobs, Community-Building (audio & text)
Obama’s Weird Idea of Auto Industry Rescue: Use Our Money to Build Car Factories Abroad
Buying Brand Obama
Kunstler: Decoupling From Reality
Getting America Off Oil: The Oil Solutions Initiative
The end of the Information Age
Prophets of an indefinite expansion of today’s “information society” too often forget that information doesn’t exist by itself; it requires a physical substrate, and if that goes away, so does the information. As the age of cheap energy comes to an end, relying on a substrate as energy-intensive as the internet may be a risky bet.
Peak oil review – May 11
A weekly review including:
– Production and Prices
– Venezuela
– EU Gas Deal
– The Message sinks in
Peak oil – May 11
Jeff Rubin’s new book on peak oil
Canada’s reckless carbon habit
Oil: No Supply Side Answer to the Coming Crisis
Peak resources – May 7
Report: The Interplay between Climate Change and Peak Oil
Blind Spot Trailer
Action on peak oil essential for business survival, say UK transport chiefs
Peak oil notes – May 7
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– The Bankruptcies
Review: Tar Sands by Andrew Nikiforuk
If you’ve been following energy news with a discerning eye, then you already know better than to buy into all the hype about the Canadian tar sands…Far from being a panacea for declining supplies of conventional oil, the sands could…leave Alberta resembling “a third-rate golf course in the Sudan”…The quote comes from Andrew Nikiforuk’s new book Tar Sands, a powerful, eloquent litany of horrors associated with North America’s frenzied dash toward tar sands bitumen.
Economics – May 4
Chinese subsidies boost rural consumption
It can be done but what is it we are doing?
Prosperity without Growth? – The transition to a sustainable economy
Peak oil review – May 4
A weekly peak oil review, including
-Production and prices
-Iraq
-Detroit
-Briefs
United States – May 1
Farewell, the American Century
Accused BLM Bid Monkey-Wrencher de Christopher Pleads Not Guilty
Recession Has Changed Lifestyles, Poll Shows
Rich people feel guilty buying luxury stuff in bad economy
ODAC Newsletter – 01 May 2009
A weekly review from a UK perspective
