United Kingdom & Europe- Oct 6
Marrying energy demand and supply
Back to the Dark Ages: National Grid raises the spectre of blackouts this winter
Europe faces the challenges ahead
Consumption & Demand
ODAC Newsletter – Oct 3
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Peak Oil and Worldwide Economic Recession Soften Oil Prices: Lull Before the Storm
In the first half of 2008 we saw oil climb to approach $150 a barrel amid the pundits’ warning of oil rocketing to $200 a barrel and way beyond due to the phenomenon of Peak Oil. In the wake of those heady days we have now witnessed the slumping of oil prices to well under $100 a barrel into October.
So what is happening to cause the retreat of oil prices?
Peak Oil Notes – Oct 2
Mid-week update including:
– Waiting for Congress
– Shortages
How to create change In your community: finding or forming a local group
When we live locally and strengthen our communities, we become stronger and better able to adapt to changes in the economy, climate, and energy availability. But we discuss much about how to go about this. So… how do you create change in your community? And how do you form a group of people who can tackle these community needs?
Review: Depletion and Abundance by Sharon Astyk
Why are so few peak oil authors women? There’s been much debate about this, and no one has yet arrived at a definitive answer. But whatever the reason, Sharon Astyk has established herself as a true rarity within the peak oil community by virtue of being a woman who has chosen to write about peak oil. The perspective that she offers is thus both uncommon and vital.
Peeling the Onion: What’s Behind the Financial Mess?
If you want a pat answer to what has caused the financial crisis that is reverberating around the world, and now threatening the derivatives market, we’ve got one. Nearly everyone – in the mainstream media and outside it, tells the same story – that the crisis was caused by the unravelling of the housing market, particularly the US housing market. And if you ask what’s behind that, well, we’re told there was a bubble. And if you ask what was behind the bursting of the bubble, well…;it is turtles all the way down.
I’m going to suggest that if you peel off the layers of the financial crisis, we’re going to find some pretty basic things…
Peak oil – Sept 26
Of pipelines and the future
Here comes $500 oil – Matt Simmons in Fortune Magazine
Will the price of oil put a brake on globalisation?
United States – Sept 25
States, provinces have plan to cut emissions
Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants
Coal, a tough habit to kick
Deep Thought – Sept 25
Earth Democracy – notes on Vandana Shiva
The old future’s gone (audio)
Ordinary human poverty
Housing & urban design – Sept 24
The Conversation: How do we become less dependent?
Low-Income Housing: Another Crisis Looming?
Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 23
New system could help avert collapse of fisheries
Peak climate (audio) Part 1 is Dr. Peter Ward on past extinctions & violent climate change, Part 2 is Julian Darley, founder of the Post Carbon Institute, on how to live past the energy crisis
Isle of plenty
