Water – Sept 12
Huge increase in spending on water urged to avert global catastrophe
Shrinking water supplies and growing energy demands
California revives program to buy water from farmers
Consumption & Demand
ODAC Newsletter – Sept 12
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Peak Oil Notes – September 11
A mid week update including:
– Hurricanes, OPEC and prices
– IEA’s Monthly Oil Report
Peak Oil & Supplies – September 9
Heinberg: Is peak oil “A Misleading Concept?”
Focus on climate change and ignore peak oil? Not good enough.
Rough seas
Geopolitical disruptions #2: Identifying the feedback loops
Sounding like ‘Peak Oil’ advocate, Toyota warns world faces ‘Supply Shortages and Resource Exhaustion’
Peak Oil & Supplies – September 8
Oil crisis hiding in plain sight; pump prices and crude still way ahead of year ago levels
Charlie Maxwell to Barron’s: $300 oil is inevitable
An urban legend to comfort America: demand for oil creates new supply
Soros: The perilous price of oil
Deep Thought – September 8
CSIRO paper: A comparison of the Limits to Growth with Thirty Years of Reality
Is California on the brink of environmental collapse?
The machine in our heads
Solutions & sustainability – September 8
Love, Schmove – Just tell me how to build community with the guy who mows his lawn in his speedo!
Oil prices, technology, and the cost of ignorance
Meet the greenshifters
It never hurts to be prepared for Armageddon: Be to go-to gal
Is it better to lease, hire or borrow than to buy?
Climate & environment – September 8
Warming oceans make strongest storms stronger: study
Wind of change on farms as cows help to save the Earth
UN says eat less meat to curb global warming
Electronic smog ‘is disrupting nature on a massive scale’
Mining Oil From WWII shipwrecks
Peak Oil Review – September 8
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The OPEC Meeting
– Iraq
– Russia and the West
– Briefs
United Kingdom – September 8
Brown vows freedom from oil dictatorship
How food waste can power your home
When the wind doesn’t blow
Environment Minister Sammy Wilson: climate change views are “hysterical psuedo-religion”
Food & agriculture – Sept 5
Slow Food at full speed: they ate it up
Eric Schlosser: Slow Food for thought
Univ. of Calif.: Causes and consequences of the food price crisis
Meet the urban sharecroppers
Peak Textiles – Sept 5
The new black (oil influences fashion)
Cheap clothes, clean conscience
Power cuts hits textile industry
