Food & agriculture – Oct 23
The farmer’s daughter has spiky black hair, 4-inch heels and rock-star dreams
Urban foraging and guerrilla gardening
Food supply and energy: What is the role of oil price?
Education
The admiral’s warning
In a 1957 speech, before a gathering of physicians, Adm. Rickover raised the specter that easily accessible and economically reasonable supplies of fossil fuels would be in jeopardy … just about now.
Energy policy – Oct 16
Britain to claim more than 1m sq km of Antarctica
Vaitheeswaran: An energy call to arms
Brookings’ Sandalow: plan to end U.S. oil addiction
Peak Oil Review – October 8th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The CIBC Exports Study
– Iran
– The Ethanol Boom
– Energy Briefs
Energy analysis – Oct 6
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists special: Getting power to the people
Review: Zoom
Innovation cheaper than oil
Stupid to the Last Drop: It’s not just Alberta, it’s the whole country
Peak oil – Oct 6
New ASPO newsletter for October
Peak oil in the media
Radio interview with Jan Lundberg
Charles Hall: Peak oil in 90 minutes
Where peak oil is wrong
Peak oil: Alternatives, renewables and impacts
Media & persuasion – Oct 5
New ‘positive change’ magazines thrive
Scott Adams (“Dilbert”): So you think you have an energy policy
Noam Chomsky on changes in the media
The holiness of Stuart Staniford
Ruminations about Stuart Staniford’s work at The Oil Drum from a Christian perspective, why he exhibits some religious virtues and why the doomer perspective does not.
Peak oil – Oct 3
David Strahan: Oil execs warming to peak oil
Oil crunch: the other monster under our bed
Randy Udall stepping down as CORE director
Peak oil 2005? 2007? 2010? 2012? Who the heck cares?
Film reviews:
Crude awakening
ODAC news
ASPO-USA’s conference will discuss peak oil
Background on ASPO-USA and its conference in October.
Peak oil – Sept 23
FSN: Richard Heinberg interview
Matt Simons: Meeting the challenge
In praise of ASPO 6
ASPO conference – final afternoon
$100 oil anyone?
The button to hit is ‘Start,’ not ‘Panic’
Agriculture in a post-oil economy
Agriculture in the future will be largely a “family affair”: without motorized vehicles, food will have to be produced not far from where it was consumed. But what crops should be grown? How much land would be needed? Where could people be supported by such methods of agriculture?
