Energy industry – Sept 20
Shell exec: Coherent energy policy needed
Oil industry flares $40 billion a year in gas
Chevron offers online energy game
Education
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 20
“What a Way to Go” – Meet the filmmakers
Kunstler novel coming next year
Peak oil, Transition Towns and resilience building.
“The 11th Hour” and Generation Z
Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary The 11th Hour is a valuable film and everyone who can get to a theater should go and see it. A more personal treatment of the same ground can be found in What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.
Exploring options, spotlight on “Earthwise”
Interview with Lisa McCrory and Carl Russell in rural Vermont who teach a variety of skills for sustainable living, including the use of draft animals in raising organic crops.
Sixth annual ASPO conference – Cork, Ireland Sept 17-18
On Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th of September, Cork, Ireland hosts the sixth annual international conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO).
ASPO-USA’s October conference: the peak of world oil production
ASPO-USA’s 3rd annual World Oil Conference will take place in Houston, Texas, on October 17-20, and consists of four days of high-level energy discussions on the peak and decline of global oil production.
Peak oil – Sept 12
Jeffrey J. Brown on The Reality Report
The end of oil, the start of tasty food (Julian Darley)
The amazing power of King Hubbert (…?)
TOD: This week in petroleum
Canada/financial energy round-up
ODAC News
Peak Oil Review – September 10th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Recession
– Energy Briefs
Global peak energy:
Implications for future human populations
The fact that the amount of energy available to human beings is subject to a limit—global peak energy—has profound implications for future human population levels and living standards.
The following analysis represents my initial attempt to understand the issue; the primary conclusions are unsettling, but clear.
- Based on publicly available data, global peak energy will probably occur between the years 2025 and 2030; total available energy will decline continuously thereafter.
- The maximum supportable worldwide human population level will peak between the years 2025 and 2030 as well, and decline continuously thereafter.
Using the media – Sept 10
Oil addiction is ugly (DIY video)
Get your green on in Energyville (game from Chevron)
Kunstler: The dis-information society
Review: Renewable energy cannot sustain a consumer society
Renewable sources of energy cannot come anywhere near to replacing fossil fuels in sufficient quantity to keep running the current globalised, capitalist industrial economy, according to Ted Trainer’s new book.
Can ecologists save the ecosphere?
Whenever ecologists gather, we might expect them to be screaming at the top of their lungs (or at least doing what passes for this in academic circles) about the imminent peril in which we humans find ourselves. But at a recent annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), those figurative screams could only be rated as somewhere between muffled and nonexistent.
