Peak oil – Apr 13
Skrebowski on the race against peak oil
Alternate Reality Game: Surviving a World Without Oil
About “World Without Oil”
Time to face reality of finite oil supply
Education
Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America
Biofuels are not sustainable or renewable. Why would we destroy our topsoil, increase global warming, deplete and pollute groundwater, destroy fisheries, and use more energy than what’s gained to make ethanol?
(Detailed analysis)
Getting the word out – Apr 12
1,000+ climate rallies planned this weekend
This April … Red + Blue go green
WorldChanging interviews McKibben
What’s so funny? (profile of Grist)
Peak Oil – Apr 11
Kunstler – Spring Break
Now You See It… Now You Don’t
Radio Free America this weekend
ASPO-USA’s “Peak Oil Review” now posted online
The Design Imperative
Our quality of life, both collectively and individually, is more dependent on how we use our energy than on how much of it we use. We can better influence our quality of life through improving technics than through increasing energy.
Peak oil – Apr 7
A top Saudi bank expects fall in oil production
Shell, Total chief execs say ‘easy oil’ is gone
Carrboro (NC) gets it about PO
Book review of Peak Oil Prep
New documentary: Energy Crossroads
Peak oil – Apr 4
Peak oil at conference of American Assn of Petroleum Geologists
Heinberg interviewed on Iran and on peak coal
ASPO-USA site to be reinvigorated
Intentional community pioneer Albert Bates on surviving peak oil
Bates’s new book delivers a concise summary of the problems of peak oil and climate change followed by chapter after chapter of ideas to prepare yourself and your family to live more self-sufficiently… I have not yet tried his recipe for grasshopper quesadillas.
What are our alternatives, if fossil fuels are a problem?
Answers questions like “I love my SUV. Why can’t we continue to use oil and gas as in the past?” and “Won’t ethanol cover our fossil fuel shortfall?”. Good educational material.
Bartlett elaborates on GAO peak oil report
Address to U.S. House of Representatives, giving background on peak oil and concluding: “with proper leadership, I think that Americans could be exhilarated by the challenge.”
Wakey! Wakey! UK peak energy tour
A coalition of local organisations around Britain, with a common interest in “peak energy”, are launching a series of events around the UK to highlight the issue of the peak and subsequent depletion of UK and global energy supplies.
Associated Press picks up on peak oil
The Associated Press (AP) has just put out a story on the peak oil report released today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The story will be published by dozens or hundreds of newspapers and news sites.
