Peak oil – May 20
PO makes it into the LA Times (Kunstler interview) / New Blog at “From The Wilderness” / Global oil production: Has it peaked? (quotes CEI!) / What You Need to Know about Peak Oil (good primer)
Education
Environment – May 20
European energy groups manipulate carbon trading for profit / Carbon dioxide is good for you /
Climate change: when policy cycles are circumvented (why the grassroots are weak) / Thank you for emitting / Gore-backed group will spend big to convince Americans climate change is real / Communicating climate change (getting people scared doesn’t work)
How to pass a peak oil resolution
The most straightforward way to get your municipality engaged on responding to our energy predicament is a resolution. The resolution calls for peak oil to be considered a serious issue, a city wide assessment funded by the mayor to be undertaken, and the oil depletion protocol to be endorsed.
Peak oil – May 13
Peak Oil & the Environment conference – TOD’s wrap-up / New ASPO Newsletter for May / Bryn Davidson interview / Julian Darley on Democracy Now! / Peak Oil: The cavalry is not coming
Does nuclear power produce no CO2 ?
Fossil fuels, especially oil in the form of gasoline and diesel, are essential to every stage of the nuclear cycle, and CO2 is given off whenever these are used. (Photo essay)
Heat & light: UK energy and climate policy in context
This week the New Statesman has released a special supplement on energy. More than 20 articles on different aspects of the energy crisis are available free, online.
Peak oil – May 11
Video of Sustainable Energy Forum /
TOD on PO & Environment Conference (Day 2, Part 1) / Climate change and PO (a tale of two conferences) /
FTW and Alternet cover the Local Solutions conference /
Mauritius: Preparing for the end of the petroleum era /
AP: When are we likely to run out of oil?
Peak oil – May 9
Wash. Post cites Hirsch report, says Bush knows about PO / The Oil Drum reports on PO & Environment Conference / “When the Circuit Breaks: America’s Energy Crisis” – 1975 video /
Newsweek: will we hit $100? / Physicist-author David Goodstein on peak oil / Links, links, links from TOD and Gristmill
Peak oil – May 8
The Future for Petroleum – a prescient view from 1964 / The Oil Drum: Who has to conserve how much? / King Coal (and Mark Jaccard) / Atlanta after the end of oil / I’ve got a little list… of gas-price villains / Summary of Petro Collapse II conference
Science Magazine special on the energy crisis – 1974
More than 30 years ago the prestigious science journal Science published a special edition with 27 articles devoted to the energy crisis. One is struck by the high quality of the analysis, and how the same themes have re-emerged today. Articles are online in PDF.
Peak oil discomforts – losing hot water, computer, car, electricity…
My hot water heater recently sprang a leak. So I dumped it. Inconvenient, but not a big deal. But what will happen when breakdowns are not so repairable or replaceable?
Bi-partisan congressional leaders endorse PO conference May 7-9
Congressmen Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) and Tom Udall (D-NM) urged immediate action to reduce America’s dependence upon oil and address climate change while endorsing an upcoming conference sponsored by the University of Maryland, Sustainable Energy Forum 2006: Peak Oil and the Environment.”
