Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“Escape” comes from the director who in 2004 brought us “The End of Suburbia”, which has likely been seen at least once by every card-carrying Peak Oilist. Instead of focusing on the dire situation, “Escape” focuses on possible courses of action.
Tim Flannery: we have to stop our emissions
Thomas Homer-Dixon: A swiftly melting planet
Climate activists tipped for Peace prize
Climate change disaster is upon us, warns UN
Official says US will regulate carbon
Indonesia aims to plant 79 million trees
Forget your silver bullet (unconventional fuels)
Lawmakers to Pentagon: Plan for climate change
Big Coal tries to recruit military to kindle a market
Air Force pursuing CTL fuel plant
Alarm bells ring about North Sea output
Tories call for new industrial revolution to tackle climate change
Britain near bottom for energy efficiency
World’s largest offshore wind farm approved for Kent
Poverty of vision
China offers surprise hope in climate fight
Tourist industry pledges climate-friendly future
Oil-rich Norway must play bigger climate role
“Stop Climate Chaos” group galvanizes UK
Using game theory to analyze future of international treaties
Burma: It’s the oil and gas, stupid
Amy Goodman: Chevron’s pipeline is the Burmese regime’s lifeline
The hardship that sparked Burma’s unrest
Costly fuel is never far from a match
Oil versus monks
Global hypocrisy on Burma
Change in oil dollar denomination unlikely – oil companies
Air Force energy initiatives focus on fuel
DOW chairman: Strength needs energy
3-vol report on strategic unconventional fuels
Whatever happened to sharing the pie of prosperity?
Tourism set to suffer from the climate change it generates: UN
Campbell’s climate change plans for BC
Climate change top issue, Canadian CEOs declare
Human behavior, global warming, and the ubiquitous plastic bag
Japan trades in suits, cuts carbon emissions
Rapier reviews Patzek’s paper on long-range energy strategies (biofuels and demand reduction)
Going solar in Japan
Power harnessed one step at a time (floors that generate electricity)
We have had plenty of warnings about the consequences of an early peak in global oil production, but no one in Westminster seems to be listening.
Bush outlines proposal on climate change
Europeans angry after Bush climate speech ‘charade’
Real story behind the Bush’s climate claims
Pew’s Claussen says U.S. “out of step”
Bush pushes climate action into future
Report on the ASPO 06 Conference in Cork, Ireland. Speakers at the September conference indicate that we may have reached the psychological tipping point – when Peak Oil enters the general consciousness.
