Neocons driving Priuses
The prospect of peak oil has shaken some of the mainstays of the conservative establishment into doing something about America’s energy crises.
Energy Policy
Let them freeze in the dark
Every time conservationists have criticized the energy industries for the pollution and climate destruction it takes to pull oil, coal, gas and uranium out of the ground and turn it into energy, the retort is always the same: “You eco-freaks want everybody to freeze in the dark!”
Solutions and sustainability – Nov 10
The Shakers – a model of sustainability /
Marx’s vision of sustainable human development /
China: renewable energy investment at record high /
New turbine design may boost wind energy /
California city struggles to become nation’s solar leader /
Proselytizer for pedaling /
Shell Solar tops efficiency record for thin film PV modules
Britain facing large energy gap
Britain is facing a shortfall in energy supply in the near future, according to a major report being launched today.
Running on empty at Rimini
How a bid to defuse the coming global peak-oil crisis was recently sidelined at a peak oil conference in Rimini, Italy.
Peak oil at San Francisco’s Green Festival
“The world’s biggest sustainability event,” the marquee outside the Nov. 5-6 Green Festival (GF) announced. Peak Oil and energy descent were among the main topics addressed by the speakers.
Peak oil headlines – Nov 9
Mother Jones: we’re over a barrel /
Christian Science Monitor:
How soon will world’s oil supplies peak? /
Denver PO conference /
There’s still lots of oil — at a price: IEA /
Oil and gas industries are running ‘flat out’ /
IEA: Mideast oil nations must up spare capacity /
UAE: Global output ‘sufficient till 2006’
Natural gas dilemma in Ukraine
The gas addiction of the Ukrainian economy hinders its efforts to become a competitive economy and assert energy independence.
How we can learn to stop worrying and love high oil prices
If there is a glimmer of light in this petroleum gloom, it’s the potential for high oil prices to spur individual and collective initiatives to reduce the nation’s immense thirst for oil.
Peak oil headlines – Nov 6
Bill McKibben seeks a friendlier option for the post-peak future /
Coming to grips with the end of cheap energy /
PO activism in Minneapolis /
Vermont independence convention /
Tom Whipple on importing energy after PO /
French environment minister publishes PO book /
La vie après le pétrole /
Dry Dipstick launches “Beyond Peak” website /
What Shell and BP say about energy supply /
The empty promise of technology /
PO group in Virginia /
Prof. Albert Bartlett on PO
Wall Street Journal advice on global warming – a perspective from Hawai'i
Instead of trying to help its readers understand the causes of the global warming that may devastate the islands and even continents, the WSJ seeks merely to guide its readers to the best of the worsening islands. Such a short-sighted attitude of merely using, rather than preserving, the Earth’s bountiful gifts advances global warming
Peak freaks: a report on three PO gatherings
Chatting with Komanoff I quickly realized that these were the kinds of pragmatic but forward-thinking conversations and policy ideas that were missing from both conferences. Both conferences seemed intent on paralyzing their audiences into inaction by suggesting that all they could really do is wait. Wait for the Petrocollapse or wait for Amory Lovins’ 66 mpg SUV’s.
