Finance, Fossil Fuels, and Climate Change

By Mark Hudson, Katelyn Friesen, Transnational Institute

In order to understand power, we have to look not just to the fields of extraction and their ruined landscapes, nor only at the immediate effects on water, air, wildlife, and the nearby communities that rely on all three. We also have to look up and down the commodity chain. Attention is currently fixed downstream, at the politics and power manifesting in decisions about who and what is expendable in order to get the bitumen to market.

Vampire Finance Sucks the Lifeblood Out of the Economy

By Saskia Sassen, Red Pepper

We citizens have a lot of work to do. We delegated too much, we have assumed experts can do it and have ended up in an exploitative relationship. We need to develop our own expertise.

Iraq needs 1.3 mb/d additional oil exports and $US 70 oil to balance budget

By Matt Mushalik, Crude Oil Peak

If oil prices remain low Iraq will not get out of its current budget deficit. That will worsen all other problems this country is already suffering from.

One in Four Local Banks Has Vanished Since 2008. Why We Should Treat It as a National Crisis

By Stacy Mitchell, YES! magazine

Here’s a statistic that ought to alarm anyone interested in rebuilding local economies and redirecting the flow of capital away from Wall Street and toward more productive ends

A New Economy is Emerging

By Sandy Wiggins, Ben Roberts, Resilience.org

Sandy tells of localism, emergence, a new type of financial system, and more...

Community Energy in Ireland: The financial aspects

By Erik Jan van Oosten, Feasta

One of the key recommendations is the feed in tariff which is probably inspired by the successful German implementation of solar energy.

Energy & The Financial System Presentation

By Roger Boyd, Humanity's Test

The financial system as an accelerator and multiplier of the economic and social impacts of energy depletion.

Money System Mayhem?

By Justin Ritchie, Seth Moser-Katz, The Extraenvironmentalist

With Jim Rickards author of The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System, and behavioral economist Colin Camerer.

Central Banks’ Balance Sheets, Interest Rates and the Oil Price

By Rune Likvern, Fractional Flow

Money can be looked at as a marker for energy (alternatively; money is a claim on energy). As energy prices rise and/or energy supplies decline, this will depreciate the purchase value of money (and other paper constructs representing money).

What to Do While Waiting (for the Crash)

By Alex Smith, Richard Heinberg, Radio Ecoshock

Author Richard Heinberg on geopolitics, finance, and environment of the slow crash. Global Crossing and Green Festivals President Kevin Danaher on transition to green economy. Unicyclist for climate Joseph Boutelier.