Peak oil review – May 4
A weekly peak oil review, including
-Production and prices
-Iraq
-Detroit
-Briefs
Fossil Fuels
Energy industry – May 3
Exxon has biggest profit drop in 5 years as oil falls
Royal Dutch Shell’s profits fall 58pc on oil price slide
Could energy innovation create a ‘green bubble’?
Peak oil and mass communication
The most important task of the entity charged with coordinating and executing any mass communication strategy will be to boil down the peak oil message into a few slogans and visual illustrations. That won’t be easy. And, once that’s done, having the discipline to repeat those slogans and spread those illustrations often and everywhere will be even harder. But with what’s at stake, the peak oil movement must find that discipline or continue to limp along on the edges of the mainstream media and public consciousness.
ODAC Newsletter – 01 May 2009
A weekly review from a UK perspective
“Peak Oil” or “Limits to Growth”
There is a good deal of evidence that we are now a little past “peak oil”. Many of us find it doesn’t feel quite like we had imagined.
Peak oil & supplies – Apr 30
World oil demand to fall far more than thought
Oil and the lucky country
Book Review: Oil 101
Water & environment – Apr 30
Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling
Oregon’s water issues run deep
Water Controversies Boil Over in California
Climate & environment – Apr 30
‘Safe’ climate means ‘no to coal’
Monbiot: The media laps up fake controversy over climate change
Climate chaos predicted by CO2 study
Peak Oil Notes – Apr 30
A mid-week review, including
-Prices and production
-Investment
From fame to shame: The coming crisis of unecological economics
Contemporary economics refuses to absorb ecological reality. Its pandering to techno-economic invincibility and the holy fires of greed renders it increasingly deficient.
Food & agriculture – Apr 30
Emilia Hazelip video: Synergistic Garden
MoJo Forum: Is Organic and Local So 2008?
The great wealthy nation land-grab
An economics addition to The Transition Handbook
Since the first edition of the Transition Handbook was published, huge and far-reaching changes have begun unfolding in the world economy. For many, they are seen as the outcome of the end of the age of cheap oil … What are the assumptions we have made thus far about the economy. Do they still hold after the events of recent months? Did they ever actually make sense in the first place?
