Peak oil notes – Mar 26
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Venezuela
Fossil Fuels
Where we are headed: Peak oil and the financial crisis
Nearly all of the economic analyses we see today have as their basic premise a view that the current financial crisis is a temporary aberration. We will have a V or U shaped recovery, especially if enough stimulus is applied, and the economy will soon be back to Business as Usual.
Peak oil & supplies – Mar 25
Big new report from McKinsey: “Averting the next energy crisis: The demand challenge”
The Next Five Years–Peak Lite and the Current Oil Picture
Natural Gas, Suddenly Abundant, Is Cheaper
Deep thought – Mar 24
Perfect storm of environmental and economic collapse closer than you think
Social effects of inequality have profound implications
The Three Bears & The Great Transition
Dr Robert Costanza on ecological economics
The Next Ten Years: What it Will Look Like
United Kingdom – Mar 23
Britain set to become most populous country in EU
Food and energy shortages will create ‘perfect storm’, says Prof John Beddington
Government borrowing ‘to swell’
Peak oil & supplies – March 22
Russia to cut oil exports, raise domestic consumption – Sechin
Saudi warns of ‘catastrophic’ energy crunch
Mass. conference on health care and peak oil (April 14)
ODAC Newsletter – 20 Mar
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
United States & Canada – Mar 20
Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden
Obama Tries to Draw Up an Inclusive Energy Plan
A New Washington Team and a Fresh Game in Russia, Iran and the Caspian
Energy limits to growth: integrating energy sources – part III
This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of “Energy Limits to Growth,” a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.
Steven Chu’s energy miscalculations
I want to bring up some urgent concerns about the direction the Obama administration is taking regarding America’s oil dependence. We need to ask What’s the plan? Once we understand the strategy, we can then ask Is the plan good, is it realistic?
Energy industries – Mar 19
Exxon vs. Obama
Shell dumps wind, solar and hydro power in favour of biofuels
Crude truth behind numbers that govern our lives
Free download of tar sands book
Review: Future Scenarios by David Holmgren
This new book by the co-originator of permaculture offers fascinating and fertile challenges for engaging Peak Oil and climate change. It confronts us with the question that will not die: Will our journey to a post-petroleum world be a transition or a trauma? The longer we wait to make the profoundly radical choices necessary at this juncture of history, the greater the certainty that choices we would not prefer will be made for us.
