China – Feb 6
Drought threatens Chinese wheat crop
Darley: China Enters A New And ‘Interesting’ Phase
China to Construct 8 Strategic Oil Reserve Bases
Fossil Fuels
Confusion in the oil patch
A standard story is making the rounds which goes like this: low prices and lack of investment will impair future oil production capacity. When the global economy rebounds, which could happen as early as 2010, oil prices will shoot up again as demand once again outstrips available supply.
The power of community
Community” is often dismissed as a romantic notion, “harking back a golden age that never existed”. Traditional rural communities tended to be held together by the absence of choice: you were your mother’s daughter or your father’s son, and the range of possible futures – opportunities for travel, education, and employment- were limited.
ODAC Newsletter – Feb 6
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Peak Oil Notes – Feb 5
A mid-week update on peak oil, including:
– Prices and production
– Growing troubles in Asia
The peak oil crisis: leadership
Many voters clearly are beginning to sense there is some kind of unprecedented problem out there, even it is thought of as melting poles and reliance on foreign oil. While they may not understand all the forces that are at play, soaring unemployment, falling home values and collapsing equity markets are getting their attention.
Deep thought – Feb 4
The True 21st Century Begins
The globalisation of addiction
Unwinding Complexity and the Collapse of Societies
Peak oil: a symptom, not a cause
Rebuilding America – Feb 4
Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society?
Kunstler’s Road Trip
What Obama Must Do On the Road to Copenhagen
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 4
Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to a Scale
I Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Transition Was In: Part I
Traditions and trends in environmental Judaism
Deep thought – Feb 3
The Myth of the Efficient Car
Remaking America: The Ambiguities of Obama
Dangerous Oil
Peak oil and the global economy
An analysis of Peak Oil impacts indicates that there will be no economic recovery following the economic collapse of 2009 and that the recession will deteriorate into a permanent economic depression that will worsen over time.
Economics – Feb 2
The Oil Shock of the 1930s: Another Factor?
Reading the Tea Leaves
A New New Deal under Obama?
