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
Fossil Fuels
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?
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 2
They’re young, they’re green, they’re militant: eco kids re-educating their parents
Life after the apocalypse
New book: “Ten Things Everyone Ought to Know”
Peak Oil Review – Feb 2
A weekly review, including:
– Production and Prices
– Obama’s stimulus
– Venezuela
– Briefs
Energy industry – Feb 2
Natural Gas Glut Could Hit US
Oil Sector Braces For Wider Fallout Of Low Crude Price
Oil players stockpile cheap crude on tankers
Endangered Electricity System: The Potential of Microgrids
Peak oil, the web of debt, & our local future
A new set of high definition videos are now online: Richard Heinberg on peak oil, Thaddeus Owen on permaculture, Ellen Brown on financial collapse, Tim Husdon on the four futures, and Kim Hill on the auto industry crisis, and more.
Lightering our way to abundance
One promising sign of a bottom to oil prices is the move by oil companies and Wall Street firms to secure tankers in which to store oil in order to play the contango in the oil market. By leasing a tanker and filling it with oil purchased at the current low price while simultaneously selling it on the futures market for delivery later this year at a significantly higher price, they can generate considerable profit–enough to pay for the costs of storage on the high seas and take home handsome paychecks to boot.
Reality Report: Natural Gas Cliff and Credit Situation
In this edition of The Reality Report host Jason Bradford interviews Nate Hagens. Topics in this program highlight how the current financial melt down and impact the timing and severity of peak oil and natural gas–including the dreaded “natural gas cliff” as rigs go idle due to low prices. We discuss whether this means economic growth now over, and if so, how should societies adjust?
