Energy industry – Oct 26
Oil sands projects slashed as credit crisis hits Alberta
The carbonate question
Some regret locking in price for oil
Big Oil’s last stand
Fossil Fuels
Dawn of the new energy order
T. Boone Pickens has challenged the U.S. presidential candidates to come up with a detailed energy plan. This speech offers them the outline of a response to that challenge…
Economics – Oct 26
Heinberg: A back-row seat at the collapse revue
Oil, house prices, credit? 3 parts of the same story
Oil prices – a little more of the story
Many world stock markets now off 50% or more from peaks
United States – Oct 26
John McCain could still win election by throwing a ‘green Hail Mary’
Bartlett election preview
Green energy likely winner, big oil loser in Senate races
Energy producers – Oct 25
OPEC announces big production cuts
Cuba’s claims of 20B barrels in offshore oil raise eyebrows
Iran’s president under pressure
Venezuela oil price tumbles, Chavez pressured
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 24
Sustainable San Francisco: special issue
Five great green TED talks
New Solutions newsletter
Lundberg continues campaign against petroleum dependency
Kentucky doctor says caring for Earth is not an option for Christians, it’s a responsibility
New tool for ‘green’ Christians: ecofriendly Bible
ODAC Newsletter – Oct 24
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Energy industry – Oct 24
OPEC president: Many oil projects hit by banks crisis
Oil companies take steady, careful approach to ’09
Shell goes for carbon sequestration
Geopolitics – Oct 24
Pakistan Stares Into the Abyss
3 Oil-Rich Countries Face a Reckoning
‘Axis of Diesel’ forced to change its ways by plummeting oil price
Chagos islanders lose battle to return
United States & Canada – Oct 24
Going Udall the way
New Energy Economy Emerging in the United States
Former EIA chief Hakes talks about road to energy independence, economic stability (video & transcript)
Geopolitical risk: derivatives markets without the upside
At the end of the day, while financial derivatives markets are a key component of our current financial mess, they are a truly powerful tool that can be used for great long-term good if regulated (with an understanding of long-term systemic risk issues) to ensure they are not abused for short term profit.
Spreading Manure over Astroturf: Why Ad Men Hate Brown
Sharon Astyk is one of those “loony tunes” who shows her concern for the planet by depriving her children of central heat and baseball, or at least that’s how she’s portrayed in the New York Times article by writer Joanne Kaufman.
This article is part of a new media genre that takes the serious worries of almost two-thirds of Americans, and creates a special brand of pathology designed to stigmatize, pathologize, trivialize, and marginalize their concerns. In some articles, they call such activism “eco-anxiety” and seek out therapists who “treat” the “disorder.” In this article, she’s coined a new name for the ‘disease,’ calling it “carborexia,” and apparently it is a disease that is spreading.
