Transport – Sept 29
Vancouver’s long commuters face problems of peak oil
The Jet Set
High flyers: Civilians fly fighter jets. (video)
New World Order
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil in the New South Wales parliament
“New South Wales and Sydney’s over-reliance on petrol makes us extremely vulnerable to impacts [of peak oil], and we must protect current and future generations.”
ODAC Newsletter – Sept 26
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Peeling the Onion: What’s Behind the Financial Mess?
If you want a pat answer to what has caused the financial crisis that is reverberating around the world, and now threatening the derivatives market, we’ve got one. Nearly everyone – in the mainstream media and outside it, tells the same story – that the crisis was caused by the unravelling of the housing market, particularly the US housing market. And if you ask what’s behind that, well, we’re told there was a bubble. And if you ask what was behind the bursting of the bubble, well…;it is turtles all the way down.
I’m going to suggest that if you peel off the layers of the financial crisis, we’re going to find some pretty basic things…
Geopolitics – Sept 26
Moscow strengthens presence in U.S.’ backyard
US generals planning for resource wars
Pakistan’s Zardari Tries to Keep His Distance from US
Peak oil – Sept 26
Of pipelines and the future
Here comes $500 oil – Matt Simmons in Fortune Magazine
Will the price of oil put a brake on globalisation?
United States – Sept 25
States, provinces have plan to cut emissions
Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants
Coal, a tough habit to kick
Deep Thought – Sept 25
Earth Democracy – notes on Vandana Shiva
The old future’s gone (audio)
Ordinary human poverty
Crisis of Confidence
Be it be peak oil, climate change, cigarettes, coal, the state of the economy or the latest toothpaste, we are constantly being lied to.
I can imagine the offices of Wall Street ringing with the song “Happy Days Are Here Again”. Sometimes, the most dangerous lies are the lies we tell ourselves.
Coal – Sept 24
Africa’s hard black gold
Labour conference: John Hutton criticised for comments on coal fired power stations
Obama declares support for ‘clean’ coal
Housing & urban design – Sept 24
The Conversation: How do we become less dependent?
Low-Income Housing: Another Crisis Looming?
Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch
Writers discuss covering the peak oil story, in Sacramento
If you had been able to attend the first afternoon of the ASPO-USA conference in Sacramento yesterday, you could have listened to six writers, most of them working as print journalists today, sharing their insights as to how members of the media cover the peak oil story.
