Food & agriculture – August 5
Organic food becomes latest casualty of the credit crunch
The climate costs of a glass of milk
Congress takes another potshot at family farmers
Fossil Fuels
Peak caviar
Once, black caviar from the Caspian Sea was ubiquitous in Russia in its typical blue cans. Now, it has disappeared. “Peak Caviar” has taken place around 1980 in Russia. … “Peak Caviar” is another confirmation of how common the “Hubbert” behavior is. It doesn’t matter if a resource is theoretically renewable, as sturgeons and whales are. If sturgeons or whales are killed much faster than they can reproduce, then they behave as a non renewable resource; just as crude oil.
United States & Canada – August 4
Riches to Rags
Energy boom in West threatens Indian artifacts
The suicide solution
Housing & urban design – August 4
After the bubble, ghost towns across America
Vancouver needs to plan for a post-oil world — now
Changing the world one block at a time
Concrete Dragon, a Book Review (about China)
Transport – August 4
The problem with walk score, the possibilities of carbon goggles
Automakers race time as their cash runs low
Addiction: A million little miles per gallon
Consumer auto expert Reed: ‘panic in boardrooms’ of GM, Ford as it becomes clear electric cars ‘really coming’
Coal & Climate
Recent reports on global coal reserves, surveyed in previous chapters, generally point to the likelihood of supply limits appearing relatively soon—within the next two decades (a contrary view is represented solely by the BGR report [“Lignite and Hard Coal: Energy Suppliers for World Needs until the Year 2100 – An Outlook,” 2007]).
These two trends are surely destined to interact, and the uncertain result will shape climate and energy policy in the years to come.
Peak oil review – August 4
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Iran
– Nigeria
– China
– In the Congress
– Energy Briefs
Peak oil – Aug 3
David Holmgren and FutureScenarios.org
August ASPO Newsletter
The green gender gap (in peak oil)
Peak Football and waving goodbye to Ronaldo
Chronicle of Higher Education: Making the transition away from oil
Peak oil pundits perplexed by reality
Peak Oil and the financial markets: a forecast for 2008 (update)
Back in January, I made a financial forecast for 2008. In this post, I will update my analysis, looking both at what has happened thus far in 2008, and refining what is likely ahead.
Richard Heinberg a-blog
– Another tax rebate?
– Net energy: What everyone needs to know
– Oil price falls! Peak oil a non-problem!
Energy descent preparation – interview with Vermont peak oil educator Carl Etnier
What would make a private consultant with a solid, secure income quit his day job to teach people about Peak Oil?
Growing pains — climate and peak oil
It is entirely possible — some would say likely — that the United States, China, the EU, India, et. al. will lack the spirit of cooperation and political will necessary to reduce CO2 emissions to combat global warming.
