Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
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
– Another tax rebate?
– Net energy: What everyone needs to know
– Oil price falls! Peak oil a non-problem!
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.
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.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
What would make a private consultant with a solid, secure income quit his day job to teach people about Peak Oil?
The real question: should oil be cheap?
Spain to cut speed limit in bid to reduce oil imports
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the reactor revival is NOT ready for prime time
A mid-week update on peak oil, including:
-Production and prices
-The bombs of Nigeria
Barbara Ehrenreich has a wonderful essay on the way we’re turning on ourselves in response to the financial crisis – and how we should be turning our anger outwards. She’s right – and it isn’t just suicide. Depression, domestic violence, child abuse – all of these are on the rise, and in large part due to the fact that people are poorer, scared and frustrated. Ehrenreich writes of the move to respond to the financial bad news by destroying yourself that we’re aiming in the wrong direction:
On the radar screens of conventional economics, value created outside the market economy rarely makes a blip. This first part of a two-part series discusses the roles that the “invisible economy” of household production might play in a future of scarce and expensive energy.
Riders flock to T in record numbers
Oil shock: China’s cars, accelerating a global demand for fuel
Pedal power challenges car culture as cyclists seize Los Angeles freeways
