China – Jan 9
China pushes ‘Green GDP’ – officials unsure
Confusion over energy (biofuels)
China’s coal future (part 2)
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Jan 8
Slick new Peak Oil Primer from ASPO-Spain
Heinberg: bridging peak oil and climate change activism
Kunstler: A wake-up call in the shadow of oil scarcity
Kunstler foreshadowed
Reason: political peak oil
Iran – Jan 7
U.S. puts squeeze on Iran’s oil fields
Iran oil exports could dwindle
Iranian petro crisis and US national security
Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran
Peak oil – Jan 7
Oil: fast-vanishing drug the world can’t live without
An almost friendly update on world oil
Scientific American and the silent lie
Bartlett to introduce PO and energy bills to Congress
Of leeches & midwives?
War, Iraq, oil – Jan 7
War and cheap oil: a second look
The new Middle East: close of the American era
Future of Iraq: The spoils of war
The Independent on the oil rush
How the West will profit from Iraq’s most precious commodity
Iraqi possible oil contracts (PSAs): some facts
New books – Jan 7
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon
How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics and Portfolios by Bill Paul
Diamonds In My Pocket by Amanda Kovattana
Coal – Jan 6
Senators Bunning, Obama push coal-to-liquids
China’s coal future
Slowing coal plants in Texas
My 2007 peak oil to do list
If we start now and do every day what we can do, we have a good chance of looking back in a few years and being pleasantly surprised that we made it – changed, for sure, but still here.
Profile: Energy Bulletin
Energy Bulletin, like the Post Carbon Institute and much of the broader peak oil movement, is based on a much more useful and accurate foundation than the assumptions underlying most corporate media and government planning discourses — who generally take as a given continuing growth in access to energy.
2006 top green tech ideas
In 2005, Americans woke up to the reality of peak oil. In 2006, we started seeing more attention to the two paths that can lead us forward:
energy efficiency and renewable energy. A number of good ideas have surfaced.
The peak oil crisis: 2006 in review
The returns are not in yet, but anecdotal evidence is accumulating that many parts of Africa, Central America, and Asia are starting to shut down. For these peoples, the oil age, such as it was, is already over.
Energy: That’s oil, folks…
The prominent journal Nature has a detailed report on peak oil and its skeptics. (Excerpts)
