Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Oil Demand Has Peaked in Developed Nations, Never to Return — Report
-Why Oil Is Much More Plentiful Than “Peak Oil” Advocates Claim
-Russia 2010 oil output to fall -Bernstein analysts
-Crude Oil Jumps Above $75 to One-Year High on Demand Optimism
During the past twelve months, it has been reassuring to see vast numbers of individuals in the United States awaken to the reality that life on this planet has profoundly shifted and will never be the same. Many have radically altered their career goals, spending and saving patterns, and their long-term priorities. When I witness such changes in human behavior, I am encouraged, and I become cautiously optimistic about our ability to read the signals and respond wisely.
I’m happy to have the opportunity to spend the next few minutes sharing some personal thoughts on the subjects that bring us together for this excellent event—thoughts based on my experience, during the past few years, of trying to get the message of Peak Oil out to an ever-wider audience.
-A Timely Reminder of the Real Limits to Growth
-Liberal Education, Stewardship, and the Cosmopolitan Temptation
-Decline of a tribe: and then there were five
-Last Call at Descartes’ Bar and Grill
-The Vindication of a Public Scholar
-No Country for Old Jobs: 10 Charts Showing the Fragile Recovery. Home Sales, Buying versus Renting, Unemployment, and Real Economy Data
-Ostrom first woman to win Nobel Prize for Economics
-Reinventing the firm
-Quarterly Review and Outlook – Third Quarter 2009
-The Sound of One Hand Clapping – What Deflationists May Be Missing
-Recession Is Over; Depression Has Just Begun
-Transforming Clean-Energy Industry Into a Local One
-National Grid plan for local waste-to-biogas plants
-Saving energy may generate billions, study says
-Permaculture Principles: Nature’s Design for our Living World
-Dan Douglas’ European vision for our capital city
-Investigating The Potential For The Expansion Of Urban Agriculture In The City Of Edinburgh
At the end of the first day of the ASPO conference in Denver, we were treated to a fantastic presentation on the oil potential of the sub-salt basins on the margins of the South Atlantic Ocean given by Dr Marcio Mello who presented the evidence for a half trillion barrels of reserves in this new frontier province. So has a new Saudi Arabia been found?
-World’s airlines pledge to cut emissions by 2050
-Cars must be electric, says climate tsar
-Climate Change: Four Degrees of Devastation
It’s been a fascinating few days. Early in the week, Nate Hagens and Sharon Astyk were suggesting that perhaps the term ‘peak oil’ has outlived its usefulness, given that we have almost certainly peaked, and that the peak oil movement needs to shift its focus. It echoed something I wrote a while ago, likening ASPO and the wider peak oil movement to a Loch Ness Monster Society, dedicated to establishing the existence of this fabled creature. They organise conferences, scientific searches of the loch, write papers and journals, and then one day, an entire, intact Loch Ness Monster washes up on the shore. Then what? They have no reason to exist any longer, their whole raison d’etre vanishes overnight.
-Dollar exit for oil trade?
-A financial revolution with profound political implications
-Maverick economist says markets will lead us to be greener
-Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is “call to action”
-Afghan War Debate Now Leans to Focus on Al Qaeda
-Mike’s Blog #1: ‘Pilots on Food Stamps’
-The Economic Revolution Is Already Happening — It’s Just Not on Wall St.
-There’s no there there
-Interview with Marcy Kaptur and Simon Johnson
