Peak Oil Review – Sept 7
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-New discoveries
-Nationalism
-Briefs
Media & Communications
Interview with Bob Hirsch – The Stonewalling of Peak Oil
Robert L. Hirsch is the lead author of a seminal report–Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation & Risk Management—written for the US Dept. of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE, NETL) and released in early 2005. He has remained very active with respect to his concerns about peak oil. ASPO-USA’s Steve Andrews tracked him down last week and posed some questions about the report, then and now. Bob will be a presenter at the ASPO-USA conference in Denver next month (October 11-13).
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 4
-How on Earth Can We Feed 8 Billion People?
-Solar Power from Space: Moving Beyond Science Fiction
-Johnson announces awards for ‘low carbon zones’
-The Cruel Cost of Clunkers
-How to Grow Democracy
-Bike-o-rama: A Roundup of the Best in New Bikes, Bike Infrastructure, Blogs, Books and More
ODAC Newsletter – Sep 4
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
India and its agriculture: in peril? – Sept 4
-Climate Change, Drought and India’s Looming Food and Water Crisis
-Half India’s land degraded: agro-chemicals partly to blame
-Delhi trade talks face familiar foe as India’s farmers prepare to protest
Globalization – Sept 7
-UK lags behind as global economy emerges from recession
-UN: Rich countries will suffer unless they help poor on climate change
-‘Job not done’, Darling tells G20
-Doha Round: it’s important to have some clarity on a road map
Web & media – Sept 7
-The Price of Truth
-Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster
-Return To Asia
Nations & resources – Sept 3
-World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports
-Ukraine, Russia PMs resolve gas dispute: Tymoshenko
-As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms
-Iranian Media: Iran Ready to Negotiate
-Slow Boat to Rare Earth
-Peak Water
-Iowa’s future shouldn’t depend on fossil fuels
Economics – Sept 3
-Tickle your fancy
-Re-Appointed Fed Chief Ben Bernanke Didn’t Get Us Out of the Economic Crisis, He Helped Cause It
-Growing Poverty And Despair In America
-Peak Oil, Peak Credit and Investments – “So What the Hell Does One Do”?
Climate & environment – Sept 3
-German Scientists Call for ‘World Climate Bank’
-Let’s Just Rejigger the Globe To Cool It Off
-Global warming, California, and wildfires
-Prescott: cutting emissions by 80% will not be enough
“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire
This text describes the presentation that I gave at the “Peak Summit” in Alcatraz (Italy) on June 27, 2009… It is not a transcription, but something that I wrote from memory, mostly in a single stretch, while I had it still fresh in my mind. The result is that my 40 minutes talk became a text of more than 10,000 words, much longer than a typical internet document (but still less than Gibbon’s six volumes on the same subject!)
Real People, Real Preparation Part 4, with Sarah Edwards
From the STTP website: In the next few months, Truth to Power will be featuring interviews with individuals who are consciously transitioning to a post-carbon lifestyle…Everyone’s story of preparation is different; there is no one-size-fits-all model. This series of interviews with real people preparing for collapse will honor the uniqueness of those individuals and the methods of preparation that serve them in their particular situations.
