Peak oil – Oct 3
Heinberg: Bursting bubbles
Matt Simmons: Oil and gas — The next meltdown?
Companies scramble for ever-scarcer resources
Personal view of ASPO-USA – day 3
The recurring myth of peak oil
Complex issues in a world of soundbites
Media & Communications
Delay and Fail
Last week, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, Al Gore suggested that young people should engage in civil disobedience to stop the building of new coal power plants “that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.”
I sympathize with Gore’s intent. Coal is the most polluting of the fossil fuels, and if we burn more of it there is little hope of averting catastrophic climate change.
But is carbon capture and storage (CCS) a solution?
ASPO VII in Barcelona
The program for the upcoming VII Annual International ASPO Conference is now available.
Peak oil – Sept 29
Oil prices and the GCC: Could the region be stoking oil prices?
Roscoe Bartlett – one of Slate’s 80 “silver lions”
Steven Martinovich, Enter Stage Right
Deep Thought – Sept 29
The new sage of Wall Street: author of The Black Swan
Reinventing Reality (or Collapse Sandwich) – Orlov and Pinchbeck (podcast)
Portland Freedom Tribe 2010: from Palin to Paradise
Food & agriculture – Sept 26
Urban farmer’s work honored
UN to buy emergency food stocks from poorer farmers
Food Labels: Organic? Fair Trade? Certified Humane? What Does it All Mean?
Writers discuss covering the peak oil story, in Sacramento
If you had been able to attend the first afternoon of the ASPO-USA conference in Sacramento yesterday, you could have listened to six writers, most of them working as print journalists today, sharing their insights as to how members of the media cover the peak oil story.
United Kingdom – Sept 24
Mayor wants to close Heathrow
British public ‘unwilling’ to pay for climate change bill
It needn’t cost the earth
Persuasion – Sept 22
NY State Senator Klein to meet with No Impact Man about making NYC streets livable
A Speech for the Next President
Self-doubts paralyze activists
United States – Sept 20
Palin’s Petropolitics
Speth: Progressive Fusion
A crisis that could make the US election a cleaner contest
The evolution of peak oil coverage – a grassroots view
These are the slides and text for a presentation given at the ASPO-USA conference September 21-23.
In these ten minutes, I’d like to provide a context for the discussion. I’d like to paint a broadbrush picture of where we were, and where we are going. It will be from the viewpoint of someone inside the movement looking out.
From the grassroots, rather than from the media.
Peak oil – Sept 19
Nate Hagens: No naked short selling => No short selling at all => No future energy?
China, climate change and US dollars (and peak oil)
Cantarell – Mexico’s own double-whammy huracán
Librarian’s guide to peak oil
Controversal path to possible glut of natural gas
