Michigan peak oil conference begins today
The conference begins with an introduction by U.S. Congressional Peak Oil Caucus member Vern Ehlers and a keynote by Dr. David Goodstein, author of Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil.
Media & Communications
Oil industry – May 29
Exxon to cut funding to climate change denial groups
Exxon’s Texas-size war chest
For Big Oil, does the future look too much like the past?
Above ground factors: The propaganda tool of choice
Stating that above-ground factors are limiting oil supply is not merely an observation. Rather, it is part of a propaganda strategy supporting a policy agenda which almost certainly reflects the views of CERA’s clients, many of whom are major oil producers.
Peak oil notes
Late-breaking developments:
– Prices
– The International Energy Agency
Oil the news oil the time
It is going to become increasingly hard to avoid energy headlines in general, as the topic finally becomes, as some of us have predicted for a while, the defining one of our epoch.
Gasoline, oil prices focus of Michigan sustainability conference
“A good place to learn about peak oil, energy conservation, energy efficiency, global warming—get it all in one spot.” (U.S. Rep. Vern Ehlers) The conference is scheduled for Friday, May 30, through Sunday, June 1 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Chasing solutions – May 20
Jamais Cascio: How many Earths? (the real key to sustainability)
Chasing utopia, family imagines no possessions
Symbols can overshadow substance
Get ready to rethink what it means to be green
Peak oil movement – May 20
Peak oil for teenagers (talk)
Australia Pumping Empty: PO film coming
THE progressive crises: Global warming and peak oil
Peak oil – May 20
Financial Times: Fears over oil supply move into the mainstream (‘Are the peak oilists right?’)
Jeffrey Brown’s warning on oil producers’ own rising consumption gains Wall St backing
What the Export Land Model means for energy prices
Has peak oil as a meme “tipped”? (out of futures backwardation and into contango)
CNN on peak oil
Coal – May 19
Coal industry turns up heat in ad campaign
The world has enough coal reserves for 100 years: true or false?
Why investors worship Old King Coal
ODAC newsletter – May 16
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Deep thought – May 15
Kunstler and Orlov interview
Climate change and public health
Sharon Astyk: Problems and principles of energy descent
David Korten: Navigating the Great Turning from empire to earth community
Clay Shirky on deploying the cognitive surplus for the public good
