Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
– “The Ultimate Roller Coaster Ride: A Brief History of Fossil Fuels” (Post Carbon Institute)
– “The Story of Electronics” (Annie Leonard)
– “Permaculture: The Growing Edge” (Starhawk and Donna Read)
– “The Economics of Happiness” (Helena Norberg-Hodge)
– “Collapsus” – what energy collapse might look like (interactive video)
– Steve LeVine: How to read today’s big report on the future of energy
– National Georgraphic: Has the World Already Passed “Peak Oil”?
– Online Executive Summary of the report
– Energy inaction will cost us trillions
– IEA: “peak oil is an inevitability”
Lemme start with letting my alter ego, Hamster, review the narrative in the style of my fellow Vanderbilt alumnus, Joe Bob Biggs of “Joe Bob Goes to the Drive In” fame, then the geek engineer can get to appropriate technology.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The US elections
-Iraq
You know, knowing the nature of the disease is usually an essential first step to finding a cure. And so too, it is with a recession. Knowing the true nature of a recession goes a long way in helping us to avoid falling into another one. Particularly when the recession we are just coming out of happens to be the deepest global post-war recession on record.
– US Coal to Gasoline Plant Will be the Largest in the World
– New Exxon talking points
– SCSU professor eyes oil deposits in study
– Energy analyst Charles Maxwell: brace for $300/barrel oil
– An Update on All Things Transitioney and French
– Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition (Brazil, US … )
– Dinero contra energía fósil: La batalla por el control del mundo (online Spanish translations)
– Bem-Vindo ao Pico do Petróleo (new Brazil peak oil website)
– Asher Miller: Muddled up in climate politics
– California exceptionalism or a rising green tide?
– Barack Obama’s Green Agenda Crushed at the Ballot Box
– Alberta’s dirty oil image cleaned by U.S. midterms
– Republicans go climate sceptic
A new German “near fiction” feature film about life in the post-peak world
Oil rose to a six-month high of more than $87/barrel as the Federal Reserve embarked on a new round of quantitative easing worth $600bn and Saudi Oil Minister Ali al Naimi raised his target oil price to $70-90 per barrel. Shokri Ghanem, chairman of Libya’s National Oil Corporation said the price should be higher still, at around $100/barrel…
This time Janaia’s in the hot seat! In this interview by Jim Fritz on Port Townsend Television, she tackles corporate control and a dysfunctional system that profits from increasing unhealthiness and consuming the planet. She points to Peak Moment guests as models for the average family to gain genuine security. They’re withdrawing from the money system, growing food, and joining neighbors to prepare for emergencies.
Do you remember the furor over drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge a few years back? The whole country was up in arms. At various times some 50 to 60 percent of Americans favored drilling in the area as they were told this would result in lower gas prices.
