Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
What matters now more than ever, and what is getting lost in all the immediate economic turmoil, is the unprecedented scope of the problems we face in the 21st century. Great change is inevitable. Trying to hang on to the way things have been—seemingly endless exponential GDP growth— is a mistake. Focusing exclusively on fixing the economy to get back on the business-as-usual growth track obscures much bigger problems coming down the road.
Monbiot: Cutting consumption is more important than limiting population
Interview with William Halal and Dmitry Orlov
World Made by Hand and post-apocalyptic fiction: a prepper’s perspective
Bill Clinton on the Future of Energy
Legalizing cannabis: is the ground shifting?
U.S. Housing Starts Fell to Record Low in January
After the crash, Iceland’s women lead the rescue
Teaching Cuba’s Energy Revolution
The Answer is in the Trees
Non OPEC-12 Oil Production Peaked in 2004
“A Farm for the Future”… essential viewing
Sovereign wealth eyes move into commodities, oil
Are Reserves of the Largest US Coal Field Overstated by 50%?
Energy Security First (Canada)
China Changes Calculus for Petro-Rulers
China prepares to buy up foreign oil companies
China, Venezuela bolster ‘strategic fund’ for development
When you read the various CERA reports in chronological order, you realize that CERA is gliding away from previous strongly held beliefs and setting the stage for joining the Peak Oil community.
This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of “Energy Limits to Growth,” a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.
Peak Oil: why $40 per barrel is no cause for complacency
The great oil output race
Energy secretary predicts higher demand for oil
Oil companies spend millions to protect the primary source of the world’s energy
A weekly roundup of Peak Oil issues – including:
– Production and Prices
– The March OPEC meeting
– Nigeria
– China goes shopping
– Briefs
Peak energy: promise or peril? (Nature)
New documentary: Australia Pumping Empty
Heinberg on the conservation imperative
Blind Spot documentary
WaPo: Trouble trickles from steep drop in oil prices
Oilsands scare ads tough to counter
NASA’s Hansen concerned about Canada’s oil sands
The Canadian Oil Boom: Scraping Bottom
