United States – Feb 16
Recovery Plan Captures the Energy Opportunity
Administration delays move toward more offshore drilling
Big Science Role Is Seen in Global Warming Cure
Clinton’s China Visit Opens Door on Climate Change
Oil
Food & agriculture – Feb 16
A farm to teach the world to live without oil
Peak farm equipment?
New frontier in Colorado agriculture, HOPS
Peak oil – Feb 13
New German-language peak oil-aware newsletter now online
U. S. refinery delays may spur su?pply crunch
Mechanics of Future Oil Price Volatility (A Flubber Cobweb)
ODAC Newsletter – 13 Feb
Weekly round up from a UK perspective.
Reality Report: Ecological Economics (rebroadcast)
If an economic system is built on myths that aim to defy the laws of physics and ecology we should not be surprised to see it fail. Perhaps we can use this crisis to begin asking the right questions and redesign with human needs and planetary realities in mind. The Reality Report interviews Professor Joshua Farley of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont.
Reality Report: Michael Klare and the geopolitics of resource consumption
In this show, Jason Bradford and Professor Michael Klare discuss the geopolitics of resource competition. Nations are engaging in a dangerous zero sum game as they jostle over finite supplies of fossil fuels, including the positioning of opposing advanced weapons systems in unstable parts of the world.
Energy industry – Feb 12
Germaine Greer on Dubai
Tar sands boom hits a sticky patch
Gail the Actuary visits Chevron’s Kern River Facility
The peak oil crisis: the economic rebound
The overriding issue is just how long the economic downturn will last. Historical precedent and conventional wisdom from Wall Street seems to be saying that by the middle of 2009 we will hit bottom and things will start to improve. Some, however, are not so sure and are making cases for a downturn of many months, quarters, years, or in extreme cases decades. Sorting this out is obviously impossible for we seem to be entering an era unique in history.
Peak oil notes – Feb 12
A mid-week review, including:
– Prices and production
– Forecasts
Commentary: Redefining “peak oil” for the USA
Peak Oil’s impact on the United States will probably be more severe than what most other countries will feel. This follows from a different way of thinking about the problem – availability vs. production…I would suggest that this is not the most useful way to consider the question.
Prices & supplies – Feb 11
Merrill Lynch says global oil production will decline further in coming years
Henry Groppe inteview
The Price of Oil this summer
Deep thought – Feb 9
The Spike and the Peak
The rhythm of rest and excess
Downward Spiral’s Silver Lining: End of Lonely Plastic Culture
Is This The End Of Wealth Creation?
