Deep thought – Dec 18
Surviving a reduction in social complexity
Change, but at what price?
David Holmgren on Permaculture, Business, Resilience and Transition
Oil
Peak Oil Notes – Dec 18
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– The OPEC decision
– IEA says 2020
– The Detroit saga
Peak oil & copper – Dec 17
New Presentations by Matthew Simmons
Monbiot interviews Fatih Birol
Normally staid IEA says oil will peak in 2020
Chile: copper production down, copper price down … and it’s only going to get worse
Prices & supplies – Dec 17
Oil Prices Below $40 per Barrel
Will postponed investment push peak oil forward?
UK peak oil warning
UK Industry on Peak Oil: Virgin, Yahoo and Others Raise the Alarm
United States – Dec 17
Panel: Navy will need oil for decades
Hard Task for New Team on Energy and Climate
Red Flags as Washington Gears Up to Remake Energy Policy
Energy industry – Dec 16
Brazil: Petrobras euphoria fades with oil price
Greenwashing a tar sands sacrifice zone
UK faces energy blackouts without investment in nuclear and clean coal
Peak oil – Dec 15
NPR on ‘peak oil theory’
Simmons and Hirch at Energy Roundable
Matt Simmons talk: The three energy amigos
Towns and cities should prepare for the peak oil energy crisis
Local governments face: (1) declining revenues due to declining property values and declining family incomes; (2) increasing costs for gasoline, diesel, and heating oil; (3) inflation in the costs of equipment, materials, products, services, and electric power …
Monbiot interviews Fatih Birol
Peak oil gets a good play in the UK Guardian today, as George Monbiot interviews Dr. Fatih Birol of the International Energy Agency (video). Other articles describe the IEA’s recent report and what it means for peak oil.
Peak oil review – Dec 15
A weekly review including:
– Prices and production
– The December 17th OPEC meeting
– Obama’s energy team
– Automobiles
– Briefs
Peak oil, prices & supplies – Dec 13
Post Carbon Cities (peak oil for the American Planning Association)
Goldman Sachs predicts fall in oil prices to $45 a barrel
As China economy brakes, oil demand goes in reverse
Energy giants trim spending plans for 2009
Book Review: “The Long Descent”
John Michael Greer has written a fascinating and engaging, but also contradictory and perplexing account of how he sees the industrial age ending. His primary thesis is that collapse will not come as a sudden, abrupt End Of Days or Die Off scenario.
