Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The words “holy crap” were pretty much the first ones to my lips this morning, when several people sent me George Monbiot’s latest column…After being so flattered I could die, I suffered the irresistable desire to argue back, and I’m going to…
Kurt Cobb: The energy optimist’s lexicon
Norway slips on scarcer oil
Report available: “Impact of Peak Oil in South Australia”
Predicting future supply from undiscovered oil
Hubbert: King of the Technocrats
Ride-sharing: A technology for the long emergency
Always-on headlines in the EU – accelerating peak oil?
How US is Losing the Plug-in Race
Deffeyes: To The Peak Oil Community
Shocks, Shortages, and Scenarios – Planning for a Post-Oil Future
IEA WEO 2008: The Oil Model – Summary and Suggestions for the WEO 2009
What’s up with the price of oil?
Alaska’s Key to Oil Production – It’s a Gas…
UK: Coal’s return raises pollution threat
Oil giants talk tax to kill environment
A Detroit Bailout Must Include a Green Makeover
A Green Deal for Transportation
Is Obama’s Energy Plan Enough? No, Many Environmentalists Say
Obama’s green start
Unlike the other post-oil novels published so far, Ill Wind isn’t about peak oil. In those other novels, oil has gradually dribbled away while we’ve steadfastly ignored the warning signs. But in Ill Wind, the world’s oil vanishes suddenly after some bizarre, experimental oil-eating microbe is unleashed on a massive tanker spill, and then runs amok. What Ill Wind and those other novels do have in common, however, is that they imagine a future world without oil.
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American Physical Society Report on Energy Efficiency
Challenges To Environmentally Responsible Energy Use In Today’s Society
At a New York Seminary, a Green Idea Gets Tangled in Red Tape
Peak oil activists from across the nation gathered on a college campus over the Halloween weekend to confront the scary prospects of declining worldwide oil production – and to focus on how they and their communities can cope. “People can find ways to lead happy, fulfilling lives even as this doomed system crumbles all around them,” Russian immigrant writer Dmitry Orlov told the conference.
“Fuel”: A persuasive argument for kicking our addiction to oil
Using Energy Like Pigs
Brazil’s biofuel industry dries up
The key question is whether we have the time for said gradual energy transition. … Should the analogy be the American entry into World War II which led to a command economy directed by the federal government with the aim of winning the war? One could certainly argue that the United States did not make optimal use of its resources during World War II. But, it did win.
