ODAC Newsletter – Sept 26
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Oil
United States – Sept 25
States, provinces have plan to cut emissions
Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants
Coal, a tough habit to kick
Deep Thought – Sept 25
Earth Democracy – notes on Vandana Shiva
The old future’s gone (audio)
Ordinary human poverty
Crisis of Confidence
Be it be peak oil, climate change, cigarettes, coal, the state of the economy or the latest toothpaste, we are constantly being lied to.
I can imagine the offices of Wall Street ringing with the song “Happy Days Are Here Again”. Sometimes, the most dangerous lies are the lies we tell ourselves.
Coal – Sept 24
Africa’s hard black gold
Labour conference: John Hutton criticised for comments on coal fired power stations
Obama declares support for ‘clean’ coal
Housing & urban design – Sept 24
The Conversation: How do we become less dependent?
Low-Income Housing: Another Crisis Looming?
Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch
Writers discuss covering the peak oil story, in Sacramento
If you had been able to attend the first afternoon of the ASPO-USA conference in Sacramento yesterday, you could have listened to six writers, most of them working as print journalists today, sharing their insights as to how members of the media cover the peak oil story.
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 23
New system could help avert collapse of fisheries
Peak climate (audio) Part 1 is Dr. Peter Ward on past extinctions & violent climate change, Part 2 is Julian Darley, founder of the Post Carbon Institute, on how to live past the energy crisis
Isle of plenty
Geopolitics – Sept 22
Melting Ice Brings Competition for Resources
Russia’s ties with Venezuela worrying
Pakistan stares into the abyss
Peak Oil Review – September 22
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Oil and the financial crisis
– Gasoline shortages
– War in Nigeria
– Briefs
The evolution of peak oil coverage – a grassroots view
These are the slides and text for a presentation given at the ASPO-USA conference September 21-23.
In these ten minutes, I’d like to provide a context for the discussion. I’d like to paint a broadbrush picture of where we were, and where we are going. It will be from the viewpoint of someone inside the movement looking out.
From the grassroots, rather than from the media.
United States – Sept 20
Palin’s Petropolitics
Speth: Progressive Fusion
A crisis that could make the US election a cleaner contest
