Our American way of life is unsustainable – evidence
Survey of the ecological and economic resources critical to the perpetuation of our American way of life.
Oil
Peak Oil – August 18
Peak oil is coming, and we’re unready
Geoscientist: Peak Oil Now? If so, Oil Prices Not Likely to Decline–Ever
Waking up to the threat of ‘peak oil’
Oilwatch Monthly – August 2008
Oil Producers – August 18
Bolivia gets the change it asked for
Life is a misery for ‘married bachelors’ in the UAE
Fresh start for Nigerian oil activists?
Peak Oil Review – August 18
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Oil from the Caspian
– Chinese Demand
– Briefs
Housing & urban design – August 18
What is the future of suburbia? A freakonomics quorum
Watch where you’re walking (audio, slideshow)
Kunstler: Anti-Urban Bias (audio)
Solutions & sustainability – August 18
Bumps on the road to a greener city
San Francisco peak oil town hall meeting: What’s happening with oil? (audio)
Fred’s footprint: the best solution to climate change
Georgia & geopolitics – Aug 17
Krugman: The Great Illusion
Jad Mouawad of NY Times: US efforts threatened
TOD: Georgia discussion
The bear’s Achilles heel
CSM: Petropolitics at heart of Russia-Georgia clash
Georgia Pipeline is new Strait of Hormuz
Michael Klare interview
Holiday in UK shows Peak Oil decline is well on its way
Ex-pat Steve holidays in England, only to find signs of the effects of peak oil everywhere. Over the period of two weeks a number of newspaper articles confirm that the perfect post-peak storm is brewing in this land, once a proud net exporter of oil.
Peak oil and prices – Aug 17
Jeff Vail: Theory of disruptions to oil & resource supply
Al Franken touts energy proposals
Calif Atty General Jerry Brown: Ignore peak oil and be caught with your pants down
Bull on energy, a bear on nearly everything else: Eric Sprott
Murti’s detractors eat crow
WaPo: Prices driving increased extraction
Why does abiotic oil theory ignite peak oil theorists’ fulminations?
United States – Aug 17
Friedman on McCain & renewables: 8 strikes and you’re out
Colbert on offshore drilling
Raleigh county mountain at center of coal vs. wind debate
Beware the energy hot air (the Pickens plan)
Woolsey on T Boone Pickens
API: Oil demand at 5-year low
Windfall tax lets Alaska rake in billions from Big Oil
Do it ALL for energy?
Rollercoaster of oil prices: between a rock and a hard place
In the heady month of July 2008 oil skyrocketed to $147 a barrel more than doubling the price of crude over the 12 months to that time. Many thought oil would race past the $150 mark on the way to $200 and to $300 a barrel, and beyond in the imminent year or two ahead.
Georgia conflict – August 15
Klare: Russia and Georgia: all about oil
Russia starts “Lukewarm War” with the West
Conflict narrows oil options for West
