Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Understanding the delusions under which America’s leaders and media suffer allows us to see why the most obvious solution to America’s predicament in Iraq goes unmentioned, namely, a vast crash program to free America from fossil fuels, especially oil, in favor of renewable, low-carbon sources of energy.
ASPO’s Steve Andrews speaks in New Mexico
Does the peak oil theory just fall down?
Indirect impacts of peak oil and climate change
Mayor’s climate protection agreement compared to PO resolutions
Destabilizing the Horn: American-backed warlords invade Somalia
What’s at stake in the Horn of Africa
Background: The oil factor in Somalia
His “endurance” criterion is flawed in that it focuses on endurance of the energy system, not ecosystems. “…clean energy – whether relying on fossil fuels or some other option – does not ensure a sustainable human presence on earth…”
This morning the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources launched its New Year with an unusual hearing into “The Geopolitics of Oil.” There was an almost palpable sense of graveness and alarm that lent a chill to the room.
Q & A with CEO of AES – clean coal?
The greening of the oil sands
Interview with Paul Gipe, wind pioneer
The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. But just how the impacts of these two problems relate to one another, and how policies to address them should differ or overlap, are questions that have so far not been adequately discussed.
Slick new Peak Oil Primer from ASPO-Spain
Heinberg: bridging peak oil and climate change activism
Kunstler: A wake-up call in the shadow of oil scarcity
Kunstler foreshadowed
Reason: political peak oil
U.S. puts squeeze on Iran’s oil fields
Iran oil exports could dwindle
Iranian petro crisis and US national security
Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran
Oil: fast-vanishing drug the world can’t live without
An almost friendly update on world oil
Scientific American and the silent lie
Bartlett to introduce PO and energy bills to Congress
Of leeches & midwives?
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon
How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics and Portfolios by Bill Paul
Diamonds In My Pocket by Amanda Kovattana
War and cheap oil: a second look
The new Middle East: close of the American era
Future of Iraq: The spoils of war
The Independent on the oil rush
How the West will profit from Iraq’s most precious commodity
Iraqi possible oil contracts (PSAs): some facts
