Peak oil – Jan 7
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?
Oil
New books – Jan 7
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, Iraq, oil – Jan 7
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
Iran – Jan 7
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
Profile: Energy Bulletin
Energy Bulletin, like the Post Carbon Institute and much of the broader peak oil movement, is based on a much more useful and accurate foundation than the assumptions underlying most corporate media and government planning discourses — who generally take as a given continuing growth in access to energy.
2006 top green tech ideas
In 2005, Americans woke up to the reality of peak oil. In 2006, we started seeing more attention to the two paths that can lead us forward:
energy efficiency and renewable energy. A number of good ideas have surfaced.
My 2007 peak oil to do list
If we start now and do every day what we can do, we have a good chance of looking back in a few years and being pleasantly surprised that we made it – changed, for sure, but still here.
Energy: That’s oil, folks…
The prominent journal Nature has a detailed report on peak oil and its skeptics. (Excerpts)
The peak oil crisis: 2006 in review
The returns are not in yet, but anecdotal evidence is accumulating that many parts of Africa, Central America, and Asia are starting to shut down. For these peoples, the oil age, such as it was, is already over.
Energy policy – Jan 3
Reserves divided between 2 superpower blocs; war over underwater reserves?
Bush to talk tough on energy but snub Kyoto
Will new Congress change our disastrous energy policy?
Fuelling a Food Crisis: The impact of peak oil on food security
Dwindling oil stocks and EU trade and energy policies threaten food price hikes – and could cause the UK to be vulnerable to food shortages for the first time since the Second World War, according to a new report by Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas.
The peak oil story during 2006
An executive summary of major developments in peak oil for the year.
