Deep thought – Feb 3
The Myth of the Efficient Car
Remaking America: The Ambiguities of Obama
Dangerous Oil
Politics
Food & agriculture – Feb 2
‘Honey, they shrunk the groceries’; Prices go up, sizes go down
Amazon rainforest razed so cattle can graze
Landless Worker’s Movement (MST) turns 25
Wealthy countries gaze hungrily at Canada’s prairies
Protest – Feb 2
Riot? If I were 20 years younger I would take to the streets
Thousands protest across Russia
Greek Farmers Clash With Riot Police
United States – Jan 31
Doing the recovery right
IT admin plotted to erase Fannie Mae
We’re working longer than ever to pay for fossil fuels
Global – Jan 31
Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets
Arctic’s thaw brings security risks for NATO
Gulf’s green claims awash in a desert of deception
Economic fallout – Jan 30
The Human Costs of the Economic Crisis
Hundreds of thousands protest in France
Economic woes at heart of French strike
Efficient market hypothesis is dead – for now
Depression Or Recovery — What’s In the Cards?
Peak oil notes – Jan 29
A weekly update including:
– Prices
– Curbing emissions and consumption
UK & Europe – Jan 29
Russian oil production reaches its peak
EU spending spree brings carbon capture closer to reality
UK gets biofuels research centre
Britain’s energy industry is nosediving into a dark, uncertain future
The ecology of social change
Most current efforts at social change, in and out of the peak oil community, take their direction from ideologies that claim to point the way to a better world. Is an approach drawing on the insights of human ecology potentially a better gamble?
Peak Moment 137: Peak Oil – Politics, Geopolitics, and Choke Points
These four presentations were taped at the ASPO-USA 2008 conference. Morey Wolfson’s GoogleEarth presentation zooms into global Choke Points, primarily in the middle east. Jeff Vail discusses geopolitical elements to energy limitations. Tom Whipple describes ASPO resources and current energy strains. Terry Backer explains how to get a peak oil resolution through a legislative body.
Fuel emergency part 2: IEA plan
The issue of planning for and administering fuel emergencies is complex and multi-layered, involving a range of commercial interests, government agencies and a tangle of legislation, policies and jurisdictions, one of the largest and most influential of which is the International Energy Agency, an autonomous body within the framework of the OECD.
Climate & environment – Jan 28
Bill McKibben interviewed by Jason Bradford
Global Warming Is Irreversible, Study Says
The other global warming
Global Warming Could Unleash Ocean ‘Dead Zones’: Study
