Peak Oil Overview – June 2007
Clear explanation of peak oil from “Gail the Actuary.”
Politics
The media awake – June 30
America could do with a few feral beasts
Investigative journalism and the Washington elite
Moyers on Murdoch
North America – June 29
Dems’ plan on energy tilts (pale) green
California no longer leading on wind energy
Conservative think-tank calls for walloping carbon fee
Over 20 MPs and Lords form peak oil group in Parliament
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas (APPGOPO) has been formed, ensuring that the issue of declining global oil supplies will feature much more prominently in Parliament.
Politics – June 28
This is your brain on politics
Gore faces public clamour to run
Tory environmentalist Zac Goldsmith
Biofuels – June 26
Slate: The great corn con: the Senate’s preposterous new ethanol bill
Tapping green alternatives in Oman
Beware the spectre in the fireplace
Ethanolics Anonymous
The difference between hypocrisy and unilateral disarmament
At least one prominent person in the peak oil movement says he can no longer justify attending overseas conferences because of the energy used and the greenhouse gases emitted. And yet, to forego travel and modern methods of communication altogether would be to engage in unilateral disarmament.
United States – June 25
The Oil Drum challenge: What you can do now to change federal energy policy
Democrats move focus from drilling to conservation in new energy bill
New study: Americans skeptical about cap-and-trade
Food & agriculture – June 25
EU rules threaten Transylvanian shepherds
Milk moves from bottles to the bag
San Francisco says no to bottled water
Ag policy as if people mattered
Peak oil crisis: approaching the cliff
It is starting to look as if we are going to arrive at the precipice of oil depletion without Congress having done much of anything to mitigate the situation.
Solutions & sustainability – June 21
Colin Fletcher, backpacking trailblazer, dies
A wiser Earth movement (Paul Hawken)
Debating energy as if communities mattered
Archdruid envisions the future:
Adam’s Story
Sharon Astyk interview
Energy producers – June 20
The plan to disappear Canada
Nigeria: A closer look at “above ground factors”
The Soviet collapse: grain and oil
