Top energy stories of 2006
50 important stories from The Oil Drum – the most prolific source of peak oil analysis on the Web.
Education
A response to the President’s order for us to “go shopping”
Regarding whether I am more or less optimistic over this past year over the local and global response to peak oil, my response is what President Bush just said in his recent speech… “We are not winning, but we are not losing”.
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 28
A grass-roots push for a ‘low carbon diet’ – how new ideas spread
Visit to an island nation (Scotland and England)
Climate – Dec 27
Small Oregon papers – big series on climate
Global warming claims tropical island
Online lectures from U of Arizona
Dire warnings from China’s 1st climate report
Peak oil – Dec 24
McKibben in Sierra Club: Energizing America
TOD: A primer on reserve growth
How to address contrarian arguments: “We have huge reserves”
Rail-Volution on peak oil
Peak food and population overshoot
We don’t know Jack
Open letter to Peter Jackson of CERA
Analyst Chris Skrebowski is “surprised and somewhat saddened to read CERA’s curious attack on the concept of Peak Oil.” After analyzing CERA’s figures, however, he concludes that “far from dispelling concerns about Peak Oil you have effectively confirmed that they are real and imminent. “
Peak oil – Dec 22
Audio interview with Tom Whipple (new)
Desperately shrinking Big Oil
Cultural Economist: online report on oil depletion
Skeptics speak against their own interests
UK Soil Assn conference focuses on peak oil
Dr. Jerry Unruh – interview
Peak oil and the energy utilization chain (EUC)
Nawida 2150: Q&A
A final look at the deindustrial scenario sketched out in the last five Archdruid Reports — a world that has finished sliding down the far side of Hubbert’s peak.
Peak oil at the movies: Oil Crash & Crude Impact
Reviews of two recently released documentaries.
10,600 scientists condemn political interference in science
A statement by Nobel laureates and other leading scientists calling for the restoration of scientific integrity to federal policy making has now been signed by 10,600 scientists from all 50 states.
Nawida 2150
A final narrative exploration of life in a deindustrial future, fifty more years and several rounds of planetary change after “Solstice 2100.”
Pope calls energy alternatives a source of peace
In an annual message for peace, Pope Benedict XVI strongly emphasized a theme rarely taken up in his nearly two years as pope: what he called the “ecology of peace,” the idea that protecting the environment and finding alternative energy sources could reduce conflict.