Peak Oil – Sept 17
Whither oil prices?
OPEC sheds production ceiling
As prices tumble, doomsayers hold fast to prophecy
Education
Clinton reads Heinberg on peak oil
“I borrowed a book from [Bill Clinton] that he had just read—The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg, not exactly summer reading—and it was full of underlinings and what looked like the most serious undergraduate’s markings, with lots of exclamation points.”
As prices tumble, doomsayers hold fast to prophecy
Peak-oil theorists reject any claims of resurgence in supply. It’s been a tough week for peak-oil theorists — those limits-to-growth doomsayers who argue the world’s crude oil supply has begun an inexorable decline that will force prices ever higher.
Solutions and Sustainability – Sept 12
Traffic “experiments” and a cure for waves & jams
Petrolius – satire
Book Review – The Worm Forgives the Plough
Book Review – The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
How cities are preparing for global warming & peak oil
Special issue – one of the best yet from HopeDance. All articles are online and free.
A party plan for raising peak oil awareness
Fun motivates.
Andi and I immediately recognised a novel way to catch people’s interest and a good hook for motivating people to become involved. Put the focus on what we are creating – not what we are leaving behind.
Australia recognizes peak oil
Australians guzzle oil while supplies dwindle
Local PO effort in Queensland
Australian Senate recognizes peak oil
Online official report:
“Australia’s future oil supply and alternative transport fuels”
Tribune reporter set free
Tribune correspondent Paul Salopek was set free Saturday by Sudanese authorities who had charged him with espionage, ending more than a month in custody and starting him on a journey home to the United States.
(EB: Salopek is the author of the recent blockbuster report on oil in the Chicago Tribune: A tank of gas, a world of trouble)
Politics and economics – Sept 8
Vietnam feeling inflationary pressure
Bigger worries than ‘hot’ fuel
E&E TV discuss discuss Prudhoe Bay, elections
Alberta Premier tells greens to keep their noses out of oilsands business
States rights struggle over natural gas reserves
The peak oil crisis: the word begins to spread
Last week Bloomberg, “the leading global provider of data, news and analytics,” published a balanced, carefully researched, 4,200 word article on peak oil. For those of us who follow the peak oil story, this was an event of earth shaking proportions.
Peak oil in Boston
“A Midnight Ride for Peak Oil,” a peak oil conference sponsered by ASPO-USA and Boston University, is set for Oct 25-27.
Solutions and sustainability – Sept 4
A market-based approach to America’s Energy Crisis
Confronting Today’s Oil Crisis in the U.S.
Consumerism – Australia’s national religion
UK’s fossil food