Solutions & sustainability – May 4
Building industry coalesces around environmental techniques / Dongtan and greening China / Vampire Power / Teaching environmental science without a textbook
Education
Environment – May 2
On water vapor and climate change /
NRDC’s David Hawkins on the state of global warming science /
Oil companies have a recipe for the Arctic: Defrost, drill, guzzle /
Canada censorship on global warming helps produce a brisk seller
Voice of America on peak oil
If the “Peak Oil” theorists are right, vast patterns of social behavior may be about to change. [Peak oil writer Tom Whipple is interviewed – audio and transcript onlline]
The illusion of autonomy in the fossil fuel age
We get what we want from our energy slaves, it seems, without having to deal with real people in any way remotely approaching the intimate way those living with or without slavery in the pre-fossil fuel age had to.
Peak oil – Apr 20
A conversation with Wendell Berry /
Presentations from Triangle (NC) PO conference /
Great Decisions TV: Global energy outlook /
“Rich Dad, Poor Dad” author: The coming oil crisis /
Colorado state geologist: Oil world in decline /
Why metals stocks haven’t peaked /
Sustainable Energy Forum May 7-9 Washington, DC /
Lester Brown: Wartime mobilization effort needed to save environment & civilization
Alternative energy and the American enterprise
If our political system fails to deliver a viable energy policy, then business consumers will be forced to take matters into their own hands
Peak oil – Apr 18
Lundberg on the Washington Petrocollapse conference May 6 /
Personal finance adviser Jane Bryant Quinn on peak oil /
Plateau continues, aided by outages…
Full text of San Franciso peak oil resolution
RESOLVED, That [we] acknowledge the unprecedented challenges of Peak Oil [and that we] support the adoption of a global Oil Depletion Protocol
Petrocollapse – chaos or sustainability
The Washington DC Petrocollapse Conference “takes the peak oil discussion to the next level as to whether it’s going to bring complete chaos and destruction or a transition to a sustainable culture.”
Peak oil – Apr 15
“Into the Storm” – rousing PO talk at green building convention /
How can we rely on current reserve reports? /
1859, ‘No More Oil’ Ceremony, Titusville, Pennsylvania /
San Francisco – 1st U.S. city to pass PO resolution /
NYC conference Apr 27-29
Peak oil – Apr 14
H.T. Odum’s “The global network ” now online /
Peak oil introductory flyer /
EROEI math /
Kunstler /
John Howe at NYC PO conference Apr 27-29
Edison on renewables
Thomas Alva Edison: “This scheme of combustion to get power makes me sick to think of–it is so wasteful … we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy.”