23 December , 2006
New German Community Models Car-Free Living
By Isabelle de Pommereau
Welcome to Germany's best-known environmentally friendly neighborhood and a successful experiment in green urban living. The Vauban development - 2,000 new homes on a former military base 10 minutes by bike from the heart of Freiburg - has put into practice many ideas that were once dismissed as eco-fantasy but which are now moving to the center of public policy
30 October , 2006
The Oil Crisis Started 30 Years Ago
By Peter Goodchild
It is customary to look for the critical year of oil production in absolute terms, but in the year 1970 or thereabouts there was another important "conjunction," to use an astrological metaphor
25 October , 2006
The Path Beyond Petroleum: Twelve Theses
By Peter Goodchild
Oil production in the year 2025 will be half that of the year 2000. If we combine those figures with those of world population, we find a ratio of 5 barrels of oil per person per year in 2000, but only 2 barrels of oil per person per year in 2025
18 October , 2006Peak Oil: The Clock Is Ticking
By Peter Goodchild
All civilizations grow too large to support themselves, and their leaders have little foresight. These civilizations then collapse and are buried in the mud. The same will happen to America, but human shortsightedness prevents us from seeing America as only one among many civilizations
Major Problems Of Surviving Peak Oil
By Norman
I do not believe that we can stop the crash but I believe that we can, to a degree, prepare ourselves and those close to us for the aftermath
14 October , 2006
Reflections On The Oil Wars
By Peter Goodchild
Modern warfare is mainly about oil, in spite of all the pious and hypocritical rhetoric about "the forces of good" and "the forces of evil." The real "forces" are those trying to control the oil wells and the fragile pipelines that carry that oil. A map of American military ventures is a map of petroleum
06 October , 2006Peak Oil And The Myth Of Sustainability
By Peter Goodchild
If we have already established the premise that "the human race faces unsolvable problems," the answer is not to waste further amounts of time and energy in asking whether those problems exist. The best response is to find ways to survive within that problematic world
29 September , 2006
Peak Oil And The Problem Of Infrastructure
By Peter Goodchild
Fossil fuels, metals, and electricity are all intricately connected. Each is inaccessible - on the modern scale - without the other two. Any two will vanish without the third. If we imagine a world without fossil fuels, we must imagine a world without metals or electricity. What we imagine, at that point, is a society far more primitive than the one to which we are accustomed
25 September , 2006
Russia Sets The Pace In Energy Race
By M K Bhadrakumar
Next week's meeting in Beijing on energy security involving the United States, China, Japan, India and South Korea is a dramatic manifestation of the new battle plans and war doctrines that Washington is conceptualizing. The conclave in Beijing, significantly, leaves out Western Europe
24 September , 2006
The Myth Of Alternative Energy
By Peter Goodchild
Alternative sources of energy will never be very useful, for several reasons, but mainly because of a problem of "net energy": the amount of energy output is not sufficiently greater than the amount of energy input. Alternative sources simply don't have enough "bang" to replace 30 billion annual barrels of oil
22 September, 2006
Surviving The Oil Crash:
Leadership And Social Structure
By Peter Goodchild
The biggest news story of modern times rarely appears in the conventional news media, or it appears only in distorted forms. Ironically, the modern world is plagued by a lack of serious information. What is most apparent is the larger problem that there is no leadership, no sense of organization, for dealing with peak-oil issues
18 September, 2006
Pragmatists And Heretics - Peak Oil
And Runaway Global Warming
By Bill Henderson
But considering the growing evidence pointing to imminent peak oil dislocation and runaway global warming especially, I still ask why is there no informed consideration and debate about needed governance innovation beyond incremental change within the market economy?
16 September, 2006
Peak Oil Preparations: Money And Labor
By Peter Goodchild
The answer, in part, is to give up the use of money well ahead of time, instead of letting the money economy claim more victims. Barter would allow people to provide for their daily needs on a local basis, without the dubious assistance of governments or corporations
04 September, 2006
Planning For A Post-Oil Economy
By Peter Goodchild
The most basic principle of post-oil survival is that one has to start thinking in terms of a smaller radius of activity. The globalized economy has to be replaced by the localized economy
01 August, 2006
Energy Dependence And Why we War-War
By Jeff Berg
Now more than ever America is dependent on other people’s oil and this is what the wars in the Middle East are about everything else by contrast is mere pretext. The one exception being water issues which are still a very distant second
18 July, 2006
Demand Destruction - Stadium
By Bill Henderson
So far rising gas prices have had little effect on North American consumption patterns. But high fuel prices are seriously exacerbating basic survival problems in those many developing countries with limited oil reserves. Some countries are already having a very hard time keeping their economies from drowning in the rising tide of fuel prices
17 July, 2006
Thinking The Unthinkable
By Norman Church
Oil depletion is just the first of a series of resource crisis humanity is about to face because there are just too many of us! This century we will face peak resources, period
08 July, 2006
End Of Cheap Oil, The Global Energy Crisis
And Climate Change
By Vandana Shiva
While the political parties protest against the hike in oil prices, society also needs to start taking a long-term view of the ecological, economic and social costs of our growing oil addition
28 April, 2006
Big-Mouth Bush Told Clinton How To Handle OPEC
By Evelyn Pringle
The high energy costs are affecting everyone, from commuters and consumers, to public and private programs. The damage is devastating everywhere
21 April, 2006
Peak Oil And The Political Economy Of Terrorism
By Mathew Maavak
Crude oil has breached the $70 psychological barrier again. It is high noon for those prospecting for maximum oil returns. This time, however, it will not be a one-day seduction by the stormy Katrina. The causative culprits are aplenty. Peak Oil is forming a strategic fit with Peak Terrorism
10 April, 2006
Energy Philosophy For Entropic Times
By Andrew McKillop
Waking up to basic facts of nature and existence should be a part of the education process, but the state and religion got there first and filled the schoolbooks with cranky logic and half-baked slogans. Change has to come and will come, Peak Oil means we are going somewhere else where we could or might do better. Be sure of it !
06 April, 2006
Europe’s Energy Crisis Sharpens
Antagonisms With Russia
By Fergus Michaels
The European Union is largely dependent upon external sources for its energy supplies, particularly Russia, but also Norway and Algeria. That dependency is set to accelerate substantially in the coming period
25 March, 2006
Russia Plays China Energy Card
By Vladimir Radyuhin
Russia has made a new move to assert itself as a global energy broker and make other countries play by its rules. On a visit to China this week, President Vladimir Putin pledged to build two natural gas pipelines to China, as well as jointly develop Russian offshore gas fields
Christian Country With Huge Aggressive Military?
By Bill Henderson
The peak of oil production should also be the peak of globalization and almost certainly the once expanding ethical framework will contract or relocalize, probably to sub-nation state locality
23 February, 2006
India Spreads Its Net For Gas,Any Gas
By Siddharth Srivastava
While efforts are under way to seal nuclear deals with the US and France to generate electricity, India's efforts to tie up gas resources as another alternative to fossil fuels have gathered momentum
18 February, 2006
Peak Oil - The Great Tsunami
By Michael Payne
Peak Oil- the giant wave that will change our lifestyles forever
11 February, 2006
The Permanent Energy Crisis
By Michael T. Klare
President Bush's State of the Union comment that the United States is "addicted to oil" can be read as pure political opportunism. But there is another, more ominous way to read his comments: that top officials have come to realize that the United States and the rest of the world face a new and growing danger – a permanent energy crisis that imperils the health and well-being of every society on earth
08February, 2006
How Can Humanity Best Regulate Itself
By Stephen Hren
The peak in fossil energy extraction will expose the fallacy of limitless growth. This realization can lead to two paths. The first is the violent theft of the last remaining resources. The second is a fuller understanding of the right to property that makes it truly accessible to all
31 January, 2006
Trading Oil In Euros – Does It Matter?
By Cóilín Nunan
Is the threat of an Iranian oil bourse trading oil in euros the real reason for the possible military attack of Iran? First, we must understand exactly why central banks keep foreign exchange reserves
27 January, 2006
Osama's Secret Weapon
By Neal Brandvik
Osama says he is patient and willing to wait for USA's demise as long as it takes. Is he crazy? Where does he get the idea that a group of rag tag thugs who live in caves is going to defeat the greatest superpower nation in history?
26 January, 2006
Peak America – Is Our Time Up?
By Pat Murphy
Is the American Century over? When the impact of Peak Oil really hits, how will we deal with it? Will we cooperate with the rest of the world in sharing scarce resources, or will we rely on our status as the only Superpower to try to bully the world? And if the latter, would we survive?
India, China, And The Asian Axis Of Oil
By Siddharth Varadarajan
In less than a year, India and China have managed to confound analysts around the world by turning their much-vaunted rivalry for the acquisition of oil and gas assets in third countries into a nascent partnership that could alter the basic dynamics of the global energy market
23 January, 2006
Oil, Conflict And The Future Of
Global Energy Supplies
By Courtenay Barnett
The Bush administration has chosen the path of unending war (not so much against terrorism) but by pursuing a path of energy acquisition reliant on aggression that stirs global reactions that lead to terrorism
21 January, 2006
What They Don't Want You To Know
About The Coming Oil Crisis
By Jeremy Leggett
Soaring fuel prices, rumours of winter power cuts, panic over the gas supply from Russia, abrupt changes to forecasts of crude output... Is something sinister going on?
19 January, 2006
Peak Oil: Aids, Addiction And Opportune Infections
By Bill Henderson
We need justice in Iraq - acknowledgement that war in Iraq was a criminal mistake - in order to get back off the resource war path so that a cooperative, peaceful solution to the end of cheap oil is possible
06 January, 2006
Peak Oil And The Politics Of Global Solutions
By Gareth Doutch
As people become aware of sustainability issues (and especially with peak oil) they almost immediately begin to look at reducing the fossil fuel dependence in their lives, learning to grow their own food, creating forward-looking networks etc. For all of the good work being done by folk, the fact cannot be escaped that government action needs to be taken at the nation state and, more importantly, global levels
03 January, 2006
Oil Market Analysts Issue Dire Warnings
By Humberto Márquez
While this year's record high oil prices are unlikely to come down in the near future, analysts are warning the world's traditional and emerging economic powers to curb consumption, saying that at the current rate, proven reserves will only meet demand up to 2030
