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Stephen Leeb: How to deal with the coming economic crisis

Investment expert and author Stephen Leeb believes we’re entering the beginning of the end when it comes to the commodities that hold our modern world together. Resources such as oil, copper and iron are being rapidly depleted — and with the needs of developing countries, demands are only increasing. The economic fallout from the end […]

'Biochar' as a Modern Weapon Against Global Warming

ScienceDaily Kelli Roberts and colleagues note that biochar is charcoal produced by heating wood, grass, cornstalks or other organic matter in the absence of oxygen. The heat drives off gases that can be collected and burned to produce energy. It leaves behind charcoal rich in carbon. Science Daily

No Peak Oil Here: API's Gerard Touts U.S. Resources

So what is the state of the energy industry in the United States? If you Gerard, who spoke Wednesday at the 6th Annual State of the Energy Industry USEA Conference, took aim at the Obama administration and Congress for policies and proposed legislation. Some policies he is unhappy with include the Interior Department

Environmental Destruction, Chaos Bleeding Across Haitian Border

MALPASSE, Haiti — In October, three Haitian men were shot dead and a fourth was wounded just across the Dominican Republic border from this dusty and impoverished town. The men were gunned down, investigators say, by vigilantes or a rival criminal group for cutting down trees for charcoal. The remains of the three dead men […]

US sees non-OPEC oil output growth ending in 2011

The world will become more dependent on OPEC oil beginning next year as the combined oil output from countries outside of the producer group begins to decline, the U.S. government said on Tuesday. The Energy Information Administration said in its new monthly forecast that non-OPEC oil supplies will not sustain the 630,000 barrel-per day-increase experienced […]

ExxonMobil to Tap Millions from Mature Field in Texas

ExxonMobil Production Company announced a project at the Hawkins Field in northeast Texas to recover the equivalent of an additional 40 million barrels of oil, an amount equal to the annual energy needs of over one million Texas households. “These advanced technologies breathe life into mature fields, thereby producing more resources for energy consumers.”The project […]

BIODIVERSITY: A Tipping Point on Species Loss?

Humanity is destroying the network of living things that comprise our life support system. While this sawing-through-the-branch-we’re-perched-on is largely unintentional, world leaders can’t say they didn’t know what’s going on: 123 countries promised to take urgent action in 2003 but have done little to stem the rising tide of extinctions in what’s known as the […]

Carmakers Bet On Electric; See Early Hurdles

Carmakers emerging from a savage crisis hope to lure drivers to electric cars in the coming years, but cost, range and safety considerations mean many are still cautious, holding back from predicting an early sales boom. As automakers showcased gleaming, futuristic electric cars at the Detroit Auto Show this week — some of which will […]

China's automakers get a turbo boost

Chery Automobile, BYD Auto and other Chinese car brands, whose sales are already booming in the world’s biggest auto market, are set to get a further boost from changes to rules on Chinese central government purchases of vehicles. New guidelines that will lower the maximum engine size and prices permitted for government vehicles are expected […]

Pacific Islanders Bid to Stop Czech Coal Plant

A small pacific island state’s challenge to a Czech coal-fired power plant extension some 6,000 km away on grounds it could harm its environment could open a new front in the fight over global climate change. Micronesia has filed a plea with the Czech environment ministry using a measure designed originally to settle disputes between […]

Ecuador Minister Resigns Over Amazon Oil Project

Ecuador’s foreign minister resigned Tuesday after President Rafael Correa criticized his handling of negotiations to prevent oil drilling in a pristine Amazon reserve. Fander Falconi was the third government official to resign over a plan to seek international donations of $3 billion over the next 10 years to keep an estimated 850 million barrels of […]

Supply Chain Comment: The Start of Demand Destruction for Oil?

Preparing now for the Changing Energy World of the Future Are we seeing the first phase of demand destruction for oil? I was talking with a colleague this week about peak oil accelerating the desire of organizations to craft lean supply chains. Research suggests that rising oil prices impact supply chain dynamics in manners that […]

US raises concern over China oil policy

The US has expressed concern to Chinese officials about Beijing’s attempts to buy up global oil reserves for the long term. “We are pursuing intensive dialogue with the Chinese on the subject of energy security, in which we have raised our concerns about Chinese efforts to lock up oil reserves with long-term contracts,” David Shear, […]

California Approves Standard

(Bloomberg) — California regulators approved a carbon fuel standard yesterday that the U.S. ethanol industry says will bar domestic forms of the fuel from being used in the nation

Are we leading ourselves into starvation?

Climate change, exploding populations, peak oil, and global instability will all combine to wreak havoc on the future global food supply system. By 2030, the world

The Peak Oil Crisis: Gasoline Prices Revisited

It has been 18 months since we all worried very much about high oil prices. Starting in July 2008 gasoline prices took an historic plunge dropping from a U.S. average high of $4.11 a gallon all the way down to $1.70 in January 2009. In retrospect this price drop was a good thing for it […]

Major Antarctic glacier is 'past its tipping point'

A major Antarctic glacier has passed its tipping point, according to a new modelling study. After losing increasing amounts of ice over the past decades, it is poised to collapse in a catastrophe that could raise global sea levels by 24 centimetres. Pine Island glacier (PIG) is one of many at the fringes of the […]

'Greenroads' rates sustainable road projects

Road construction is a more than $80 billion annual industry in the United States. Yet nothing comparable to the LEED rating system for buildings, or the Energy Star system for appliances, exists for highways and roads. University of Washington researchers and global engineering firm CH2M Hill today unveiled Greenroads, a rating system for sustainable road […]

Low carbon revolution and the emergence of the green-glomerate

Given how often parallels are drawn between the Industrial Revolution and the emerging low carbon revolution, it is remarkable how little detailed analysis there has been of the similarities that exist between the 19th century phenomenon that provided the foundations for the modern world and the imminent shift in the global economy that represents the […]

Pickens reduces order for wind turbines, puts Panhandle wind farm on hold

T. Boone Pickens has cut his massive order for wind turbines from GE by more than half. The energy investor, who made wind power a key part of his plan to wean Americans off foreign oil, said Tuesday he will now take delivery of 300 turbines, which he will use for wind farms in Canada […]

The End of Retirement

Only 120 years old and widely available to the middle class for just the last 60 or so years, retirement is coming to an end. It is the unique product of several converging factors. The first was energy abundance in the form of fossil fuels, which allowed an ever-decreasing number of people to work the […]

Texas town welcomed drilling, now fears pollution

DISH, Texas Many in the town on the rural plains of Fort Worth didn’t even bother to ask whether the drilling might sour the air above the gas-rich rock formation called the Barnett Shale. “Nobody even thought about that kind of stuff,” Mayor Calvin Tillman said. By the time state regulators started testing the air […]

Oil Demand Seems to be Moving Up – Are Higher Prices around the Corner?

The recent run-up in oil prices to $84 barrel is being blamed on an increase in Chinese oil imports. In December, Chinese imports of crude oil rose to 20 million tonnes, or the equivalent of 4.7 million barrels a day. Recent purchases of African crude have been especially high, with purchases by Asian markets reaching […]

Nine meals from anarchy

A cold snap shows how fragile our supply of food and fuel is. We need a more sustainable system …In 2004 Britain ceased to be able to meet its energy needs domestically. Since then our dependence on imports, particularly of natural gas, has risen dramatically. The situation can only worsen as gas is subject to […]

Latin America's water needs could foster collaboration to curb warming

Ask the mayor of a city in the Andes mountains about the outcome of December’s climate negotiations in Copenhagen, and you will probably receive a perfunctory reply. Ask about the plummeting levels of local freshwater reservoirs, and you will get an earful. The reason goes to the heart of the disagreements that split the industrialized […]

Brazil cuts ethanol blend in gasoline to 20 pct

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s government has temporarily cut the mandated amount of ethanol blended into gasoline to 20 percent from 25 percent due to low supplies of the biofuel, the energy ministry said on Monday. The reduction will be in force for 90 days from February 1. …Brazil is the world’s biggest producer of cane-based […]

A Picture of Our Post Peak Oil Food Supply

We have commented on several books in recent months that highlight how a world with limited oil resources will be forced to change. The idea that people will no longer be able to live in the suburbs and forced to move into metropolitan areas because of the lack of gasoline and high fuel prices seems […]

Venezuelans Brace for Rolling Blackouts as Power Output Falters

(Bloomberg) — Venezuelans will face rolling blackouts for the next five months starting today as the worst drought in 50 years threatens to shut the nation The blackouts are another economic blow after President Hugo Chavez devalued the nation

Kunstler: Six Months to Live

…Perhaps the most troubling buzz in the air this first month of 2010 are rumors of coming food shortages due to widespread crop failures around the world in the harvest seasons of 2009. If the US Department of Agriculture hasn Finally there

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