Water, Water Everywhere

As the global population continues to swell, supplies of clean drinking water have grown increasingly scarce. Although 70 percent of the Earth is covered in water, only 3 percent of this is fresh water. Much of this fresh water is locked in ice caps, inaccessible or unusable, leaving only 0.3 percent available for human consumption. […]

A world hungry for growth will have to be fed

We have all experienced it: paying for our groceries at the supermarket checkout and staring in disbelief at how little change we’ve received. While the business sections of the world’s media focus on stocks, bonds, precious metals, oil and interest rates, these have a limited impact on most people’s lives compared with food commodity prices. […]

John Michael Greer: In The World After Abundance

Over the past month or so the essays on this blog have veered away from the details of appropriate tech into a discussion of some of the reasons why this kind of tech is, in fact, appropriate as a response to the predicament of industrial society. That was a necessary diversion, since a great many […]

Video from Slow Living Summit

Will Rapp, former CEO of Gardener’s SUpply company speaks at the Slow Living Summit in Brattleboro VT, WEdnesday, June 1st 2011. Topics include Peak Oil, clean energy, community, farming. It’s about getting ready for a non-petroleum based economy and a society that treats each other with dignity.

Russian May Oil Output Rises to 10.26 Million Barrel a Day

Oil output in Russia, the world’s largest oil producer, climbed 1.2 percent in May from a year earlier, to the highest since October’s post-Soviet record. Production rose to 10.26 million barrels a day, according to preliminary data from the Energy Ministry’s CDU-TEK unit. That compares with 10.23 million barrels a day in April. Prime Minister […]

Radiated Water at Fukushima Plant May Breach Storage Trenches in Five Days

Radioactive water accumulating in Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant is set to start overflowing from storage trenches in five days, data provided by the company show. To prevent leakage into the ocean, the utility has poured concrete and gravel to seal off storage trenches closest to the sea containing water from […]

Gulf Cooperation Council courts new kingdoms

It all started – as many stories do these days – on Twitter. In May, rumours that Jordan and Morocco might be asked to join the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) spurred a flurry of tweets questioning the motives of Saudi Arabia, the main proponent of the project, and speculating on the respective incentives for this potential […]

Floating LNG: The Final Frontier Of The Gas Age

Shell recently announced that their Prelude floating LNG project off north west Western Australia has passed another milestone, with the $US12.6 billion ($11.8bn) project receiving final investment approval. Prelude is expected to produce 3.6 million tonnes per annum of LNG, as well as 1.3 million tonnes of condensate and 400,000 tonnes of LPG. The facility […]

Post Carbon Tackles T. Boone

Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century has been requested by local, state and federal agencies, media and concerned citizens worldwide. Since it’s release less than three weeks ago, the report has been downloaded over 11,000 times. Today we are releasing three supplements to the report that we hope you’ll find of interest […]

We’re all peak oilers now

There has been a distinct increase in dialogue around energy in the last year, and I hear a growing acceptance of the idea that we live on a finite planet and will either reduce the amount of energy we demand from this planet, or hit some version of a brick wall when that demand cannot […]

Tapping Salt Water’s Energy Potential

It’s rare to run across a novel form of renewable energy that hasn’t already been touted as the Next Big Thing and the potential savior of humanity. Work on harnessing salinity gradient power, one aspect of which is also known as “osmotic power”, has proceeded in relative obscurity, with only one demonstration-scale installation that I’m […]

New shocks in Japan as operating nuclear power unit forced to shut down

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s request May 6 to Chubu Electric to shut all operations at its sole Hamaoka nuclear power plant is causing waves of aftershocks at multiple levels, at the prospect of further worsening power shortages across the country. Kan’s request, which was the first of its kind and not legally binding, was […]

London Expands its Electric Car Charging Points

London’s electric car charging points are in for a big boost. There are 250 publicly-accessible charge points now. By 2012 there will be 1,300 across the city. There will be more charging points than gas stations, which is quite a coup when you think about it. Photo : B. Alter There are currently 17,000 hybrid […]

The US and the Five Stages of Collapse

Interview on WMNF FM, Tampa, Florida Some excerpts: First you have financial collapse, which is basically the volume of debt that has to be taken on in order for the economy to continue functioning, cannot continue. We’re seeing that right now in Greece, we’re probably going to see that in Japan, we’re definitely at a […]

China, not U.S., key to global oil demand

What’s more important to world oil demand – gasoline prices in the U.S. that are nearly $4 a gallon, or power rationing in China? To Americans, of course, it’s the former. But to world oil markets, the latter may be a far more significant indication of where oil prices will be heading this summer. At […]

Peak Oil, Peak Water, Peak Resources, Peak Planet: Building a Currency for the 21st Century

In a planet running out of resources, the most important public policy tool may be the measuring stick. This becomes important to remember amid the remarkable swings of pessimism and guarded optimism we’ve seen over the past two years on the ability of individual nations to scale-up the sustainable energy agenda. COP15 in Copenhagen 2009 […]

Fracturing fear

A vote in France to ban hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells brings new attention to fear as an element in the making of energy policy. France imports 98% of its gas supply. It professes to lead a geopolitical block trying to cut dependence on gas from Russia. It ranks second among European countries […]

Peak Oil and Economic Contraction

Overview of Peak oil and its implications For further information: http://poaec.blogspot.com/

Climate Change Doesn’t Matter Anymore

My provocative title represents the increasing awareness that we don’t need to believe in climate change to do the right thing when it comes to energy. Of course, climate change is a real threat to us and our environment. But there are many highly valid reasons to become more energy efficient, conserve energy through behavior […]

Higher break-even price for Saudi oil sets new normal

In 2003, the breakeven for Saudi crude oil was $30 per barrel. It’s now reported to be $85 and expected to rise to $110 by 2015, according to the latest MarketWatch article. n/a Now the really bad news from a trader‘s perspective: Seldom do prices trade below breakeven; and, if they do, not for very […]

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