Polar Scientist Charts Melting Caused by Climate Change

Expects accelerated thawing to continue unless greenhouse-gas emissions are reduced. Michael Gooseff follows water to the end of the earth. The Pennsylvania State University hydrologist works in remote regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, where ice and frozen ground are thawing. He expects polar warming and melting to continue at an accelerating pace if no […]

U.S. May Ship More Coal, Raising EU Supply

The U.S. may increase coal exports, further boosting supply of the commodity in Europe, Macquarie Group Ltd. (MQG) said. “A big push” to encourage natural-gas burning in the U.S. may drive up coal exports to Europe, China and India, said Hayden Atkins, an analyst in London at Macquarie’s commodities unit. The closing of Germany’s nuclear […]

Kuwait oil exports to peak in 2011: IMF

Higher revenue to boost GDP by 5% while inflation will rise Kuwait is projected to net its highest ever oil export earnings in 2011 because of a surge in crude prices and the this will widen its real GDP by nearly five per cent through the year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has  said. From […]

Thousands Riot in Southwest China Town

Thousands of residents of a town in southwest China took to the streets on Thursday, smashing police vehicles in the latest protest by citizens angered by the rough handling of local officials, according to news reports. The protest in Qianxi County, Guizhou province, was the latest of thousands of brief, local riots and demonstrations that […]

Coal and Ethanol Are Not Alternative Energy Policy

The domestic alternative energy policy in the US seems to rotate on semantics and adding words to other words to make it look like something is going on. However, the truth of the matter is, energy policy is as defunct as ever and on most fronts the US is lagging far behind. Mostly it is […]

The Crash Course – Collapse Peak Oil, Economy …

Crash Course Peak Oil – Economy – Banking – Economic Collapse By Chris Martenson

Free Event – How to Transition Your Community

Join us on August 17 for a free informational online seminar with Paul and Sarah Edwards. We will explore how to enable small communities to prepare for the economic and environmental changes that many are already facing. Paul and Sarah have worked towards a sustainable future for their community, and they will share how you […]

Is The World Going Bankrupt?

Europe and the US are hopelessly over-indebted. The crisis that started in the US real estate sector in 2007 has devastated state finances on both sides of the Atlantic and is threatening to wreck the euro and trigger a second global downturn. The world lacks the political leadership needed to end the turmoil. The fear is back, in the […]

Former Planned Parenthood exec praises China’s ‘one-child’ policy

On Tuesday, a former Executive Vice President of Planned Parenthood World Population in Los Angeles praised China’s “one child” policy in a letter to the editor of the Napa Valley Register Newspaper. Offering his support for the Obama administration’s recent decision to cover birth control and drugs that can cause abortion, Norman Fleishman condemned the […]

One year of Solar Power

Mid 2009. Depression. Ground flat interest rates. Oppressing unemployment. What better time than now to invest on tangible assets? That was the mindset that lead me to consider investing in Solar Photo-Voltaics (PV). I started studying the subject in order to become a micro-producer, taking advantage of newly passed legislation. Coincidence or not, a family […]

Conocophillips ups estimate of China oil spill

ConocoPhillips China, a subsidiary of the Houston-based oil company ConocoPhillips , said on Friday that as much as 2,500 barrels of oil and mud leaked from an oilfield in China’s northern Bohai Bay. A recent survey at the C platform of Penglai 19-3 oil field identified more oil-based drilling mud on the sea floor than […]

New High for Saudi Oil Production

According to OPEC, Saudi Arabian production increased to 9.75mbd in July.  This is a modern record (though they produced more back in the 1980-1981 timeframe).  However, they didn’t achieve the 10mbd that press reports were suggesting back in June.  Whether because the press had the target wrong, or because they couldn’t quite manage the goal, we are […]

Recession: We are hitting an economic growth ceiling caused by limited cheap oil

People wonder what has been happening recently, with wildly gyrating financial markets and government debt problems. It seems to me that we are bumping up against an economic growth ceiling, brought on by a limited supply of cheap oil. As a result, we appear to be headed back into recession. Debt deleveraging can be expected […]

UK Riots’ Resource and Cultural Roots: an in-the-trenches report

I have stayed in Hackney, a poor section of London where rioting has been going on. It was a squat turned into a quasi-public word-of-mouth home, shared with revolving travelers and seekers. In the neighborhood I noticed anti-landlord graffiti. I was impressed by the conviviality and mutual aid of the squat. Needless to say, there […]

TEDxBloomington — Keith Johnson — “Food Security and Resilence”

Keith Johnson was raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (where he learned at an early age he was related to Johnny Appleseed), and has been a commercial landscaper, stonemason, and organic gardener since 1976 in places as varied as subtropical Bay Area of California, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Michigan, & the mountains of W. […]

Can Jeremy Grantham Profit from Ecological Mayhem?

Sitting in a Panera in Boston’s financial district in early July with Jeremy Grantham, I suddenly found myself considering how I might safeguard my children’s and notional grandchildren’s future by somehow engineering the U.S. annexation of Morocco. Grantham, the founder and chief strategist of the asset-management firm GMO, was reading aloud from a rough draft […]

The Energy Crisis:Future Directions for India’s Energy Polic

from Systems Research Institute

Despite the price fall, a well-known bull still sees a tight market

With crude markets down anywhere from $20/b to $30/b over the last weeks–depending on where you start to measure–it’s always interesting to see what the rock-hard bulls at Barclays Capital have to say about the market. Barclays has been bullish on the fundamentals of oil for several years, seeing worldwide demand growth and an inability […]

Hydromimicry: Water as a model for technology and management

Abstract The concept of hydromimicry is related to the better known one of biomimicry, which is the process of applying biological designs or processes to human solutions. By analogy, hydromimicry is based on emulating water’s natural patterns, rhythms, and behaviors in the design of human products, technologies, and management strategies. Although the primary focus is […]

US Cuts Funding for ITER Fusion Project

Physicists are still scratching their heads and shaking their fists two weeks after Congress unexpectedly slashed support for big science projects, including the multibillion-dollar ITER fusion-power experiment and the yet-to-be-designed International Linear Collider. The Energy Department is still trying to figure out what to do, but hundreds of layoffs already have been announced – and […]

Number-crunching the world population and resource shortages

As the global population hurtles towards the 7 billion mark this year, people are asking whether the world has enough natural resources and food supplies to sustain that many of us. But a book due out in September – ‘The No-Nonsense Guide to World Population’ – says when it comes to resource shortages people should […]

Obama Is Implementing Plans For War Throughout the Middle East Created 10 Years Ago by the Neocons

Politico reports: The U.S. has dramatically ratcheted up the pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad, slapping new sanctions on key companies Wednesday as White House press secretary Jay Carney said the leader is guilty of “heinous actions” and the country would be better off without him. *** President Barack Obama and other administration officials have […]

EIA Analysis: Commercial crude oil stocks tumble despite SPR release

NYMEX crude futures jumped Wednesday, brushing off big losses in equities in favor of a surprise stock draw reported by the US Energy Information Administration. Crude stocks fell 7.719 million barrels. Some of that draw came from an SPR release, but a sizable portion was a result of higher refinery runs. Linda Rafield’s take on […]

The Missing Truth in the BP Oil Disaster

More than a year after a private company operating in public waters retched 170 million gallons of crude and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico, creating an environmental catastrophe, we still lack reliable statistics on the BP oil disaster’s impact on the health of residents. I recently spent several days […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: Technology

Let’s face it! The whole fossil fuel thing – widespread use of coal, oil, and natural gas could not have happened without technological advances. Without the steam engine, the coal age would have been limited to a handful of people living near surface coal seams and burning coal for heat and cooking, and perhaps a […]

Rebranding Canadian Oil and Gas: “The Ethical Choice”

“Governments must not only do well; they must also be seen as doing well.” – Source/author undetermined. Caeteris Paribus*, Who Has a Tougher Job – A Business Executive or a Government Executive? Woodrow Wilson: Quintessential Public Administrator At a graduate Marketing Management course which I attended in the early 90’s back in my country of […]

Communicating the financial crisis in 7 easy steps

Young people in Greece and Spain are worried, angry, and question- ing the financial power structure that is causing economic hardship in their countries. The financial system has shown over the last few years that it has the potential to wreak havoc in all of our lives. How do we make sure that we find […]

IEA trims 2011 oil demand forecast

The International Energy Agency has trimmed its forecast for global oil demand this year, saying increased evidence of economic slowdown has raised fears of a double-dip recession. The Paris-based agency says in its monthly report that global oil demand this year will be 89.5 million barrels a day on average, or 60,000 barrels a day […]

A Vision For The Post-Peak Oil Future (Pt 5)

“We have designed and built the infrastructure of our transport, electricity, food, and heating systems to suit the unique characteristics of oil, natural gas, and coal; changing to different energy sources will require the redesign of many aspects of those systems.” [1] Of the many great challenges to be faced as we enter a future […]

Stay calm, learn skills to survive

The turmoil in global stock market is just the latest indicator that business as usual is over. Financial scandals, social upheaval, environmental catastrophes, pointless wars, record unemployment, government and personal debt, peak oil, peak water, peak soil – pick your choice. The unsustainable merry-go-round that is the North American way of life is coming to […]

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