Posts Tagged ‘Peak Oil’

• Readings: Tuesday 16 February 2010
  Gregor Macdonald, February 16th, 2010 at 5:37 pm, Comments: 0

  Britain and the PIGS: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph.co.uk.
  Can living near a train station save you from foreclosure?: Mary Wisniewski, The Chicago Sun-Times.

  The Next Crisis-Prepare for Peak Oil: Patience Wheatcroft, Wall Street Journal Europe.
  India Worries as China Builds Ports in South Asia: Vikas Bajaj, The New York Times.

  Algae to solve the Pentagon’s jet fuel problem: Suzanne Goldberg, [...]

• Podcast Picks: Friday 12 February 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, February 12th, 2010 at 11:57 am, Comments: 0

  Country Driving in China: interview with Peter Hessler, WBUR On Point Radio.
  Dow to Triple Digits: interview with Robert Prechter, Frisby’s Bulls and Bears Radio.
  Building a Planet with a Future: Alex Steffen via KUOW’s Speaker Forum series, KUOW.org.
  The Vancouver Winter Olympics: cost and security for the Winter Games, Dianne Rhem WAMU Radio.
  Peak Oil and its Effect [...]

• Podcast Picks: Friday 29 January 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, January 29th, 2010 at 5:15 pm, Comments: 0

  Rethinking Energy Security: roundtable with IEA’s Fatih Birol, Davos Podcasts.
  Anglo-American financial situation: Bill Sharon and Mike Hampton, Frisby’s Bulls and Bears Radio.
  24 Hours in Tulsa: Officer Jay Chiarito-Mazarrella’s cult following for his Street Story podcasts, BBC World Service Documentaries.
  Big Slide (Act 1): James Kunstler’s latest – a Three Act Play on post crisis America, Kunstler [...]

• Readings: Tuesday 24 November 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, November 24th, 2009 at 11:48 am, Comments: 0

  What Peak Oil Can Do for Climate Change: Chris Nelder, Get Realist.
  Capital Journal – California’s Budget is Going to Be Dreadful: George Skelton, The Los Angeles Times.
  Early Data Suggest Suicides are Rising: Murray and McKay, The Wall Street Journal.
  Shifting the World to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy by 2030 – Here Are The Numbers – Jacobson [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Saturday 14 November 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, November 14th, 2009 at 11:39 pm, Comments: 0

  As the decade prepares to end I am not able to find a single example of serious scholarship that effectively refutes both peak oil as a general concept, or, that refutes the assertion that world oil production is currently peaking. To be quite honest, the field of energy studies is poorer not richer as a [...]