Peak Oil

The price of photovoltaics is falling. Panels are cheaper than ever. They’re quiet and clean.

What determines the price of gasoline? Speculators? Evil conspiring oil companies? Well, actually no.

Everyone’s got something to say about the environment. Hands are wrung in response to stories of melting ice shelves, rising sea levels, escalating species extinctions and imminent runaway global warming.

Type the phrase ‘peak oil’ into any popular internet search engine, and you will not be short of results to wade through.

Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 Solar Panels To Boost Property Prices Joe Romm argues that “as peak oil kicks in and the reality of human-caused climate change becomes painfully clear, energy efficiency, geothermal heat pumps, solar panels and the like will increasingly be seen as a desirable if not essential …

Transition in Germany is going on well, with another successful training and a further one coming up on 9 October in Bielefeld, so if youa TMre interested do get in touch with them.

Many investors find the prospect of selecting individual stocks simply too daunting.

Rob Hopkins is a smart guy, and even though he’s garbled a fair number of the details, his post raises useful points regarding some of the core issues I’ve tried to bring up in the Green Wizards posts.

Wouldn’t it be funny if we spent so long arguing about what to do about climate change that we ran out of cheap oil first? No, it wouldn’t really, it would be catastrophic.

Peak oil has happened or will happen some time around this year, and its consequences could threaten the continued survival of democratic governments, says a secret Germany military report that was leaked online.

By most estimates , it costs less than $5 per barrel to pull oil out of the Saudi Arabian desert.

Hello and welcome to Grist Talks. I’m your host Mary Bruno, and I’m joined today by my guests: Lisa Margonelli, author of the 2007 book Oil on the Brain and currently the director of Energy Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation where she explores the promise and possibility of a post-oil world.

The purpose of this series on peak oil investments has been to highlight companies outside the oil sector that are likely to benefit from increasing oil prices.

In this writer’s opinion, one of the greatest attributes of the free market is the way it encourages innovation in the face of economic turmoil.

Introduction This essay provides a framework for understanding the ideological roots of the current global crisis that I believe is more useful than the now tired Left Right political spectrum.

ENERGY world is under the spell of two distinct, yet contradictory, schools of thought.

On Wednesday, August 25, I gave a presentation called How limited global oil supply may affect climate change policies at the MIT-NESCAUM Endicott House Symposium on climate change.

Friday, 27 August 2010, 9:49 am Press Release: Colmar Brunton Seven out of ten Kiwis want Govt to prepare for peak oil Research from Colmar Brunton released today finds the Government’s draft energy strategy does not deliver the action that the majority of New Zealanders want for securing access to affordable alternatives to petrol and diesel in …

No more ‘politics as usual’ should mean having enough courage to tackle the sickness of mindless consumption.

Biodiesel, Biochar & Biodiversity in Costa Rica — An Example of Small-Scale, Locally-Appropriate Action This is a guest post by Ryan King.