Energy Crunch: Will Britain get on board with fracking?
Energy round-up including EU climate targets, UK fracking plans, and peak oil.
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Agency on Demand? Holmgren, Hopkins, and the Historical Problem of Agency
All these questions are questions of agency: to what extent, if any, can humans be purposeful agents of historical change. This question, I will suggest, has up to now been given something like a free pass in much post-carbon discourse, for reasons that I will explain in depth later.
Crash on Demand: Welcome to the Brown Tech Future
Permaculture teaching and activism have always aimed to work with those already interested in changing their lives, land and communities for the better, rather than proselytising the disinterested majority.
End of the Road: How Australia’s auto industry ignored peak oil
This post will show how ignoring early peak oil warnings by Irish oil geologist Colin Campbell led to mis-investments in the Australian car industry.
Why EIA, IEA, and Randers’ 2052 Energy Forecasts are Wrong
What is correct way to model the future course of energy and the economy?…With different approaches, researchers can obtain vastly different indications. I will show that the real issue is most researchers are modeling the wrong limit.
Review of After Oil: SF Visions Of A Post-Petroleum World (short story collection edited by John Michael Greer)
‘After Oil: SF Visions Of A Post-Petroleum World’ is a short story collection edited by John Michael Greer.
Peak Oil Review – Jan 13
A weekly review including Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, China, Quote of the Week, The Briefs
Fears of global oil crisis aired at Transatlantic Energy Security Dialogue
On 10 December, Lt Col Davis and I convened video-linked gatherings in Washington and London of people who share our concerns about the risk of a global oil crisis.
Shale gas, peak oil and our future
De Wereld Morgen asks Richard Heinberg about the prospects for fracking in Europe.
Fracking headlines
•The Shale Oil Party Is Ending, Phibro’s Andy Hall Warns •Wyoming May Act to Plug Abandoned Wells as Natural Gas Boom Ends •Whither the world of energy prices during the next 12 months? •How long will the fracking boom last? •Colorado Communities Could Ban Fracking Under New Proposed Amendment •Bakken Crude Found More Dangerous to Ship Than Other Oil •Shale Gas: Killing Coal without Cutting CO2 •New York State Petroleum Council Speaks Out on Fracking
The Song of the Snallygaster
I’ve noticed, over the past few years, a growing lack of enthusiasm in the formerly raucous festivities that once marked the end of one year and the beginning of another.
Stabbing the beast
The two civilisation destroying situations we face are peak oil and climate change.