Seems like every week I get emails from yet another group that is “creating a network of local groups” for social change. Or expanding into a new reskilling class series. Or cultivating a citywide vision plan. Each of them valid in their focus, each one tackling their own aspect of The Great Turning. And each […]...
Saudi Arabia’s natural gas reserves rose last year as it explored for the fuel in the Red Sea and tapped shale gas to free more crude oil for export, according to the kingdom’s state-run oil company. Saudi reserves increased to 288 trillion cubic feet of gas last year from 285 trillion in 2012, Saudi Arabian […]...
“It’s always amazing when a United Nations report that has global ramifications comes out with little fanfare.” So starts an article in Forbes talking about the most recent UNSCEAR report on the consequences of the Fukushima accident in Japan. Three years after the accident, UNSCEAR, the United Nations body mandated to assess and report levels […]...
Iranian oil exports for April were down by about 180,000 barrels per day and consistent with a gradual decline, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. IEA, which has headquarters in Paris, said in its monthly market report Iran exported about 1.11 million barrels of oil per day in April, down from the 20-month peak of […]...
In California, the prototype of a combined social, political and technical solution has been launched which promises to unlock the food system crisis. ...
The architect should come in a humble way and say: “How can I support the life that is happening here?” This is the only way to be sustainable. ...
If everyone who touched food (including both farm workers and farmers) made enough money to pay for high quality food out of their wages, our food system would be on its way to greater fairness and long-term economic viability. ...
“The subsidies we give fossil energy companies are a rounding error relative to the subsidies fossil energy give to society.” ...
Politically, America may still have a long way to go before everybody’s on the same page with regard to anthropogenic climate change and the imperative to take immediate action. ...
We spoke with Chris Nelder in Extraenvironmentalist episde #76. This is the first part of a transcript prepared by EE listener Scott. ...
The Internet is no longer just a “virtual” public square—it’s the actual one. ...
For a country suffering from economic devastation and political upheaval, Greece is not accustomed to bursts of optimism. ...
Our request is simple: we are asking YOU — activated citizens, community organizers, students, as well as anyone who cares about our future and our relationship to the natural world — to help us get the word out in a BIG way. ...
A midweek update. New York and London futures prices have risen about $2 a barrel this week closing at $102.37 and $110.19 respectively on Wednesday. ...
Some 15 years ago when the current concept of peak oil was posited, it was all going to be simple. Somewhere in the early part of the 21st century oil production was going to reach a peak and start to decline. Shortages would develop and prices would spiral upwards. But we should know by now […]...
Enter banned: seventeen meters deep and several football fields is Europe’s biggest construction site, you may visit only with a special permit for a short time and only under supervision and then only from the top. The walls of the excavation are protected against demolition concrete, inside the huge cranes around heave tons of steel […]...
* Global oil demand growth forecast raised slightly for 2014 * IEA demand forecast higher than estimates from OPEC, U.S. * Cuts estimate for 2014 non-OPEC supply growth by 100,000 bpd * Estimate of 2014 demand for OPEC crude by 200,000 bpd (Adds detail throughout) OPEC needs to pump more oil this year to […]...
‘The way to fix the problem is not to turn the volume up on the evidence.… ‘The way to deal with the problem is to change that meaning, to remove what makes it threatening to other people. It’s about framing it in a way that doesn’t antagonize or come across as an assault on one […]...
Peak oil theory rests on the idea that petroleum extraction will one day reach a peak—this is a fundamental truth, since petroleum is a scarce and limited natural resource. Ever since this idea was introduced in the 1950s, experts have been frantically trying to determine exactly when that peak will be reached and how much time we have afterwards […]...
The Bakken production data, as well as the All North Dakota production data just came out with their production numbers for March 2014. Bakken production was up 914,003 bp/d, up 25,091 bp/d from February. All North Dakota production was 977,061 bp/d, up 24,006 bp/d from February. That was a new record for the Bakken but not […]...