Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
At the end of March, when Brent traded at around $125 per barrel, Saudi oil minister Ali al Naimi wrote a sharply worded article in the FT claiming there was no justification for such high oil prices, and Brent has since slumped to $100, which happens to be the Saudi target price. The decline is likely to be temporary, however, and Mr al Naimi soon shown to be as influential as King Canute…
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The EU crisis
-Falling prices
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
A lot of money and effort is spent in order to find technological solutions for storing the energy produced by renewables, but very little to understand what the real problem is. How much energy storage do we really need? And is it true that if we don’t have 100% energy storage then renewables are useless, as some people say?
Jeff Rubin is currently touring his new book, The End Of Growth. As the former Chief Economist for CIBC World Markets he brings an intimate knowledge of financial markets and how they work to the peak oil/end of growth community populated by other venerable thinkers such as Richard Heinberg, Chris Martenson and John Michael Greer.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The EU crisis
-Iran
-Retail gasoline prices
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
-Busting the carbon and cost myths of Germany’s nuclear exit
-The truth about Germany’s nuclear phase-out
-Germany sets new solar power record, institute says
-Germany Stalled on the Expressway to a Green Future
A video diary from the The International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas, Montreal, including video interviews with Juliet Shor, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and Gail Tverberg.
Josh Farley explains the concepts and implications of money as debt, GDP as a measure of the economy, and economic degrowth in this video interview recorded at the Montreal Degrowth Conference.
A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
– The Chelsea flower show is nature for the 1%
– Randers: “Don’t teach your children to love the wilderness”. Discuss
– Don’t Put Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa
– The power of bread: let us eat politics
– Kenyan TV show ploughs lone furrow in battle to improve rural livelihoods
A weekly review including:
-Oil and the Global Economy
-The EU Crisis
-Iran
-Quote of the Week
-Briefs
