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Energy Bulletin . Changes coming to Energy Bulletin soon... . peak energy in the news: . Staff Oil Depletion Analysis Centre G8 leaders meeting last weekend in Camp David will have been cheered by the recent slide in oil prices albeit that the weakening in price is largely a consequence of the increasingly dire economic news. Nevertheless the group issued a statement to the effect that should the price start heading back in the other direction they will be calling on the IEA to take action... archived May 25 2012 . Andrew McKay Southern Limits Oil pundits and politicians are pushing the idea of United States energy independence due largely to the current boom in hydraulic fracturing. But behind the rhetoric is there any truth to these claims archived May 25 2012 . Tom Whipple ASPO-USA A midweekly roundup of peak oil news including:-Developments this week archived May 24 2012 . Kjell Aleklett President of ASPO International Dagens Nyheter and Aleklett's Energy Mix During the last six years the worlds production of oil has overall been flat. From 2005 up to and including 2010 annual it was around 81.5 Mb/d with top production in 2010 at 82.1 Mb/d. World oil production has never been greater than in that period. We describe the maximum rate of oil production from an oilfield region or the world as Peak Oil. archived May 24 2012 . John Michael Greer The Archdruid Report There are times at least for me when the fate in store for industrial society can be seen with more than the usual clarity. I'm thinking just now of the time I looked out a train window and saw an abandoned factory not yet twenty years old with foot-high saplings rising incongruously from the gutter around the roof; or of another time in a weekend flea market here in Cumberland when I found a kid's book on space travel I'd loved as a child flipped through the pages and found myself face to face with the gap between the shining future we were supposed to have by now and the mess that was actually waiting for us when we got here. archived May 24 2012 . Gregor Macdonald chrismartenson.com Theres been a lot of excitement in the past year over the rise of North American oil production and the promise of increased oil production across the whole of the Americas in the years to come. National security experts and other geo-political observers have waxed poetic at the thought of this emerging hemispheric strength in energy supply. Whats less discussed however is the negligible effect this supply swing is having on lowering the price of oil due to the fact that combined with OPEC production aggregate global production remains mostly flat. But theres another component to this new belief in the changing global landscape for oil: the dawning awareness that OPECs power has finally gone into decline. archived May 24 2012 . Lucas Chanel and Thomas Spencer The Oil Drum Between January 2002 and August 2008 the nominal oil price rose from 19.7 to 133.4 a barrel. This led to a large increase in oil revenues for oil exporters and a deterioration of the current account for oil importers. Between 2002 and 2006 net capital outflows from oil exporters grew by 348 becoming the largest global source of net capital outflows in 2006 McKinsey 2007. Capital outflows from oil exporters therefore played an important role in the global liquidity glut during the build-up to the US subprime crisis. archived May 24 2012 . Staff Energy Bulletin -Busting the carbon and cost myths of Germany's nuclear exit-The energy transition juggernaut-Clean energy as culture war archived May 23 2012 . Staff Energy Bulletin -Government backtracks on fracking-Investor's concerns lead to calls for fracking changes-Fracking In New York: For Farmers Gas Drilling Could Mean Salvation-- Or Ruin archived May 23 2012 . Richard W. Caperton ThinkProgress Weve all heard that wind energy is too expensive and that massive investments in wind will drive up electricity rates for consumers.This argument is based on the belief that wind energy is more expensive on a per kilowatt-hour basis than traditional fossil fuels.While even this premise is up for debate for example wind is now the least expensive option for new generation for some utilities in the upper Midwest the bigger problem is that this argument ignores how electricity markets actually work. archived May 23 2012 . Staff Energy Bulletin -Read Chapter 2 "Peak Oil" in Peeking at Peak Oil-Prepare to celebrate OPEC's demise-U.K. Climate Plan Set To Curb Impact Of Oil Shocks Report Shows archived May 22 2012 . Stuart Staniford Early Warning The EIA helpfully produces a breakdown of the global liquid fuel supply into components. This allows us to distinguish change in the supply of "oil" - narrowly defined as crude oil plus condensates hydrocarbons which come out of the ground as liquid - from changes in other things natural gas "liquids" most of which are actually gases like ethane propane and butane ethanol and refinery volume changes. archived May 22 2012 . Ugo Bardi Cassandra's legacy CaSiO3 + CO2 -> CaCO3 + SiO2 The silicate weathering reaction is what keeps "Gaia" alive - better said it is Gaia. And don't make the mistake of thinking that Gaia is a goddess and that somehow she cares about us. No it is more correct to say that Gaia doesn't give a damn about us - which is what you'd expect from a chemical reaction after all. It is us who have been tampering with this chemical reaction and it will be us who will have to face the consequences. In the end we can't hope to force the planet to do what we want it to do. So we must learn to live with the flow of the Earth's cycles. For that we must know a little chemistry. But more than chemistry we must learn our limits otherwise we won't survive for long. archived May 21 2012 . Ellen Cantarow TomDispatch If the world can be seen in a grain of sand watch out. AsWisconsinites are learning there's money and misery in sand -- and ifyou've got the right kind an oil company may soon be at your doorstep. archived May 21 2012 . Maggie Koerth-Baker boingboing Energy journalist and author Maggie Koerth-Baker interviewed about her book Before the Lights Go Out at Minnesota Public Radio's "Bright Ideas". A good intro into why there are no 'silver bullets'. archived May 21 2012 . Tom Whipple ASPO-USA A weekly review including:-Oil and the Global Economy-The EU Crisis-Iran-Quote of the Week-Briefs archived May 21 2012 . Kurt Cobb Resource Insights One fact ought to tell you all you need to know about the risks faced by homeowners signing leases for natural gas drilling on their property: Wells Fargo & Company both the largest home mortgage lender in the United States and a major lender to the country's second largest producer of natural gas Chesapeake Energy Corp. refuses to make home loans for properties encumbered with natural gas drilling leases. archived May 20 2012 . Kjell Aleklett Aleklett's Energy Mix It feels as though we now have the first informed American report on the oil issue. One is struck by how well they describe the problem that ASPO and my research group have attempted to raise awareness of during the last 10 years. That this group of Americans perceive reality in a different way than is common in the USA is presumably because they are diplomats who have been outside the USAs borders and have studied their nation from a different perspective. archived May 20 2012 . Calvin Sloan Con Carlitos Sounding the alarm early is far better than not sounding the alarm at all. In fact those who do are the true pioneers of ecological conciousness. Heinberg may be early or he may not be yet he has engaged us all in a very necessary conversation arguably the most important conversation my generation will have in our lifetimes. archived May 18 2012 . Michael D. Yates Cheap Motels and Hot Plates Apollo is a small town in western Pennsylvania part of the old coal and steel belt that surrounds Pittsburgh. The people who grew up there have learned what harm the corporations who employed them and their relatives and friends have done and continue to do. Men women and children were poisoned by that uranium fuel plant and that glass plant. Yet for the most part they ignore this content to contemplate instead their warm and fuzzy memories as one person put it. archived May 19 2012 . related news: . Erik Curren Transition Voice The local Transition group's brand new community garden needed raised beds. So we tried a couple different ways to get them. archived May 25 2012 . Staff Energy Bulletin -Pedaling to Prosperity: Biking Saves U.S. Riders Billions A Year-New York's New Marketing FAIL-Paris: "the bus stop of the future"-Long commute time linked with poor health new study shows archived May 23 2012 . Ralph Nader The Nader Page Youve heard of CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebooks 900 users exchanging gossip and other personal pleasantries or worries through a medium that inflates narcissism. Youve probably not heard of Ben Rose of the New York City Materials Exchange Development Program NYC MEDP or the equivalent organizations in your communities providing services to thousands of charitable non-profit groups which promote the donating and reusing of materials to avoid incineration landfilling and recycling. archived May 25 2012 . John Wiseman Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute Climate Code Red Contrary to the views of some ill-informed journalists and politicians there are many places where the international momentum is swinging rapidly towards -- not away from -- a swift transition to a post-carbon economy. archived May 25 2012 . Sharon Astyk Casaubon's Book So with the return of spring comes the return of Occupy which by and large is probably a good thing.OWS deserves some props for drawing attention to inequity for bringing radicalism back and for showing a very complacent corporate and political leadership that the people still have bite in them.Generally speaking I approve of Occupy. One of the things I don't approve of however catchy as the framing is is the "1 vs. 99" rhetoric.The reason I don't is that I think it functionally masks really deep inequities -- by putting the second percentile together with the 92 percentileit implies a fundamental symmetry between people who are truly and deeply poor and those who are more than comfortable. archived May 24 2012 . Chuck Burr restorationseeds.com Germinating your seeds is fun and easy however methods vary by plant type. Seeds of annual plants have a shallow dormancy and do not need a winter to germinate they only live one season. Annuals generally are buried to a depth equal to the size of the seed in moist well drained soil. Some like tomatoes and peppers require warm soil or a heat mat to germinate. archived May 24 2012 . David Jones The Daly News Have you ever considered the question: what is life If we are aiming for a new economic system that will preserve and enhance life rather than the current system which more often than not seems to destroy and degrade life perhaps we should consider what life is and how it is made possible. I recall learning about "living things" in high school biology classes but always found the definitions of these "living things" to be somewhat vague. Let me try a physicist's definition then which might feel unfamiliar at first. A living thing is a kind of low-entropy-maintenance machine: a configuration of differentiated parts that succeeds in performing complex interdependent functions for a prolonged period of time. archived May 24 2012 . Ellen Brown Alternet In the dark age of Kali Yuga money rules; and it is through banks that the moneyed interests have gotten their power.Banking in an age of greed is fraught with usury fraud and gaming the system for private ends.But there is another way to do banking; the neighborly approach of George Bailey in the classic movie It's a Wonderful Life. Rather than feeding off the community banking can feed the community and the local economy. archived May 23 2012 . Gregory Trencher and Masaru Yarime Our World 2.0 The sustainability crisis has provoked an unexpected and dramatic response from academia. Until now higher education institutions have tended to focus on sustainability within their own borders. This has predominantly been via sustainability education research and designing green orcarbon neutral campuses. Yet borders between society and academia are dissolving. archived May 23 2012 . Gene Logsdon The Contrary Farmer Mulligan Books I was so gratified to see Wendell Berrys remarks in a recent interview Wendell Berry: Landsman with Jim Leach in Humanities magazine May/June 2012 where he makes a point about economics that is overlooked in these days when divisiveness rules the political roost. The general view is that the economic battle is between capitalism and socialism but as Wendell observes both are industrial systems and they have made the same mistakes in some ways.Both have ignored the propriety of scale and the standard of ecological health. archived May 23 2012 . Shaun Chamberlin Dark optimism Off the back of my recent post on Transition Money this excellent new short film 97 Owned explains the privatised debt-based money system we currently use.The one that allows UK banks to simply create around 200000000000 200bn a year and use it as they see fit -- without any oversight -- to shape the economy and control politics causing crises creating inflation and pushing house prices out of reach. Most of us work for money but these people are magicking it up and then using it to pay others to do whatever they please.How is this different from legalised slavery archived May 23 2012 . Ellen Brown Web of Debt blog Why does there always seem to be enough money for military expansion prisons bank bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy but not enough for educationor for jobs housing healthcare or old age pensionsThese are not welfare but are part of the social contract for which we pay taxes and make social security payments. archived May 23 2012 . Shannon Hayes Yes Magazine Gainful unemployment is slightly different from radical homemaking although the two strategies used together make for a dynamic synergy. In radical homemaking someone from the household may have a normal job while someone else in the household works to keep living expenses low by helping the household to produce more than it consumes. Gainful unemployment is a strategy that Bob and I had to figure into the mix in order to survive as it became clear early on that neither one of us wanted to go out to a job but we still needed to pay some bills. archived May 23 2012 . Jay Walljasper On the Commons The single biggest reason for Dutch success in making biking safe and popular is their policy of separating bike lanes from moving vehicles on busy streets either by physical barriers such as curbs or bright painted markings on the pavement. archived May 23 2012 . Staff Energy Bulletin Political economist activist and writer Gar Alperovitz and Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg discuss 'Equality and Inequality in a Shrinking Economy--Strategies and Consequences'. This is a recording of video chat recorded May 22 2012. archived May 10 2012 . Staff Energy Bulletin - The Chelsea flower show is nature for the 1- Randers: Dont teach your children to love the wilderness. Discuss- Dont 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 archived May 22 2012 . Michael Shuman Post Carbon Institute What happens next in the economy -- the nation's the state's and Seattle's -- no longer lies in the hands of Capitol Hill politicians the Federal Reserve or even the boards of companies like Microsoft and Starbucks. It depends on entrepreneurs like Jason Brown who has big ambitions for his small business. Jason recently opened a grocery store in the heart of downtown Bellevue called Your Local Market.It combines the best features of Whole Foods like high-quality local and organic products with down-to-earth prices and familiar brands of low cost cleaning products. archived May 22 2012 . Stephanie Buglione Nourishing the Planet A new USAID project Permaculture Design for Orphans and Vulnerable Children is focused on providing long-term food security solutions to orphaned and vulnerable children OVC that are coping with the challenges of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Permaculture is their means to achieving this food security. archived May 22 2012 . Gar Alperovitz Alternet Just beneath the surface of traditional media attention something vital has been gathering force and is about to explode into public consciousness. The "New Economy Movement" is a far-ranging coming together of organizations projects activists theorists and ordinary citizens committed to rebuilding the American political-economic system from the ground up. archived May 21 2012 . Stuart Jeanne Bramhall Daily Censored The term economic relocalization which has been around about four years describes the global movement of loosely knit Transition Towns and other grassroots networks working to strengthen local and regional economies and systems of food and energy production. I myself was unacquainted with the term until I came across it in the promotional materials for the Economics of Happiness. archived May 22 2012 . news by category Resources . Regions . Related Issues . featured content Authors . Publishers . Media Publishers . Reviews . Web chats . Local Dollars Local Sense . In Local Dollars Local Sense PCI Fellow and local economy pioneer Michael Shuman shows investors including the nearly 99 who are unaccredited how to put their money into building local businesses and resilient regional economies . YOU ARE HERE: The Oil Journey - from PCI . editor's picks . The Post Carbon Reader . A must-read collection by some of the worlds most provocative thinkers on the key issues shaping our new century. . . The New Oil Age Poster December 2010 . . . Content on this site is subject to our . . Energy Bulletin is a program of . a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable resilient communities.

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