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In a finding that may speed efforts to conserve oil and intensify the search for alternative fuel sources, scientists in Kuwait predict that world conventional crude oil production will peak i

A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-China's foreign trade

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What was required for a growing economy, that was supposed to uplift all of modern humanity, is at root a false notion for the manipulated public: the overwhelming majority must work for others to enrich the few so that all of society benefits through unlimited expansion.

A great deal of discussion of renewable energy these days focuses on massive, centralized projects, relying on habits of thought we inherit from the departing age of cheap abundant energy. With the aid of two inventors and a glass of brandy, the Archdruid explains why thermodynamics suggests a radically different approach.

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As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent...Yet even within the environmental movement there is no unanimity on this thorny question: should the countries of the South have the right to increase their emissions as they industrialize and "develop"?

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The piece builds on Lynas’s previous much publicised conversion to nuclear power, arguing that if we are to apply the scientific rigour that underpins climate science to all other areas of life, in

Rolfe Winkler wrote some good stuff in the wake of the Make Markets Be Markets conference held in the Imperial capital last week. I'll get to that in a moment.

-US EPA chief concerned about gas drilling fluids
-Europe the new frontier in shale gas rush
-The true cost of shale gas production
-The Natural Gas Shopping Spree Quickens

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-Crunching the Numbers ($$$) on Bike Commuting
-Want to Foster Walking, Biking and Transit? You Need Good Parking Policy
-Streetfilms: Fixing the Great Mistake of Planning for Cars
-Korea unveils the ‘future of transport’ — the Online Electric Vehicle
-Streetfilms: Seattle’s Link Light Rail — The Start of Something Big

To my amusement, a slate colored junco hopped into a little pool of snow melt and splashed and fluttered around joyously. Looked like joy anyway. I had to laugh right out loud.

Despite the incessant media repetition that the economic situation is getting better, there is growing evidence that the economy is in fact growing worse. Where all this leaves oil prices is not yet clear.

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-Are we really going to let ourselves be duped into this solar panel rip-off?
-Solar panels are not fashion accessories
-There is no 'green treachery' in questioning this solar panel rip-off
I accept George Monbiot's £100 solar PV bet

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-Green fuels cause more harm than fossil fuels, according to report
-Chemists create biofuel from plant waste
-Seeking a More 'Poplar' Biofuel

-A March Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
-Transition on ‘One Planet’ on BBC World Service
-Transition Sunshine Coast delivers EDAP

-Public safety means more than just cops
-Dominican Authorities Approve Container Cities For Haiti Housing Relief