Peak Oil mentions in National Press - direct or indirect

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Permalink Reply by carolyn westlake on April 12, 2010 at 12:55

Good idea Nathan!. There is so much info on the net. We have got a link to some sites we think may be of interest to members and people checking here but putting info on peak oil together sounds good to me

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Permalink Reply by Ben on April 13, 2010 at 17:53

The US military is beginning to worry about potential oil shortages around 2015 - it commissioned a report which has just come out. For more see:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/11/peak-oil-production-...

More interestingly, the US Dept of Energy, which has always denied peak oil as a problem now admits there is a chance of problems from 2011 onwards, according to this interview with Le Monde

http://petrole.blog.lemonde.fr/2010/03/25/washington-considers-a-de...

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Surendran on April 14, 2010 at 15:22

The report associated with this video that Ben posted:
http://transitionhertford.ning.com/video/the-oil-crunch-wake-up-cal...
Is here:
http://peakoiltaskforce.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/final-report...

Oil Crunch = Peak Oil

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Surendran on April 21, 2010 at 19:48

Courtesy of Dick Warn:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/04/20/an-eruption-of-reality/
From Dick's email:
"George Monbiot's reflections on the dustcloud ('Eruption of Reason', attached or see monbiot.com) are reason enough - if other reasons were needed - to invent the Transition Movement. In particular he gives prominence to the US Joint Forces Command's comments on the imminence (2015) of likely gaps between oil demand and supply (= SERIOUS oil price rises). Do read it, and if you haven't already, join up with Transition Hertford, maybe at the Eco Film Festival this coming Saturday at Castle Hall Hertford from 11.30 - 9.30. It'll be great fun and there'll be much to learn there."

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Permalink Reply by Ben on April 30, 2010 at 15:40

Here's a report of a hustings event with Conservatives, Labour and Lib-Dem discussing peak oil... From journalist and author David Strahan's excellent blog...

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Permalink Reply by Iain Bagnall on May 3, 2010 at 20:10

There was one in the Guardian not so long ago:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/07/branson-warns-peak-o...

The Guardian have also featured one of my favourite blogs/sites, Mark Boyle's money-free justfortheloveofit.org:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2009/oct/28...

Here's a direct link to justfortheloveofit:
http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Surendran on May 13, 2010 at 15:46

There's an interesting tool for visualising and discovering connections around "peak oil" (or any term you think to search for) using 'silobreaker' that I've just discovered: Peak Oil Network.

I'd also recommend this presentation by Karen Blakeman that I've just attended where it was mentioned, if you want to do more with your web searching. A whole host of alternative search engines that work in different ways.

Hope you find this helpful. Nathan

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Surendran on May 13, 2010 at 15:56

Just used the silobreaker map to turn up this:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/204882-beyond-the-point-of-no-retur...

Nathan Surendran said:

There's an interesting tool for visualising and discovering connections around "peak oil" (or any term you think to search for) using 'silobreaker' that I've just discovered: Peak Oil Network.

I'd also recommend this presentation by Karen Blakeman that I've just attended where it was mentioned, if you want to do more with your web searching. A whole host of alternative search engines that work in different ways.

Hope you find this helpful. Nathan

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Permalink Reply by carolyn westlake on September 11, 2010 at 9:15

42 pages???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by don carlin on September 12, 2010 at 16:32

:-) I take yr point carolyn - have removed it, reworked it so it simply deals with peak oil and transition initiatives and thereby reduced it to 31 pages - however you might bear in mind that aricles I write in Open Office format use 1.5 line spacing, so 30 of my pages equal 20 of single spaced material - and that's about as small as I can reducett it to or it becomes much less of a history of both elements :-) actually, it's a space thing yes? There's lots of it between paragraphs, between words and between letters, so a true estimate is probably about 5 pages - mmm - does that make me a spaceman?
The offer still holds about the drink btw *smiles*

Attachments:

• Peak Oil & Transition Initiatives.odt, 90 KB

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Permalink Reply by carolyn westlake on October 13, 2010 at 21:55

Thanks Don for putting this up. Have just started reading it tonight as you managed to shorten it!! its a useful intro to what its all about and hopefully others will find it so. Thanks for taking the time to put it here:)

don carlin said:

:-) I take yr point carolyn - have removed it, reworked it so it simply deals with peak oil and transition initiatives and thereby reduced it to 31 pages - however you might bear in mind that aricles I write in Open Office format use 1.5 line spacing, so 30 of my pages equal 20 of single spaced material - and that's about as small as I can reducett it to or it becomes much less of a history of both elements :-) actually, it's a space thing yes? There's lots of it between paragraphs, between words and between letters, so a true estimate is probably about 5 pages - mmm - does that make me a spaceman?
The offer still holds about the drink btw *smiles*

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Permalink Reply by Iain Bagnall on October 14, 2010 at 6:32

We watched "The Age of Stupid" last week. If anyone hasn't seen it, I suggest you do so. It's a hypothetical look back from 2055 at these times of ignorance and head-in-the-sand ostrich-mentality with regard to the longer-term impact of our oil-based society. A vision of what our future could be if we do not act now.

Very thought-provoking, and one for next year's Film Festival, if it's within budget of course...

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