Monthly Archives: March 2010
Hydrocarbon “lock-in” in universities
How do we account for our growing inability to reconcile the “business as usual story” with every day facts? A look at the dynamics of academia provides an insight.
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The “undulating plateau”
The idea that energy descent will be preceded by a series matching falls and recoveries does not fit well with our intuitive sense of how complex things work.
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Last week, the UK Government held a work shop, entitled “Policy Response to potential future oil supply constraints”. Transition Network’s Rob Hopkins summarises it as “potentially the day when the UK government finally started to ‘get’ peak oil“.[1] As recently … Continue reading
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A smaller world
Leading Canadian economist, Jeff Rubin, sets out the premise of his book “Why your World is about to get a whole lot smaller” in this 45 minute video from 2009′s The Business of Climate Change Conference. We aren’t running out … Continue reading
The story of cap + trade
I have to admit, I waver on Climate Change. But the methodology employed to subvert climate change intervention, and in particular the distractions created by them to real action, are equally applicable to energy security interventions and efforts to expose … Continue reading
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