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Michigan's third peak oil conference of 2008 focuses on the specific challenges and solutions for Michigan and features 45 speakers including Richard Heinberg, Albert Bates, Michael Brownlee, Ellen Hodgeson Brown, Richard Gilbert, Stephanie Mills, Kurt Cobb, and Aaron Wissner. The event is schedule for the November 14 weekend.

The Internet writings of John Michael Greer—beyond any doubt the greatest peak oil historian in the English language—have finally made their way into print. Greer’s searingly perceptive blog entries on peak oil, which for the past several years have enjoyed a robust online following, have now been incorporated into a single bound volume from New Society Publishers titled The Long Descent.

The May 12th earthquake in western China’s Sichuan Province will have effects reaching further outside China than Beijing is letting on. Sichuan Province holds the key to China’s hydroelectric power generation plans in its renewable power targets and the area is also a hub for worldwide outsourced wind turbine equipment. Both were badly damaged.

We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.

Pine beetles may affect climate change
Up the Yangtze: documentary on impact of Three Gorges Dam
Three planetary futures: Reno, Cairo, Nanisivik

Contraction & Convergence proposed in Australian Senate
'Dammed if we do' - Traveston dam
Coal to liquids in Australia
Food vs fuel

Shallow water ahead for Panama Canal
Booming growth raises idea of dams
Water to be the next commoditised resource
Yemen sleepwalks into water nightmare

China looks to coal bed methane
Chinese shrug off $100 oil
Mao's home province goes green

Neighbors wary of China's Three Gorges dam

Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years
New Times Atlas displays effects of climate change
Dams 'contributing to global warming'

Beyond wind and solar, a new generation of clean energy
Forbes on solar: the sunshine economy