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Michigan hosts state-focused peak oil conference

Aaron Wissner, Energy Bulletin

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.

archived November 6, 2008
	

Review: 'The Long Descent' by John Michael Greer

Frank Kaminski, Seattle Peak Oil Awareness (SPOA)

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.

archived August 31, 2008
	

China’s renewable energy plans: shaken, not stirred

David DuByne, Language Instinct

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.

archived July 8, 2008
	

Book review: "Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil"

Frank Kaminski, Seattle Peak Oil Awareness

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

archived June 30, 2008
	

Climate & envrionment - Apr 25

Staff, Energy Bulletin

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

archived April 25, 2008
	

Australia - Apr 14

Staff, Energy Bulletin

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

archived April 14, 2008
	

Water - Mar 4

Staff, Energy Bulletin

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

archived March 4, 2008
	

China - Jan 4

Staff, Energy Bulletin

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

archived January 4, 2008
	

Climate science - Sept 5

Staff, Energy Bulletin

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

archived September 5, 2007
	

Renewables - Sept 1

Staff, Energy Bulletin

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

archived September 1, 2007