Living through the transition from the Petroleum Age to a Sustainable Future.
Wholistic Workshops, Evening events, and Web portal supporting your transition through Information, Education, and Understanding
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LINKS Richard Heinberg's brief but detailed examination of the abiotic oil theory. Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas The main international site for Peak oil, edited by Colin Campbell. If you want to monitor new and latest developments about Peak oil, this is the site. Also lots of in depth articles and statistics. Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtari was the "senior expert" at the Iranian National Oil Company (Formed after the Iranian Revolution deposing the Shah of Iran and nationalising the countries oil infrastructure.) 33 years experience in the international oil industry, lecturer at Teheran University. He likes to think and predict the future. An Iranian equivalent to Matt Simmons, an oil industry heavyweight who thinks peak oil has happened, and we are into T1, Transition 1, when it will soon dawn on a growing number that peak oil has arrived and planning for energy decent must now take place. UK site for green activism, articles, polemics, eye witness accounts, and analysis. Wild and untamed and unashamedly radical. This is a site that allows you to buy carbon offsets for your fossil fuel use. They finance renewable energy and carbon sink projects in the third world. You just tell then for instance, where you are flying, and they calculate how much CO2 you will generate and then what the cost is to offset those emissions.Responsible consuming at its most forward looking. UK campaigning site for climate change and related matters. Peter Hale runs an impressive speakers network of people who will talk to schools and societies about climate change. Climate Change Speakers Network A great list of speaks all around the country that will speak to any organisation about climate change and related topics. Former energy analysist Jan Lumberg's take on petrocollapse. Provides access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts. Demos -Building Everyday Democracy A UK think tank on how to build democracy and the crisis in modern demcracy. Montains of Neo-Malthusian articles from the classic ecology of Bartlett, Odum, and Tainter, Ehrlich, Rees, and the peal oil theories of Campbell, Laherrere, Hubbert and much much more. Director of National Intelligence This is one of the USA's main response to 9/11. It brings links all the agencies of the armed forces and intelligence together with teh department of energy, state, and interior. Its job is to make US citizens safe. One of the weirder places on the net. Lester Brown's site dedicated to providing a vision of an environmentally sustainable economy—an eco-economy—as well as a roadmap of how to get from here to there. Thoughtful and in depth. EnergyBulletin.net is designed to be a clearinghouse for current information regarding the peak in global energy supply. A kind of peak oil CNN. Energy Information Administration The US government facts and figures on energy supply and demand is the largest, most recognized online environmental news source in the world. Since 1993, ENN has provided balanced and non-partisan news, information, and interactive resources for individuals, organizations, and corporations with environmental interests. Lots of fun and interesting reports and news about the environment, including audio reports and vidio streaming. Feasta- The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability Feasta aims to identify the characteristics (economic, cultural and environmental) of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected and promote the implementation of the measures required for this purpose. Independent and iconclastic political, social, and economic commentary of Michael C. Ruppert Aubrey Meyer's site detailing all aspects of contraction and convergence, the only satisfactory answer to CO2 emmissions, and what to do about them. Annoying blinking links on their home page, makes them look like some kind of dodgy pop up ad, why? "Economics as if people mattered." It undertakes and supports research into Green Economics issues, perspectives, methods, tools and instruments, economic theoretical discourses and disciplines in order to facilitate change in the way people are affected by the economy and their relationship to it. Lots of good stuff on alternative ways we might have for an economic system, but a really boring web site. Brian Milani's roadmap of a postindustrial alternative to corporate Globalism Hubbert Peak of Oil Production Provides data, analysis and recommendations regarding the upcoming peak in the rate of global oil extraction. International Clearinghouse for Hydrogen Based Commerce All you want to know about the Hydrogen economy. The official Organisation of Economically Developed Countries agency on energy matters. Publishes regular World Energy Outlook updates. Opens doors to the new bodies of thought, time-tested spiritual practices, and pioneering group methods, that are powerful inspirations to understanding and action. Joanna Macy shares these resources in service to the revolution of our time: the "Great Turning" from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization. Debunking Climate change, Peak oil, and all things green. "Deal with reality or reality will deal with you." Matt Savinar's take on peak oil, and the likely collapse of civilisation as we know it. Well researched and in parts compelling. is a UK based not for profit company established to raise awareness of the links between buildings, the working and living patterns they support, and global warming. We aim to help bring about change through the take up of new ideas and approaches to building. They have just built the UK's first earthship in Brighton. Minnesotans For Sustainability Large archive of articles on sustainability, limits to growth, and energy Designing Rules as if community matters, because the old rules don't work any longer. They undermine local economies, subvert democracy, weaken our sense of community, and ignore the costs of our decisions on the next generation Connecting oil companies, industrey professionals, and investors. If you want to know who's struck oil this week, this is the place. The most authorative peak oil and related topics site on the web. Adam Porter's mix and match of energy industry analysis and peak oil snippets. Broadcasts that you can have downloaded to your iPod, definitely fun and informative. Don't miss the funny music at the brginning and end of each news item. Good source of material on Peak oil. Many articles and news items. An independent, UK-registered educational charity working to raise international public awareness and promote better understanding of the world's oil-depletion problem. The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries official web site. OPEC's research and monthy bulletins. E zine informed by a growing ecological awareness and the need for cultural change, it is a forum for thoughtful and creative ideas and practical examples of how we might live justly, wisely, and artfully on Earth Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Is a centre for advanced research into the social science areas of energy issues. Our aim is to promote dialogue between consumers and producers, government and industry, and academics and decisions makers in order to gain a more informed understanding of the factors that influence international energy markets. Dry, academic, and in depth. A authoritive source for all aspects of Climate Change. Point Carbon is the leading global provider of independent analysis, news, market intelligence and forecasting for the emerging carbon emission markets. Post Carbon Institute's mission is to assist societies in their efforts to relocalize communities and adapt to an energy constrained world. A world wide diary of peak oil events, and economic relocalising actions. A community network of groups who are relocalising economies worldwide, excellent networking site. Powerswitch.org.uk is dedicated to raising awareness & discussion of the impending & permanent decline of cheap oil & gas supply, the consequences of which will affect every corner of our lives. Networks UK groups who are raising the awareness of peak oil and associated matters. Climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. It is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science.Rising Tide UK is a network of groups and individuals dedicated to taking local action and building a movement against climate change. Want to get involved? is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining. You can download an on line book, 'Winning the Oil Endgame' here. The Science & Environmental Policy Project Scientists against all things green. A high profile, bi partisan group of congressmen, ex national security advisors, and environmentalists who are proposing drastic reductions in the USA's energy use. they view this as a security issue. Hard hitting and to the point. Will appeal to the most hard headed free marketter and tree hugger alike. The Uk's largest supplier of photo voltaic panels. Some good analysis and insight into commercialising green technologies. The Congress aims to create a clear set of measures which can be adopted by cities globally, supported by the commercial activities of businesses and technological innovations of scientists. It is expected that the resulting OXFORD DECLARATION at the end of the Congress will be a major step forward in practically mapping a route into the Renewable Age. Sustainable Development Commission Headed by Jonathan Porritt, the Sustainable Development Commission is the Government's independent advisory body on sustainable development. Pioneering and innovative apporach that is surprising to see in officialdom! Is an Evolving exploration into the head, heart, and hands of energy decent. Rob's site looks at possible futures that will evolve when energy becomes progressively more expensive, and is an interesting and informative portal for the peak oil, and associated debates. A graph-a-holics nirvana. Trends and graphs for many different subjects. Freddy has done some interesting work on peak oil date predictions. Is that fateful day retreating into the distance, or coming at us like a freight train? Here one person's answer. US Government D.O.E.,Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy What you see is what you get. A wealth of information. "The era of easy oil is over" declares Chevron, one of the major US oil companies. When an oil company who's business is to sell as much oil as possible begins to talk about conservation and issues veiled warnings about "easy oil", I draw the obvious conclusion. I love the counter that tells you how much oil the world has consumed since you logged on. Independent research for an environmentally sustainable and socially just Society You want to track the NYMEX price of crude on an hour by hour basis, or see the latest reasearch into coal, or nuclear. Awareness about peak oil, combinded with info and analysis, definitely part of the 'reality based 'community
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Wholistic Workshops, Evening events, and Web portal supporting your transition through Information, Education, and Understanding. Our workshops and events in the UK,and this web site will tell you all you need to know, in simple, non-technical language, about, energy, ecology, ‘Peak oil', climate change, food supplies, the politics of oil and energy, economics, renewable energy, bio-fuels, population growth, sustainable economics, no growth economies, energy conservation, wind power, solar power, permaculture, and more.
