By Eugene Linden, BusinessWeek, published June 25, 2007
Oil output has stalled, and it’s not clear the capacity exists to raise production
With global oil production virtually stalled in recent years, controversial predictions that the world is fast approaching maximum petroleum output are looking a bit less controversial. At first blush, those concerned about global warming should [...]

…and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change. Those are not the words of eco-warriors but the considered opinion of a group of eminent scientists writing in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
By Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independent (UK) published June 19, 2007
Six scientists from some [...]

Scientists challenge major review of global reserves and warn that supplies will start to run out in four years’ time
By Daniel Howden, The Independent (UK), published June 14, 2007
Scientists have criticised a major review of the world’s remaining oil reserves, warning that the end of oil is coming sooner than governments and oil companies are [...]

By Dan Sorenson, Arizona Daily Star, May 5, 2007
As officials around the globe discuss what to do about climate change, the authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report and some local experts say there is work to do here, now.
“It’s easy to say, ‘I’m the small guy and I don’t count,’ but [...]

The world has come full circle. A century ago our first transportation biofuels — the hay and oats fed to our horses — were replaced by gasoline. Today, ethanol from corn and biodiesel from soybeans have begun edging out gasoline and diesel.
This has been hailed as an overwhelmingly positive development that will help us reduce [...]

The Portland Peak Oil Task Force, a twelve member
citizen committee appointed by Portland´s City Council in May 2006,
today delivered a strongly worded report advising that the City
accelerate efforts to curb the use of oil and natural gas.

The report´s key recommendation is that the City take action to
reduce fossil fuel use by half over the next 25 years. The report
finds the best path to this goal is in accelerating current
initiatives such as high-density planning and zoning, public
transportation and acquiring electricity from renewable resources.
Additional recommendations suggest specific actions elected officials
can take to move towards the goals.

Do Sustainable Cities Have a Future?
By Neil Peirce, The American Prospect
Posted on February 21, 2007, Printed on February 21, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/47728/
This article is reprinted from the American Prospect.
A “green revolution” is burgeoning in America’s cities and towns.
And it’s a surprise. Six years ago, as we exited an economically exuberant but perilously polluting 20th century, the idea [...]

Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society
By James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. Posted February 10, 2007.
The best way to feel hopeful about our looming energy crisis is to get active now and prepare for living arrangements in a post-oil society.
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Editor’s Note: James Howard Kunstler is a leading writer on the topic of peak [...]

Presentation
at
Southwest Renewable Energy Fair
duBois Center, NAU
August 9, 2002
Man was the first creature to use fossil fuel…or was he?
E. Allan Blair, Ph.D.
Fossil energy or fossil fuel is solar energy stored as chemical energy in the form of coal, petroleum, and natural gas. It is plant material that has accumulated in sediments and thereby removed from [...]

Howard Odum’s following paper, published in 1974, was considered one of the most concise—yet most sweeping—examinations made of the real problems of the world up to that time. His groundbreaking book Environment, Power and Society (John Wiley, 1972) also introduced us to his paradigm-changing energetic analysis of economics and ecology. This paper should be included [...]