Bees part 2

New news about our friends that like to buzz around. This is something we can work on locally here in Boise. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24500059/from/ET/ ... (read more)

Tracking Saudi Oil From Space

Neil King Jr., Wall Street Journal Satellites Check Big Field's Health; Jitters Over Supply --- At a time of high anxiety over soaring fuel prices and scarce supplies, oil analysts are resorting to satellite imagery to crack one of the industry's biggest unknowns -- whether Saudi Arabia's massive Ghawar field is slipping into depleted old age. Saudi Arabia has long contended that its famed Ghawar... (read more)

World Publics Say Oil Needs to Be Replaced as Energy Source

Most Think Price Will Go Much Higher Americans Think Their Government Is Acting as if Oil Will Not Run Out Full report (PDF) Questionnaire/methodology(PDF) A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds that majorities in 15 of 16 nations surveyed around the world think that oil is running out and governments should make a major effort to find new sources of energy. Most think that future... (read more)

SEA LIONS AND TREES AND SALMON

I 'm with Joyce Kilmer -- "I think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree." I'm even with city Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who recently waxed poetical before the Portland City Council on the "incredible" "show-stopping" trees growing in Portland. But before I could recall the last lines of Kilmer's poem -- "Poems are made by fools like... (read more)

Good-Bye, Cheap Oil. So Long, Suburbia?

Good-Bye, Cheap Oil. So Long, Suburbia? Author James Kunstler says the Automotive Age is almost history and deconstructs McMansion living by Mara Der Hovanesian The suburban landscape has been marred by foreclosures and half-built communities abandoned in the subprime aftermath. But James Howard Kunstler, author of a dozen books, including The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, thinks... (read more)

Getting to 'green' without the rails

Getting to 'green' without the rails Friday, April 25, 2008 The Oregonian Many Portlanders assume that spending more money on public transportation will help save energy. But in 1979, a University of California at Irvine economist by the name of Charles Lave showed in an article published in The Atlantic Monthly that persuading people to buy more fuel-efficient cars... (read more)

Fatih Birol interview: 'Leave oil before it leaves us'

Note: Dr. Fatih Birol is Chief Economist and Head of the Economic Analysis Division of the Paris-based International Energy Agency. He is organiser and director of the World Energy Outlook series, the IEA’s flagship publication. He is also responsible for providing regular briefing to the Executive Director and Governing Board of the IEA on the economic impact of energy market... (read more)

Dumb as We Wanna Be

It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away. Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a... (read more)

Notes from 2007 Lane County Relocalization Conference

Here is more from the April 2007 Lane County Relocalization Conference: GROUP REPORTS (suggestions from plenary included and overlaps noted) FOOD * Expand the school garden project. * Work on initiatives with the city (also suggested by the Energy Group). * Have Saturday Market open 7 days a week, marketing the produce of local folks. * Use Lost Valley[Education Center, in Dexter] as a resource. * Have... (read more)

Impetus for Relocalizing Eugene's Food Supply: Ten Rivers Food Web

[one of the founders of the Ten Rivers Food Web, Harry MacCormack, will be speaking this Saturday, 5/3, at EWEB, 2PM; more in upcoming events] How to use Eugene's neighborhood structure to relocalize food supply, from the Corvallis-area's Ten Rivers Food Web: Want to get involved starting this in our area?... www.tenriversfoodweb.org IT'S OFFICIAL Human beings affect the environment. IT'S A FACT Individuals can choose... (read more)

2007 Word of the Year: 'Locavore'

Word of the Year: 'Locavore' 2007 New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year NEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Are you passing up store-bought bananas for apples from the farmers' market? Can you shakethe hand that picked your carrots? If you're concerned with how far food travels before it gets to your plate, you just may be a "locavore," the... (read more)

Program Notes from Sept. 2007 "Escape From Suburbia" Area Film Debut with Director Greg Greene & Panel

[the archive of the 9/28 KLCC interview with Greg Greene is here: www.klcc.org/audio/greggr.mp3 ] Saturday, Sept. 29th, 2007 http://escapefromsuburbia.com/ "Escape From Suburbia" film screening(review just below) and panel with community leaders** and director Greg Greene Central Presbyterian Church 555 E. 15th Ave. Eugene $5-20 at the door, sliding scale donation **Sustainability-oriented Raffle Prizes too** A fundraiser for Post Carbon Eugene and community energy-descent-mitigation campaigns ##Greg was Tripp Sommer's in-studio... (read more)

Film Review in Provender Journal: Escape From Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream

Provender Journal, September-October 2007 Escape From Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream. Directed by Gregory Greene, produced by Dara Rowland. $29.99 DVD Review by Melody Carr Director Gregory Greene and producer Dara Rowland have just released Escape from Suburbia, a sequel to the 2004 documentary End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream. Escape from Suburbia continues the first movie's... (read more)

RUNNING ON EMPTY

It used to be that only environmentalists and paranoids warned about running out of oil. Not anymore. As climate change did over the past few years, peak oil seems poised to become the next big idea commanding the attention of governments, businesses and citizens the world over. The arrival of $119-a-barrel crude and $4-a-gallon gasoline this spring are but the... (read more)

As Food Prices Rise, Shoppers Stock Up

Ross C. Powell has found a novel way to counter rising grocery prices. He started an informal food cooperative out of his garage. The San Antonio project manager is currently stocking up on inexpensive beef, anticipating meat prices will follow dairy, egg and grain prices higher. "It's a hedging strategy," says Mr. Powell, a 48-year-old father of three. He recently installed... (read more)

X Prize: $100 Million for Clean Fuels

In a bid to speed innovation, the foundation plans awards for breakthroughs in biofuels and other alternative-energy fields The X Prize Foundation made its name handing out $10 million awards for cutting-edge innovation in promising but thinly financed fields of research. But now the Santa Monica (Calif.) foundation is targeting one of the most-crowded contests in technology: the race to discover... (read more)

More on Eugene's New Pedal-Cab Business

Pedal Junkies is a new pedal cab service focused on providing a fun, safe, reliable and exciting way to get around Eugene. We, Jerad and Wayne, do only work for donations. A portion of our proceeds and a generous piece of our time is given to a charitable cause of our choice. For example, in April we donated a full... (read more)

Juneau conserves power

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Future Scenarios - David Holmgren

Australian David Holmgren, cooriginator of the Permaculture concept, has launched a new website exploring future scenarios in the context of climate change and peak oil. Site is still under construction but already has plenty of content. Lots to read, discuss and consider... Here is the link http://www.futurescenarios.org./... (read more)

Fuel Choices, Food Crises and Finger-Pointing

Fuel Choices, Food Crises and Finger-Pointing By ANDREW MARTIN Published: April 15, 2008 The idea of turning farms into fuel plants seemed, for a time, like one of the answers to high global oil prices and supply worries. That strategy seemed to reach a high point last year when Congress mandated a fivefold increase in the use of biofuels. But now... (read more)

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