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A study by a German military think tank has analyzed how “peak oil” might change the global economy. The internal draft document - leaked on the Internet - shows for the first time how carefully the German government has considered a potential energy crisis.
The report says there is “some probability that peak oil will occur around the year 2010 and that the impact on security is expected to be felt 15 to 30 years later.”
The New York Times reports on a welcome development: some banks are getting cold feet about lending to projects that are legal but still produce environmental damage: After years of legal entanglements arising from environmental messes and increased scrutiny of banks that finance the dirtiest industries, several large commercial lenders are taking a stand on industry [...]
The summer here in Pittsford has been really enjoyable, with plenty of rain and sunshine and, for the first summer in years, almost no mosquitoes in our garden. This year we have an extraordinary crop of summer and winter squash, and plenty of tomatoes and basil. I have been mixing weeds and leaves with the waste food from the Rutland Food Coop for years, and this has given us an abundant supply …
Boulder County farmers’ markets are usually held only once or twice a week. But they are about to be celebrated for eight days in a row as part of EAT LOCAL! Week.
The realities of climate change and energy depletion mean that at some point, we will encounter situations where there is not enough of an energy resource or one of the things it enables - whether food or transport or whatever, to go around. In fact, eventually we will enounter many of these shortages. Whether they arise initially from a situation in which there are actual shortages or whether …
What is the stuff linking Christmas Island and Nauru in the political issue, boat people, that might turn today’s election? It’s shit. Bird shit, to be precise. Both these tiny islands – one conveniently located off Java as a jumping point to Australia, the other in the mid-Pacific as a dumping ground to delay them making it – developed the infrastructure to support detention camps during the …
As the world sinks deeper into what he calls the Greater Depression, Casey Research Chairman Doug Casey sees default on the U.S. national debt as inevitable—albeit probably in the guise of currency destruction. He anticipates further contraction in real estate, particularly on the commercial front.
Casey Research Chairman Doug Casey sees default on the U.S. national debt as inevitable and, he’ll shy away from equities-except perhaps in favored sectors such as gold. Gold Report interview.
As the world sinks deeper into what he calls the Greater Depression, Casey Research Chairman Doug Casey sees default on the U.S. national debt as inevitable—albeit probably in the guise of currency destruction. He anticipates further contraction in real estate, particularly on the commercial front.
