• Tiny Cabin and Tiny Workspace Organization

    Updated: 2012-06-30 23:15:22
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Saturday , June 30, 2012 Tiny Cabin and Tiny Workspace Organization My cabin interior redesign is now finished Here is the finished and now neatly organized corner of my cabin that is the office So much better than the unused and oh so messy loft Everything is now neatly organized on the selves which are now mostly covered by curtains Thanks Kerry for a tidy . appearance Not only is the cabin a much more pleasant place to be but keeping it clean is now so much easier . It may just be a change in attitude on my part but yeah , I'm enjoying being organized . It's also nice having a work space which is something I've not had for the past few months because I replaced my previous table desk with a . futon The paint was a great decision . As much as I enjoyed the

  • Visteon Launches Instrument Cluster On Honda’s New Scooter In Indonesia – Daily Markets (press release)

    Updated: 2012-06-30 23:13:45
    Visteon Launches Instrument Cluster On Honda's New Scooter In IndonesiaDaily Markets (press release)Sam on Capital One Secured Credit Card Review; Nathan on Capital One Secured Credit Card Review; Samoht on Julian Simon, Power Of Market Prices, Why We'll Never Run Out Of Oil, Why Peak Oil Is Peak Idiocy; June on Journey Student Rewards From [...]

  • peak oil: On the verge of an energy transition

    Updated: 2012-06-30 23:13:45
    YouTube Video Link   peak oil: On the verge of an energy transitionJeremy leggett explaining how British politicians have our best interests at heart! ASPO2012From:Hydrocarbonman147Views:00ratingsTime:05:25More inEducation

  • Peak Oil Book Review: The Long Descent

    Updated: 2012-06-30 23:13:45
    YouTube Video Link   Peak Oil Book Review: The Long DescentWebsite: MrEnergyCzar.com Book review of The Long Descent. This is a great book to help you understand the coming future and get ideas for making preparations. MrEnergyCzar rating is 4 stars. Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter: Twitter.com Video The Long Descent Book Review Brende Amish Rail Truck [...]

  • Peak Oil and how it ties to Collapse of Growth (End of Growth happened in 2008)

    Updated: 2012-06-30 23:13:45
    YouTube Video Link   Peak Oil and how it ties to Collapse of Growth (End of Growth happened in 2008)Here is a talk on the mega event that is coming and I am preparing for… are you?From:EduitorgViews:10ratingsTime:17:25More inPeople & Blogs

  • Peak Oil, a new short animation | Peak Oil News and Message Boards

    Updated: 2012-06-30 23:13:45
    Peak Oil News and Message Boards is a community and collaboration portal about energy-related topics. More: continued here

  • Mass Megawatts Earned Revenue In Recent Fiscal Year – Daily Markets (press release)

    Updated: 2012-06-30 23:13:45
    Mass Megawatts Earned Revenue In Recent Fiscal YearDaily Markets (press release)Sam on Capital One Secured Credit Card Review; Nathan on Capital One Secured Credit Card Review; Samoht on Julian Simon, Power Of Market Prices, Why We'll Never Run Out Of Oil, Why Peak Oil Is Peak Idiocy; June on Journey Student Rewards From …and more » [...]

  • Gaza’s ‘Girls In Blue’ – Scoop.co.nz

    Updated: 2012-06-30 23:13:45
    Gaza's 'Girls In Blue'Scoop.co.nzWerewolf: Has The Peak Oil Idea… Peaked? Gordon Campbell: In this year's Budget, all the energy cost assumptions were based on the oil price falling from above $US100 a barrel to $US94.4. Well, hello. At time of writing the price of West Texas crude … More: continued here

  • Christmas in Killarney…80% Off! – Daily Reckoning – American Edition

    Updated: 2012-06-30 23:13:45
    Christmas in Killarney…80% Off!Daily Reckoning – American EditionForget 'peak oil.' Or so they say. It has fracked its way to energy self-sufficiency. Porter Stansberry: … there are roughly 20 major shale oil plays in the US. The largest five of these new reservoirs have more than 20 billion barrels of recoverable …and more » More: continued [...]

  • 4th Annual Village-building Convergence (VbC) to unite Transition Town and … – vtdigger.org

    Updated: 2012-06-30 23:13:45
    4th Annual Village-building Convergence (VbC) to unite Transition Town and …vtdigger.orgOn Wednesday June 20, VbC will kick-off with keynote speaker, James Howard Kunstler (novelist and internationally renowned author of the peak oil classic The Long Emergency) at the Unitarian Church in Montpelier at 7pm. Kunstler's 90 minute talk will … More: continued here

  • Mysterious email to Sakhalin Energy

    Updated: 2012-06-30 22:55:43
    By John Donovan I have printed below extracts from a mysterious email, partly in English and partly in Russian, circulated to a number of people at Sakhalin Energy earlier today, with a copy sent to us. It makes a reference to plagiarism and contains a threat to “sell my story to royaldutchshellplc.com  and become the [...]

  • Pennsylvania Senate passes tax credit for petrochemical plants

    Updated: 2012-06-30 15:48:21
    Published: Saturday, June 30, 2012, 8:43 a.m. HARRISBURG — The Senate on Friday night approved legislation to set up a state tax credit for a company considering building a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant in Beaver County. Under the bill, approved 43-6, the credit would be available to Royal Dutch Shell plc and other so-called cracker plants and [...]

  • Senator: Arctic drilling a political win for Obama

    Updated: 2012-06-30 15:27:06
    By Ben Geman – 06/29/12 03:11 PM ET The Obama administration’s expected approval of Royal Dutch Shell’s plan to drill in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast this summer is a political plus for President Obama, according to Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), an advocate of the project. FULL ARTICLE

  • Greenpeace ships shadow drilling vessels to Arctic

    Updated: 2012-06-30 15:22:45
    Originally published Friday, June 29, 2012 at 1:45 PM Greenpeace ships shadow drilling vessels to Arctic Greenpeace is shadowing two Shell drilling vessels that left Seattle to start their journey to the Arctic this week. The Associated Press KODIAK, Alaska — Greenpeace is shadowing two Shell drilling vessels that left Seattle to start their journey [...]

  • Nigerian President Petitioned Through the Nigerian Embassy in USA to Clean Ogoniland

    Updated: 2012-06-30 15:15:37
    Dear John, Please see and use Nigerian Embassy protest pictures with the petition to the Nigerian president. In first pic is Ben Ikari speaking to the officials of the Embassy which include the number two man to the ambassador and embassy spokesperson. The other pictures have Ogonis: Messrs. Zor Court, Lawrence Maeba Jr., Bright Nwideezua [...]

  • Shell rigs and support vessels Alaska-bound; wins 2 legal issues

    Updated: 2012-06-29 22:30:57
    Week of July 01, 2012 A caravan of ships departed the Seattle-area on June 27 en route to Alaska, where they appear increasingly likely to conduct an offshore exploration campaign for Shell. The Kulluk and Noble Discoverer drilling rigs and a fleet of support vessels left Seattle, Wash., around 6:30 a.m. Alaska time, bound for [...]

  • Shell eyes Mackenzie Valley Canol shale oil play

    Updated: 2012-06-29 22:22:23
    HOUSTON, June 29 06/29/2012 By OGJ editors Shell Canada Energy has taken a farmout from MGM Energy Corp., Calgary, to earn an interest in MGM’s 466B exploration license in the Central Mackenzie Valley of Canada’s Northwest Territories by funding the drilling of one or two wells in the Devonian Canol shale oil play. Shell has [...]

  • Nigeria says arrests oil pipeline bomber

    Updated: 2012-06-29 22:17:02
    YENAGOA, Nigeria | Fri Jun 29, 2012 3:56pm EDT (Reuters) – Nigerian authorities said on Friday they had arrested the leader of a network of crude oil thieves in the Niger Delta responsible for several pipeline bombings against oil majors including Shell and ENI. Nigeria is the world’s eighth biggest exporter of crude oil but [...]

  • Gazprom to study LNG output expansion for Asia

    Updated: 2012-06-29 22:13:33
    By Vladimir Soldatkin and Melissa Akin MOSCOW | Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:13pm IST (Reuters) – Gazprom said it had agreed to a feasibility study to expand Russia’s only liquefied natural gas plant, a victory for its partner Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L), which has urged the state-run gas monopoly to seize a market opportunity in [...]

  • ENDLESS GROWTH? Sobering Conclusions

    Updated: 2012-06-29 19:58:46
    Rex Weyler June 22, 2012 I recommend that you take the time to watch Rex’s speech at Idea City. Link below. Vandy I believe we all understand that endless growth – like perpetual motion – is impossible in nature, and therefore impossible in human culture, as long since pointed out by serious economists: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, The Entropy Law and the [...]

  • Here-to-For Only Seen in Spy Movies – the Cyanide Capsule

    Updated: 2012-06-29 19:37:23
    It is never dull here in AZ.  It appears that Michael Marin, upon being convicted of arson in court yesterday, may have committed suicide right there in court. “Burning Man” Michael Marin reportedly died after his “medical emergency” in the courtroom yesterday, which came after a jury handed down a guilty verdict in Marin’s arson case. Fox 10 [...]

  • SEG Lecture Tour – Tel Aviv, Israel, 2/05/12

    Updated: 2012-06-29 15:10:50
    The Israeli geophysical community is quite small, due to the limited extent of its hydrocarbon industry, yet has still produced a large number of well-known geoscientists, several of whom have worked in North America and Europe, including Prof. Dan Kosloff, Zvi Koren and Anat Canning (at Paradigm), as well as Ran Bachrach and Moshe Reshef [...]

  • Now That Mandates Are Effectively Legal, Here is The Next One

    Updated: 2012-06-28 21:54:49
    You have to watch politicians’ commercials The Dish Network, in its continuing effort to attract new viewers, introduced a new DVR called the Hopper earlier this year. The Hopper’s main appeal is that it allows you to skip past commercials entirely, and unsurprisingly, TV networks aren’t very happy about this. But guess who else is unhappy? [...]

  • Unintended Consequences

    Updated: 2012-06-28 19:24:28
    These women’s weight gain ads seem funny because they are so out of step with most women’s concerns today.  But what changed?  My guess is that the whole weight-gain thing really was about larger breasts.  If you wanted more cleavage, you had to gain weight.  But breast implants changed that.  Now one can have an [...]

  • The Supremes Have Me Confused

    Updated: 2012-06-28 18:39:21
    So this is how I read the PPACA/Obamacare decision today The mandate is not allowed under the commerce clause powers However, Congress is allowed to use its taxing power to issue financial threats to coerce individual activity it can’t mandate However, Congress is not allowed to use financial threats to coerce state government activity that [...]

  • Bid Rigging for Municipal Asset Management

    Updated: 2012-06-28 00:29:50
    Rolling Stone Magazine has an good story on the conviction of a number of banks and brokers on charges of bid-rigging, specifically on contracts for short-to-medium term management of municipal bond cash accounts.  Apparently brokers were paid by certain banks to be given a look at all the other bids before they made their final [...]

  • Predicting Netquakes

    Updated: 2012-06-27 23:12:23
    No matter what the SCOTUS decision on health care, the Internet is going to go apeshit tomorrow.

  • Time Perception Paradox

    Updated: 2012-06-27 23:03:52
    This is true for me, ymmv. Time seems to pass much more quickly as one is experiencing it when one is busy. However, looking backwards, time periods that were chock-full of activities tend to lengthen.  A point in time a year ago seems further in the past in a busy year than a sparse year. [...]

  • Nigeria Loses $1 Billion a Month in Oil Theft

    Updated: 2012-06-27 09:43:23
    Reports coming out of Nigeria this morning are that the country’s President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked senior oil officials from the state oil company NNPC in the interests of “greater transparency and accountability.” Jonathan has come under intense pressure to clean up the country’s oil industry. We have known for a while that theft and...Continue reading 'Nigeria Loses $1 Billion a Month in Oil Theft'.

  • More SLAPP-happy Lawyer Fun

    Updated: 2012-06-26 23:04:09
    Apparently the co-owner of the Miami Heat Ranaan Katz does not like to be criticized by the plebes.  So like many rich guys nowadays, he sued a blogger who he felt was saying hurtful things about him, because as we all know the First Amendment has a built in exception for college students and billionaires who have a [...]

  • Bye, Bye Peak Oil

    Updated: 2012-06-26 10:31:01
    Contrary to what most people believe, oil supply capacity is growing at such an unprecedented level that it might soon outpace consumption. This could lead to overproduction and a steep dip in oil prices. That is the startling conclusion from Leonardo Maugeri, a former senior executive with Italian oil giant ENI, who is currently a...Continue reading 'Bye, Bye Peak Oil'.

  • Rio – 20

    Updated: 2012-06-25 10:31:05
    First the gloss from Rio. This was the UN’s largest ever conference with 45,300 delegates from more than 180 nations. The UN says it has obtained pledges worth $500 billion from governments and companies for projects aimed at reducing the strain on the planet’s resources. There are nearly 700 commitments from governments to supposedly cut...Continue reading 'Rio – 20'.

  • Dirty Energy Money Buys Yet Another House Vote: H.R.4480

    Updated: 2012-06-21 08:23:30
    The US House of Representatives voted on H.R.4480: the Strategic Energy Production Act earlier today. The vote passed 248-163. Once again, dirty energy money interests have prevailed. Those voting in favor of the measure have taken over $52 million from the oil, gas and coal industries since 1999, and almost $11 million in this Congress...Continue reading 'Dirty Energy Money Buys Yet Another House Vote: H.R.4480'.

  • Senators Supporting Inhofe’s Toxic Air Resolution Mired in Dirty Energy Money

    Updated: 2012-06-20 18:27:00
    Senators voted down a resolution aimed at gutting the EPA’s Mercury and Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants this morning, 46-53. The 46 senators voting for this anti-science and anti-health resolution are awash in campaign contributions from the very companies that would have profited from its success. The average senator voting in favor of S.J....Continue reading 'Senators Supporting Inhofe’s Toxic Air Resolution Mired in Dirty Energy Money'.

  • EU Commissioner Calls for End to Subsidies

    Updated: 2012-06-20 09:46:42
    Connie Hedegaard, the outspoken EU Commissioner for Climate Action, has lent her weight to the growing calls for ending fossil fuel subsidies. Earlier in the week, Oil Change International revealed that fossil fuel subsidies could be as high a $1 trillion. Oil Change has been working with others NGOs to make phasing out subsidies a...Continue reading 'EU Commissioner Calls for End to Subsidies'.

  • Report: Phasing Out Fossil-Fuel Subsidies in the G20: A Progress Update

    Updated: 2012-06-18 01:15:32
    Download the Report In this, our second review of progress in meeting this phase out commitment (an earlier review was published in November 2010), we reviewed formal submittals by member countries to the G20 and the WTO, reached out individually to staff from each member country, and reviewed third-party assessments of fossil fuel subsidies. We...Continue reading 'Report: Phasing Out Fossil-Fuel Subsidies in the G20: A Progress Update'.

  • Stand Up Canada

    Updated: 2012-06-14 20:34:55
    June 3, 2012, By Michael Jessen “We become civilized only by knowing what to refrain from doing.” – Nassim Taleb We have been warned. The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline will change Canada as we know it; it is a path to a future Canada that will be an undemocratic petro state. That was the message delivered Wednesday (May 30) by [...]

  • Report – Low Hanging Fruit: Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Climate Finance, and Sustainable Development

    Updated: 2012-06-14 19:37:45
    Our latest report – produced for the Heinrich Boll Foundation in association with Vasudha Foundation (India), Greenovation Hub (China) and the Natural Resources Defense Council – provides updated estimates of global fossil fuel subsidies and overviews many of the issues surrounding subsidy removal. The figure for production and consumption subsidies is at least $775 billion...Continue reading 'Report – Low Hanging Fruit: Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Climate Finance, and Sustainable Development'.

  • $1 TRILLION in Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies & the Urgent Need for Transparency

    Updated: 2012-06-13 14:22:09
    Recently we wrote about calling on governments to end global fossil fuel subsidies.   Well, here’s yet another compelling reason why.  In the graphic below you can see that according to Oil Change International analysis, governments around the world are spending perhaps more than $1 trillion USD combined per year subsidizing the fossil fuel industry....Continue reading .

  • Interview with REX WEYLER

    Updated: 2012-06-13 08:13:07
    June 09, 2012 The Star.com Antonia Zerbisias {{GA_Article.Images.Alttext$}} Rex Weyler, co-founder of Greenpeace International. Q: So, what are you going to talk about? The pipelines? A: No, about real solutions and false solutions. Q: What do you mean? A: The false solutions are the ones that continue to encourage the consumption of the Earth’s resources. The Earth really does have limits and we [...]

  • Myth of Perpetual Growth is killing America

    Updated: 2012-06-13 02:12:31
    Commentary: Everything you know about economics is wrong By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Yes, everything you know about economics is wrong. Dead wrong. Everything. The conclusions of economists are based on a fiction that distorts everything else. As a result economics is as real as one of the summer blockbusters like [...]

  • Why Are Australian Electricity Prices So High?

    Updated: 2012-06-10 15:46:18
    It is a question that is often asked: Who pays how much for electricity and why? The answer, it turns out, is not as straightforward as it may appear. It may not be as complicated, but is akin to asking what is the most expensive city to live in? In this case, the answer depends [...]

  • Thoughts Observations

    Updated: 2012-06-05 02:56:00
    skip to main skip to sidebar Thoughts Observations A Blog on our future Supported by : aarondunlap.net Search This Blog Loading . Monday , June 04, 2012 There is an email circulating that this is a recent photo of Trayvon . Martin Anybody confirm this Posted by Aaron Dunlap at 8:56 PM No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom News Loading . TextLinks Circuit Breaker Resources Circuit Breaker Feed Subscribe in a reader Search Links Aaron Dunlap Blog Archive 2012 3 June 2 Entry-level often refers to gateway positions wh . There is an email circulating that this is a recen . April 1 New Orleans Jazz Festival 2011 2 April 1 The Impact of Fathers on Psychological Well-Being March 1 The effects absent fathers have on female developm . 2010 2 March

  • Shale gas in Eastern Europe: gold for a new sheikdom or vain illusion?

    Updated: 2012-06-03 18:55:22
    Shale gas represents an interesting potential to free Eastern Europe from Russian gas imports. The 2009 gas crisis has raised awareness of the precarious situation of being that dependent on one supplier. But reserves seem to be less important than expected and they are dwarfed by the U.S. and China reserves. Besides, there are specificities [...]

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