Peak Oil

View From Inside Chesapeake's Board of Directors

Mason Inman | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Transition, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas, Fracking, Peak Oil, Chesapeake Energy, Green News
Mason Inman

Chesapeake Energy has been all over the news lately, with intense scrutiny of CEO Aubrey McClendon's attempt to take out more than $1 billion in loans for a complex deal to give himself a share of proceeds from the wells they're drilling.

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Scraping the Bottom

John Feffer | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Oil, Energy, Fracking, Green Energy, Peak Oil, Ecuador, Carbon, Renewable Energy, Natural Gas, World News
John Feffer

Just about every commodity we depend on is becoming scarce: oil, natural gas, key metals, rare earth elements, and even arable land. As a result, like greedy little kids with a cookie jar, we are scraping the bottom to get all that remains.

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Should Young Farmers Be Exempt From a National Draft?

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Military Draft, Amish, Organic Food, Peak Oil, Green News
Jenna Woginrich

Would you be willing to grow or raise your own food in a time of national emergency such as war? Do you even know how?

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Resource Depletion Is a Bigger Threat Than Climate Change: An Interview With Tom Murphy

James Burgess | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Solar Energy, Shale Gas, Fossil Fuels, Peak Oil, Green Technology, Green, Green News, Renewable Energy, Oil Prices, Bill Gates, Climate Change, Economic Growth, Green Energy, Green News
James Burgess

Rising geopolitical tensions and high oil prices are continuing to help renewable energy find favor amongst investors and politicians. Yet how much faith should we place in renewables to make up the shortfall in fossil fuels?

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A Post-Fukushima World: Truths and Confusion About Global Energy

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Chernobyl, Fossil Fuels, Energy, Fukushima, Physics, Climate Parliament, Kumi Naidoo, Peak Oil, Sustainability, Fracking, Science, Clean Energy, Greenpeace, Solar Energy, Nuclear Energy, Climate Change, International Energy Agency, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Green Energy, Solar Power, Global Warming, Concentrated Solar Power, Business News
Vivian Norris

If renewable energy is less costly than fossil fuels and nuclear, then why aren't we ramping up the move to a planetary renewable energy policy?

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My Decade of Being "Peak Oil Aware"

Stephen Hren | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Renewable Energy, Localism, Peak Oil, Osama Bin Laden, Nature, Saudi Oil, Green News
Stephen Hren

After 9/11, in an attempt to understand the world, I did something I wasn't, as an American, supposed to do. I listened to Osama bin Laden and his complaints.

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The Quest for Connection

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Energy, Oil, The Quest, Peak Oil, Climate Change, James Hansen, Daniel Yergin, Global Warming, Richard Heinberg, Green News
Craig K. Comstock

Daniel Yergin has succeeded as a historian of energy, but failed as envisioner of a tolerable future. On the jacket of his new book, a parade of e...

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Simple Solutions for Planet Earth and Humanity

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Exclusive Economic Zone, Peak Oil, Fukushima, Global Warming, Earth Energy Solutions, Energy Solutions, Green Solutions, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

This is my 100th posting in the Huffington Post. I've had a couple of retrospective articles, as for example at the end of 2008 with "Simple Solution...

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EXTRA! EXTRA! Wall Street Journal and New York Times Finally Catch Up, Report "Peak Oil" Theory Is Bogus

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Energy, West-Texas-Intermediate, World, Peak Oil, Opec, Saudi Arabia, NewYork Times, M. King Hubbert, Hubberts Peak, Oil, Opec-Secretary-General-Abdullah-Al-Badri, Daniel Yergin, Huffington Post, Brent Crude, Wall Street Journal, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Times are a changing. With "peak oil" finally in proper perspective the hegemony of OPEC over the oil market is starting to sunder. The ascendancy of oil production in many corners of the world is beginning to change the accepted rules of the market.

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Buddhism And The End Of Growth

John Stanley | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Green Living, Buddhism, Peak Oil, Economic Crisis, Green Faith, Eco-Theology, Eco-Buddhism Project, Free Market Capitalism, Economic Reform, Gross National Happiness, Buddhist Environmentalism, Global Climate Change, Buddhism and the Economy, Economy, Religion News
John Stanley

It is increasingly obvious that natural limitations will soon force economic growth to cease. Buddhist teachings emphasize that this does not require a reduction in the quality of life.

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The Perry Principle

Robert Walker | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Population, Deniers, Population Growth, Drought, Peak Oil, Climate Science, Climate Change, Climate Deniers, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Sustainability, Flooding, Evolution, Rick Perry, Global Warming, Elections 2012, Politics News
Robert Walker

Rick Perry has dominated the headlines with public assertions that evolution is just a theory, and that the jury is still out whether human activity is responsible for climate change. He is just the latest public figure to call scientifically accepted ideas into question.

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Who Killed Economic Growth? (And Why the Planet Is Listening)

Asher Miller | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Limits to Growth, Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg, Economic Growth, National Debt, Peak Oil, End of Growth, Oil Industry, Oil Prices, Oil, Oil Economy, Green News
Asher Miller

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It's On Us, San Francisco

Morgan Fitzgibbons | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Peak Oil, Farmers Markets, Beats, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Pollution, Hippies, San Francisco, Bay Area, San Francisco News
Morgan Fitzgibbons

While we like to think we've got it all figured out with our farmer's markets, strong bike culture and radical social tolerance, the reality is that the Bay Area, like every other major metropolis at this point in time, is a lot of talk and very little walk.

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The Climate Post: U.K.'s "Greenest Government Ever" Charges Ahead With Nuclear Power

Mason Inman | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Rex Tillerson, Germany, U.S. Senate, Oil Drilling, Peak Oil, United Kingdom, Japan Nuclear Crisis, Nuclear Power, David Cameron, Oil Prices, European Union, Italy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Tepco, Huhne, Renewable Energy, Japan Tsunami 2011, Green News
Mason Inman

David Cameron, has repeatedly pledged to create the "greenest government ever," and now the country has adopted a new, ambitious goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, aiming by 2025 to slash them by half, compared with 1990.

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Peak Stuff?

Carl Pope | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Nissan Leaf, Lindsay Graham, Tesla Motors, Peak Oil, Riversimple, Green News
Carl Pope

The real issue is not peak oil -- it's peak stuff. The world doesn't contain enough coal, copper, steel, or wood to enable Asia and Africa to develop even European standards of consumption and waste.

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For the U.S. Military, Fuel Security Means Going Renewable

Frank Sesno | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Army, Military, Peak Oil, Fossil Fuels, Green, Oil, Algae, Clean Technology, Innovation, Navy, Global Warming, Green News
Frank Sesno

The military is the single largest consumer of oil in the U.S., using over 400,000 barrels per day. That's why military sources have begun exploring algae-based biofuels to break our use of foreign oil.

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After the American Dream

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Dan Ariely, Economic Mobility Project, Peak Oil, Potlatch, Michael I. Norton, Decline, Inequality, American Dream, Business News
Craig K. Comstock

Over breakfast with a client who had a $90 million fortune, I asked a hypothetical question: would it decrease your motivation as an entrepreneur if i...

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Renewable Electricity Is Our Only Viable Option: Part 2

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: End of Fission Electricity, Fukushima, Peak Oil, Renewable Energy, Nuclear Fusion, Global Warming, Iter, 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Chernobyl, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

I still hold long-term hopes for fusion, but my experience working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on laser fusion convinces me that we are at least a generation away before any kind of commercialization will occur.

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Preparing for the Next Oil Shock

Kelly Rigg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Industry, Peak Oil, Saudi Arabia, Political Activism, Oil Prices, Climate Crisis, Social Activism, Libya Protests, Green News
Kelly Rigg

Even before the recent upheavals in the Middle East, there were signs that the time is approaching when global oil extraction will peak and begin its terminal decline.

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OPEC May Raise Oil Output

AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Prices, Opec Oil Output, Gas Prices, Libya, Oil Supply, Peak Oil, Brent Crude, Business News

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia's oil minister on Tuesday denied the surge in oil prices reflects a shortage of crude on the market b...

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World on the Edge

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earth Policy Institute, Free Market, Saving Civilization, Externalities, Peak Oil, Lester Brown, Climate Change, Poverty, Global Economic Crisis, Books News
Craig K. Comstock

One of the attractive habits in American civilization is to ask: well, what's your plan? In his recent book World on the Edge, Lester Brown offers one.

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The Coming Oil Crisis and Your Investments

Dan Solin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Crisis, Middle East Oil, Oil Industry, Oil Prices Rise, Oil Drilling, Oil-Shortage-2011, Peak Oil, Big Oil, Oil, Oil Prices, Business News
Dan Solin

Talk of unrest in the Middle East fills the airways. Will the rising prices in oil end our "tenuous" economic recovery and plunge us into another recession?

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The Carbon Bubble

Gregory Unruh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Peak Oil, Energy, Energy Consumption, Economic Bubble, Fossil Fuels, dot.com Bubble, Commodities Speculation, Capitalism, Carbon Footprint, Housing Bubble, Green News
Gregory Unruh

The carbon bubble, quite simply, is the constantly increasing consumption of fossil fuels. I call it the master bubble because it drives the growth of every economic indicator, from GDP to corn harvests.

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Peak Oil -- New York Times' Op-ed Gets it Right and Wrong

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libya, World, Alternative Energy, Peak Oil, The New York Times, Green, Oil, Obama Administration, Michael Lynch, Media, Huffington Post, Wikileaks, Saudi Arabia, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The environmental threat to our existence and that of generations to come grows every day. Seeking non-fossil fuel solutions to our energy needs are not "rushed government investments" as Michael Lynch pontificates.

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Green News Report: February 17, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co2, Natural Disasters, Epa, Agriculture, Coal, Climate Change Denial, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Energy, Clean Energy Jobs, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Carbon Tax, Mining, Oceans, Alaska, BP Oil Spill, Green Jobs, Regulation, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Gop, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, US Chamber of Commerce, Subsidies, BRAD BLOG, Peak Oil, Carbon Trading, Green News, Chamber of Commerce, Toxic Waste, Extreme Weather, Nuclear Waste, United Kingdom, David Cameron, Whales, Rising Sea Level, Montana, Nuclear Power, Budget, Permafrost, Insurance Companies, Whaling, Sea Shepherd, Big Bird, Solar Flare, Japan, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Heavier s...

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