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Peak Oil Review - May 21

A weekly review including:
-Oil and the Global Economy
-The EU Crisis
-Iran
-Quote of the Week
-Briefs

Oil report from the ”Diplomatic Council on Energy Security”

It feels as though we now have the first informed American report on the oil issue. One is struck by how well they describe the problem that ASPO and my research group have attempted to raise awareness of during the last 10 years.

Oil - May 18

-Dump the pump: could peak oil be voluntary?
-Shell's Majnoon deal highlights Iraq oil target verdict
-Insight - Peak, pause or plummet? Shale oil costs at crossroads

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Transition Money – the need to scale up and get real

Could we really feel that the Transition movement's responses were adequate in the face of the suffering being inflicted by the crisis?

Conceptualizing post-capitalist economics

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein is a well-researched discussion of the history of money, capitalist economics

ODAC Newsletter - May 18

The prospect of weaker oil demand in the face of the Euro crisis was balanced this week by warnings from the IEA and Saudi Arabia.

Circulation and circularity

I was really cheered to see a comment on my post about the need to understand the economy as a complex system, pulling me up for not mentioning the limitations of a Keynesian approach in an era

The commons law project: A vision of green governance

For the past two years or more, I’ve been working on a major research and writing project to try to recover from the mists of history the bits and pieces of what might be called “commons law” (not to be confused with common law).

Mobile slaughterhouses help meat go local

Bruce Dunlop was an engineer before he became a farmer on a picturesque island off the coast of Washington in 2002.

Peak oil notes - May 17

A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week

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