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Seattle, WA, February 23, 2010 -- Northwest Energy Transitions Group (NWET) will give a presentation about "peak oil" at the Bellevue Regional Library at 7:00 p.m. on March 10. "Peak oil" is the peaking and subsequent decline of worldwide petroleum output due to the gradual depletion of known oil fields and the increasingly rare discovery of significant new fields. Many experts believe that such

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Below is an article about Peak Autos, which I found interesting.Automobiles is an area of great interest to me, and probably one of the factors that has drawn me to learn more about Peak Oil. I grew up always loving cars, and America has been known among many things as "the land of cars". After all, no other country has more cars and roads than the US. But this scenario seems be changing.I have

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Last week we had a meeting in Seattle for Peak Oilers - we are attempting to create some Peak Oil Task Force group or something similar. We were recently asked a question by a gentleman who emailed us, and below is a response by Greg Rock.Question:It is not clear to me if "peak oil" refers only to conventionallydrilled oil or to fossil fuel substitutes such as coal-to-oil/gas. Mymain fear is not

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More on Seattle's garbage as a renewable energy source:Renewable power is an expensive proposition for Seattle"Getting energy from garbage reflects a new environmental truth: renewable power is more valuable because we've made it so.Seattle City Light's announcement Thursday of a 20-year arrangement to buy electricity produced in Oregon from landfill gas was the latest part of a rush to buy

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The article below vaguely mentions that "Seattle has begun getting electricity from its own garbage and will soon get more":Garbage power: Seattle touts renewable energy sourceIs it just me or does this article suggest that we can convert garbage into electricity as in "the more garbage we produce, the more energy we have?" or "let's produce more garbage so that we can increase the share of

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Last December I moved to Seattle after getting married. I had been living on the Eastside for a year and doing what most people who live on one side of the water and have to cross to the other side for work do: I drove from Kirkland to Seattle almost daily in order to go to work. In case you don't know the Seattle area very well, this is one of the most effective ways to waste huge amounts of

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by Frank Kaminskifrank.kaminski@gmail.comCulture Change: Civil Liberty, Peak Oil, and the End of EmpireBy Alexis Zeigler136 pp. Ecodem Press – 2007. $10.00.With superb insight, wisdom and erudition—one is almost tempted to say omniscience—Alexis Zeigler’s Culture Change charts an ambitious course for the future of our civilization. The book calls for a revolution to bring about what Zeigler terms

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There is a great misnomer coined by the oil industry, and which has existed for several decades. It is the term "oil production", which suggests that oil is an endless resource since it can be "produced". Of course that is far from reality. Oil cannot be produced. Oil can only be extracted. So the correct term that better represents reality is "oil extraction".Oil extraction is what oil companies

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by Frank Kaminskifrank.kaminski@gmail.comNot One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil SpillBy Riki Ott327 pp. Chelsea Green Publishing – Nov. 2008. $21.95. Riki Ott’s book Not One Drop is a history of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, told from the perspective of those most affected by it. Cutting through the cloak of willful deception, public relations campaigns and skewed,

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by Frank Kaminski (Peak Oil Advocate)frank.kaminski@gmail.comRhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for Twenty-First Century ActivistsBy Jason Del Gandio235 pp. New Society Publishers – Nov. 2008. $17.95.Radical activists are in the midst of a crisis. They have important messages to share, but they don’t do nearly a good enough job of communicating those messages to the general public. And their

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Check out this video and see where our alternative technology is today, at least off the shelf technology. It's pretty high-tech stuff.Notice that all the energy produced by the solar panels and wind turbine are not enough to power the truck and camper! As a matter of fact, the energy produced is not even enough to power just the truck.Now, of course this is likely a diesel truck (or maybe

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This blog is about energy and Peak Oil, and yet recently I have been tempted to address the financial markets, which is directly tied to Peak Oil, even though most people do not understand the link.The link is pretty simple: money, in the form of paper and coins (fiat money or IOU), or digits in a computer that represent an amount in a bank account - money has no intrinsic value. Money is nothing

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Billy Bob Joe explains how bailout of US automakers will save US economy:

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Recently, I've had second thoughts about starting and establishing a new sustainability group in Seattle - after realizing the amount of work that is involved. Also, I have noticed that when I share with people the idea of creating such a group, that many people do not get it. Some people probably think I have nothing better to do. Others think issues to do with sustainability is what I am most

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By Greg RockLink to Obama’s Speech on Infrastructure Investment:http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGxtgjINFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT: RIGHT PLAN WRONG ACTIONAn investment in our infrastructure is exactly what this country needs right now. Not only will it stimulate our economy, and create jobs our country is also in need of a major infrastructure overhaul. I believe this

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One theme of human history is domination. Humans want to dominate each other, they want to dominate themselves, and they want to dominate the world itself. If humans had the power to dominate the weather they would. But until that happens, we have domesticated a lot of animals for our benefit, and invented agriculture.This is why wars and slavery have always been prevalent throughout human

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by Frank KaminskiKevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason’s novel Ill Wind (Tor Books, 1995) is a masterfully wrought science fiction epic depicting a world after oil—and, in the process, touching on a number of peak oil-related themes.However, unlike the other post-oil novels published so far, Ill Wind isn’t about peak oil. In those other novels, oil has gradually dribbled away while we’ve steadfastly

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by Frank KaminskiKevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason’s novel Ill Wind (Tor Books, 1995) is a masterfully wrought science fiction epic depicting a world after oil—and, in the process, touching on a number of peak oil-related themes.However, unlike the other post-oil novels published so far, Ill Wind isn’t about peak oil. In those other novels, oil has gradually dribbled away while we’ve steadfastly

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An article came out on MSNBC today titled Wanting to divorce, but unable to afford it, which also has a comments section.Having grown up in Brazil, I remember reading and learning that the United States had the highest rate of divorce in the world. Hollywood actors and actresses, that is, the people with the most amount of wealth and fame in the world, and whose lives are often shown to the

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An article came out on MSNBC today titled Wanting to divorce, but unable to afford it, which also has a comments section.Having grown up in Brazil, I remember reading and learning that the United States had the highest rate of divorce in the world. Hollywood actors and actresses, that is, the people with the most amount of wealth and fame in the world, and whose lives are often shown to the

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Recently I had the great opportunity of meeting Ianto Evans who is the pioneer of cob house construction in the US.He is also the author of the book The Hand-Sculpted House, which is an excellent book that can teach you the techniques to build a cob house. You can order this book directly from Cob Cottage Company, or you can get it through Amazon:Being in the presence of Ianto Evans was awesome.

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Recently I had the great opportunity of meeting Ianto Evans who is the pioneer of cob house construction in the US.He is also the author of the book The Hand-Sculpted House, which is an excellent book that can teach you the techniques to build a cob house. You can order this book directly from Cob Cottage Company, or you can get it through Amazon:Being in the presence of Ianto Evans was awesome.

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