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Roger Baker : Have We Turned the Corner on Peak Driving?
A window on peak driving. Image from The Auto Channel.Coming soon:Peak oil, peak driving, peak cars Part II: Have we turned the corner on peak driving? By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / June 23, 2011 [This is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Economy, Peak Driving, Peak Oil, Roger Baker, Transportation
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Roger Baker : Have We Turned the Corner on Peak Driving?
A window on peak driving. Image from The Auto Channel.Coming soon:Peak oil, peak driving, peak cars Part II: Have we turned the corner on peak driving? By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / June 23, 2011 This is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Economy, Peak Driving, Peak Oil, Roger Baker, Transportation
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Roger Baker : Playing ‘Peak-a-Boo’ With the Earth
Cartoon by Andrew Weldon / The Age / National Museum of Australia-Canberra.Coming soon:Peak oil, peak driving, peak cars Part I: Fuel prices and the global oil supply By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / June 8, 2011 In recent … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Recovery, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Global Economy, Peak Oil, Roger Baker, Transportation
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Ellen LaConte : Garden As If Your Life Depended on It
Digging in for the future. Image from Civil Eats.Because it will:Garden as if your life depended on it By Ellen LaConte / The Rag Blog / March 31, 2011 Spring has sprung — at least south of the northern tier … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Ecology, Ellen LaConte, Environment, Peak Food, Peak Oil, Sustainability, Urban Gardens
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Ted McLaughlin : The Japan Quake and Nuclear Power
Explosion at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi No 1 plant following Japan’s earthquake and tsunami. Image from Reuters.After the Japan quake:We must rethink nuclear power By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / March 13, 2011 By now everyone knows about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Environment, Japan Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Nuclear Power, Peak Oil, Ted McLaughlin
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Roger Baker : American Political Denial and the ‘Downsizing of Civilization’
Image from Gas 2.0. “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel. I drive a Mercedes. My son drives a Mercedes. His son will ride a camel.” — Saudi warning Our only hope may lie in crisis:American politics … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010 Elections, American Society, Economic Crisis, Global Warming, Peak Oil, Roger Baker
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Roger Baker : ‘Peak Food’ Next Global Crisis?
Image from Care2.The next global crisis:Will ‘peak food’ follow ‘peak oil’? By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / September 23, 2010 Will we soon experience a global peak in food production, similar to peak oil? It is too difficult … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Economics, Food Crisis, Peak Food, Peak Oil, Poverty, Roger Baker
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Roger Baker : The Economic Side Effects of Peak Oil
Image from Urban Sprout.Resource economics:It’s not just about peak oil anymore By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / May 17, 2010 Anyone broadly devoted to the study of resource economics and peak oil sooner or later has to break … Continue reading
Energy Drain : Peak Oil and the Big Spill
Drill, baby, drill:Time to get serious about energy policy By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / April 3, 2010 Yesterday, President Obama went to Louisiana and met with officials there concerning the growing disaster caused by the explosion of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Oil Drilling, Oil Spill, Peak Oil, Ted McLaughlin
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ExxonMobil and the Oil Supply : The Bigger Picture
ExxonMobil CEO Rex W. Tillerson: What, me worry? Photo from Getty Images.The good news and the, well…Exxon says: No need to worry By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / February 17, 2010 Here is the good news as seen … Continue reading
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Tagged Energy, Exxon Mobil, Oil Production, OPEC, Peak Oil, Roger Baker, Texas
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Roger Baker : Can the Economy Recover?
Cartoon from Talking Union.Can the economy recover?And, for that matter, should it? By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2009 [Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy] was my boss. He knows all about peak oil, but he … Continue reading
The Future of Agriculture : Genetics and the Limits of Oil
Agriculture, genetics and a sustainable future… …the oil requirement for U.S. food production and transportation will no doubt loom as a much bigger factor, forcing a restructuring of the food industry. By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / November … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Genetic Engineering, Peak Oil, Sustainability, Transportation
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