Staff, Crikey . The popular online politics magazine, Crikey, grilled Adam Grubb, the Australian editor of Energy Bulletin, about oil futures.
"Peak oil and climate change present us with an unprecedented challenge: how to begin consuming radically less fossil fuels while maintaining dignified lifestyles and essential services."

Staff, Energy Bulletin. The Oil Drum
Ralph Nader
Wharton School professors
Andrew Leonard at Salon (new)

Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press. Those living in the world's new mega- and hypercities are going to have a far tougher time. Oil has built these monstrosities where 100s of millions will be trapped without direct access to food supplies and cooking fuel. Someday, the historians will note that the collapse of many megacities was among the first real tragedies of peak oil.

Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA. A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
- Prices and consumption
- Europe
- India

Annie Dunn Watson, Vermont Commons. "Things" are certainly unfolding quickly now -- the mainstream is filled with energy news, rising costs of food, job losses. Some of us are moving beyond the "peak oil education" stage to "hey, there are some things we can do!" moments with the newly awakened. It's a critical time to be awake, active, and available. This is what we anticipated, and is what we've been preparing for.So why doesn't it feel good?

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Exxon to cut funding to climate change denial groups
Exxon's Texas-size war chest
For Big Oil, does the future look too much like the past?

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Gordon Brown urges increased oil supply
Strahan: Brown doesn't get the oil crisis
UK cuts taxes on oil fields, opens areas to development
National Grid blamed for UK power cuts
Fuel protest: lorry drivers flex their muscles

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Thomas L. Friedman: Truth or consequences (about energy policy)
Australia: Fuel price debate ignores real issue
China says `unwise' to import more oil at high prices
China: Coal, oil, gas, power, agricultural goods supply must be ensured

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Alex Steffen: The real green heretics
Stratfor: Geopolitics of $130 oil
The final act of the Age of Oil has begun
The Carbon Age: the history of carbon

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Monty Don: gardeners of the world must unite
Incentives for farmers to grow organic in Australia
Advice to teens and parents about peak oil
Sustainable Bellingham - grassroots organizing is key

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Dow Chemical hikes prices 20 percent, citing energy
Will soaring transport costs reverse globalization?
Dallas area residents feel grip of gas prices

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Cutting fuel subsidies will decrease oil demand
Asian countries begin to burst the oil bubble
Crude prices may have peaked but developing countries hold the key

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Indonesia to Pull Out of OPEC
Oil crisis triggers fevered scramble for the world's seabed
Race for the Arctic seabed arrives in Greenland

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Sweden turning sewage into a gasoline substitute
Welsh energy drive turns the valleys green again
Powering the rain shadow

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Amartya Sen: The rich get hungrier
Food banks squeezed by prices, demand
Soaring energy prices 'force up cost of food'

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Cuba's agricultural decline sparks major reform
India's rice farmers abandon paddies, deepening global shortage
Grain prices grow, but so do risks

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Fuel protests herald grim times for European green policy
New climate report foresees big changes
Dire look at next 50 years in U.S.
Freeman Dyson's selective vision

Shepherd Bliss, Energy Bulletin. The pace quickens. The signs are more numerous. We need even more than food security; we need food sovereignty. Who controls your food? Growing at least part of one's own food--and having something to trade--will be essential to survival.

John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report. If the end of industrial society proves to be a slow decline rather than a sudden catastrophe, we stand to lose more of today's cultural heritage and knowledge base, not less. What can be done in the face of so challenging a future?

Richard Heinberg, MuseLetter via Global Public Media. Coal currently looks like a solution to many of America's fast-growing energy problems. However, this is a solution that, if applied on a broad scale, seems certain only to exacerbate the nation's energy dilemma in the long run, as well as contributing to an impending global climate catastrophe. (Excerpts)