Will the End of Oil Be the End Of Food?
American agriculture is fatally dependent on oil. A few forward-thinking farmers are trying to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. Farmer Richard Randall doesn't believe in the notion of "peak oil," the argument that civilization will soon experience an acute - and irreversible - petroleum scarcity that will fundamentally alter our way of life. A 61-year-old wheat and sorghum grower from Scott City, Kan., Randall says he's seen high oil prices before, and that today's expensive petroleum is just part of a natural market cycle that will eventually adjust itself, leading to lowered fuel costs.

Broad Based Organizing in Hamilton
What do the Lister Block, Aerotropolis, GRIDS, Hamilton's response to peak oil, and Hamilton's response to climate change have in common? In all cases, Hamilton City Council is ignoring its own policies and guidelines to impose decisions that violate the city's long term planning goals. Since the early 1990s, when Vision 2020 became Hamilton's official planning guide, this city has been notorious for trotting out its policies selectively and ignoring them entirely when they point in an inconvenient direction.

Peak Oil Forecasters Win Converts on Wall Street to $200 Crude
On a sweltering Tuesday in mid-July, in the fields outside Pisa, Italy, Willem Kadijk scribbles notes as a ragtag troupe of doomsayers predict the end of the Oil Age. With his shaved head, jeans and sandals, Kadijk, 48, blends into a crowd gathered under a white tent to hear of the coming calamity. The death of cheap, abundant crude, the forecasters warn, might unleash war and plunge the world into a second Great Depression. That's not the prophecy of some apocalyptic cult. Kadijk, a hedge fund adviser, had flown from Amsterdam to attend a conference on a geologic theory known as peak oil.

The Peak Oil Crisis: Labor Day 2006
What a difference a month makes. Just four weeks ago Hezbollah and the Israelis were engaged in the heaviest fighting the world has seen since the US overran Iraq. When the fighting started, oil prices jumped on concerns that oil exports might be affected. In July there were fears US motorists might draw down the country’s gasoline reserves during the summer driving binge. Soon thereafter, BP noticed that some of its Prudhoe oil pipelines were rusting through, threatening an important share of the US’s West Coast oil supply. Finally, the hurricane season was about to begin.