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Peak Oil News Friday January 5th 2007

Peak Oil Action Group to meet
(The Eureka Reporter: Sun, 31 Dec) A "Whole Humboldt Catalogue" resource meeting will be held in the Senior Room at the Arcata Community Center on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Commissioner calls for more local power
(Stuff: Tue, 02 Jan) Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Morgan Williams is calling for a more coordinated approach to make local power generation a reality.

Peak Oil Passnotes: 2006 - A Year of Confusion
(Resource Investor: Fri, 29 Dec) RI predicted an oil price of $61 on Christmas Day back when crude was lapping around the $75 mark. Amazingly ... or should that be, of course, we were right. It was one of the few predictions in 2006 that actually came true.

Energizing America
(Sierra Club: Fri, 29 Dec) {Editor's Note} In the following pages, Sierra explores what our nation can do to meet the challenge of global warming. "Everything hinges on our ability to somehow gracefully make the jump from fossil fuel to ... something else," says author Bill McKibben in our opening story. But to what?

(12/27/2006) One Year Older, One Year Wiser.
(Willamette Week: Wed, 27 Dec) News (NEWS STORY) As we close out 2006, WW learns by revisiting three cover stories that predictions can be dangerous, one Portlander can make a difference and there is life after war.

Mark Green: W & Iraq - and the "Luck" of Democracy
(HuffingtonPost: Wed, 20 Dec) In his recent book on democracy, scholar Alan Wolfe concludes that while democratic governance is superior to other forms, our American democracy works "mostly [as] a matter of luck." Our luck is running out. First was the coin toss of a presidential election in 2000 - where the winner was precisely the wrong person for the new global economy and global terrorism requiring leaders who ...

Main Menu
(Falls Church News-Press: Thu, 21 Dec) The Metropolitan Washington Area Council of Governments (COG) recently released its 2006 Strategic Energy Plan. Reports like this of course are lengthy -220 pages- and are unlikely to be read outside of a narrow circle of local officials and energy professionals.

Farmland as an Investment Asset
(Resource Investor: Wed, 20 Dec) World grain supplies, measured as days of supply, have dwindled to the levels of the early 1970s. Another farm boom period could be possible.

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