 Pacific students screen 'Crude Awakening'
(The Hillsboro Argus: Tue, 27 Nov) FOREST GROVE - On Nov. 18, Pacific University's Students for Environmental Activism club and the group Washington County Peak Oil showed the film "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash" on the Pacific campus.
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 Get out of your box alternative calendar
(Asheville Citizen-Times: Fri, 30 Nov) Out of the Box is a calendar of alternative events. Want to submit an item? Send information at least two weeks before publication to Communitynews@CITIZEN-TIMES.com. Sorry, we can't take information over the phone.
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 HopeDance Marks 10 Years
(Santa Barbara Independent: Thu, 29 Nov) In the first essay of Sustainability: Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope , environmental writer Derrick Jensen makes an urgent comparison between the Holocaust and the death — by dams — of salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
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 Commodity prices leap in October
(Investment Executive: Wed, 28 Nov) This year has turned out to be a favourable one for resource producers, with overall commodity prices up 17.1% year-over-year in October and 10.6% in the year-to-date.
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 Never enough gold jewelry
(Asia Times: Wed, 28 Nov) Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The Telegraph.co.uk reports that the US Academy of Sciences calculates that "some 26% of all the copper and 19% of all the zinc that ever existed in the earth's crust has already been lost to mankind, mostly wasted in milling or smelting or buried in landfills."
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 Oil output a question mark
(Tulsa World: Wed, 28 Nov) Employees of Nabors Industries Ltd. mark equipment on a drilling rig in the Orinoco Belt near San Diego de Cabrutitas, Venezuela. The country recently nationalized its oil fields.
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 Peak Oil Passnotes: Here's My Tupi's Worth
(Resource Investor: Fri, 23 Nov) One of the biggest finds in recent years has turned up off the coast of Brazil. It is a genuinely big field, but as a peak in world production approaches, it hardly matters.
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Renewable energy expert sees room for improvement
