Category Archives: Peak Oil

7 Billion Minds, 7 Billion Hearts

Posted on 1 November 2011 by Graham

New on Skepteco: 7 Billion Minds, 7 Billion Hearts

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Skepteco: Peak Oil Personalities

Posted on 30 October 2011 by Graham

I have just resurrected the Skepteco blog and put up a post on Colin Campbell’s forthcoming compilation Peak Oil Personalities in which I have a chapter about my own “Peak Oil journey”. Other contributors include Richard Heinberg, Jeremy Leggett, Michael … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to Rob Hopkins and Transition

Posted on 14 June 2011 by Graham

Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns movement, has posted some comments on my recent blog post The Hockey Stick Illusion in which he has challenged the change of course this blog has taken since its inception in 2006. Since … Continue reading →

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Fleeing Vesuvius: Collapse and the Church of Gaia

Posted on 18 April 2011 by Graham

Book Review Fleeing Vesuvius Overcoming the risks of economic and environmental collapse edited by Richard Douthwaite and Gillian Fallon Feasta 2010 ppbck 417 pp. The recent economic collapse is not just a financial and banking issue, not just an economic … Continue reading →

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Climate alarmism and the Goddess: reflections on a visit to ThinkorSwim

Posted on 20 February 2011 by Graham

If John Gibbons had any intention of trying to allay my fears that there is a strong ideological basis to much climate change activism when he accepted my recent post on climate skeptics, this was quickly forgotten. John’s appraisal of … Continue reading →

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Skepteco #2 Introducing SkeptEco

Posted on 8 June 2010 by Graham

The second edition of the new SkeptEco podcast is up! This week the SkeptEco team- Eoghain, Christina, Michael and myself talk about why we started the podcasts, the relationship between science, rationality and the environmental movement, and what other topics … Continue reading →

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Stewart Brand and Ian McEwan in Dublin

Posted on 3 June 2010 by Graham

Just got back from a short trip to Dublin to see controversial environmentalist Stewart Brand and Booker-prize winning British author Ian McEwan speak at the speak at the Dublin Writers Festival. They were discussing their respective books “Whole Earth Discipline” … Continue reading →

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Interview with Dr. Colin Campbell

Posted on 18 February 2010 by Graham

Zone5 Podcast #3 with Dr. Colin Campbell on Peak Oil, the Financial Collapse, Adaptation and What the Future May Hold Colin Campbell, founder of the Association for the Study of peak Oil and Gas, is officially retired from his career … Continue reading →

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Five Years On: Oil Price Sweepstake

Posted on 6 October 2009 by Graham

Tom has just blogged here about a sweepstake he initiated five years ago with myself, Rob Hopkins, Tom’s partner Ruth and a couple of other friends. We each made a prediction on what we thought the price of oil would … Continue reading →

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Cuban Ambassador visits Cloughjordan

Posted on 5 September 2009 by Graham

On Saturday 29th August the village of Cloughjordan was visited by the Cuban Amabassador, Noel Carillo Thia was the first visit of an ambassador to the village, and came about through a Cuban connection between a family member of one … Continue reading →

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