Biofuel F-18 fighter jet – called the Green Hornet – will be flown for the first time on Earth Day. President Obama Opens Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling w New Bio Fuel Fighter jet at Andrews Air Force Base AFB Energy Security and Independence Defense Department has invested $2.7 billion this year alone to improve energy efficiency.
President Obama announces plans to open new offshore areas for oil and gas development in ways that protect the environment and as part of a larger strategy to ensure energy security and independence.
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President Bush and the Republican’t Nominee John McBush are both trying to exploit our pain at the gas pump into an opportunity to get even more profits for the oil companies by lifting the ban on offshore oil drilling.
This is an environmental disaster waiting to happen and it will NOT help lower gas prices. Worse yet it is an investment in continuing our dependence on oil and our reliance on oil producing countries that hate us.
It is time that we “turn and face the change” to alternative energy, renewable resources, Green Energy.
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Is the oil beginning to run out? Shot over 4 years in 13 countries this film uncovers the myths surrounding the future of world oil supplies. Filmmaker, Andrew Evans lifts the lid on the so called Peak Oil theory, whether oil production is about to fall. He travels to the Middle East to find out how much oil they really have, exposing evidence that they may be exaggerating by up to 50%.
Buy the DVD at www.petroapocalypsenow.com
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(1/27/10) Barack Obama–State of the Union: “To create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies.”
Background Article:
“Obama Said to Seek $54 Billion in Nuclear-Power Loan Guarantees”: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a44IdhfYkf2s
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Olive oil production goes green
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Peak oil expert Richard Heinberg lectured at Aucklnad University to a packed theatre last week during a visit to New Zealand to talk about the future of oil production.
Infonews.co.nz reporter Fraser Mills spoke with Richard after the lecture about how changes in oil production will affect New Zealanders.
to watch the full interview (52mins) visit:
http://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?l=1&t=0&id=7617
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The latest video from Sustainable Earth. Includes new reports from government, the military, intelligence agencies and major NGO’s. It ends on a positive note; the reality of consequence will finally free humanity from short-term thinking.
I looked at literally dozens of reports for this short video…in the end I picked the most credible and those that summed up the prevailing thinking of the world’s best experts. Unfortunately it was impossible to include every detail; this is just an introduction to the subject. For further reading the files which make up this video are below.
Hirsch Report Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management (US Dept of Energy): http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf
Energy Trends and Implications for U.S. Army Installations(US Marine Corp): http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA440265
Global Oil Depletion (UK Energy Research Centre): http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/support/Global%20Oil%20Depletion
Coming Oil Supply Crunch(Chatham House): http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/652/
Peak Oil: A Survey of Security Concerns(Center for New American Security):http://www.cnas.org/node/26
Global Trends 2025: A World Transformed(US National Intelligence Council/Director of National Intelligence):
http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_2025_project.html
DCDC Strategic Trends 2007-2036(UK Ministry of Defence): http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/MicroSite/DCDC/OurPublications/StrategicTrends+Programme/
Global Atmosphere Watch Strategic Plan: 2008 – 2015 (World Meteorological Programme United Nations): http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/gaw_home_en.html
The Great Transition(New Economics Foundation): http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/the-great-transition
Music by Muse: Exogenesis from album Resistance http://muse.mu/
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Hitting “peak oil” (and then riding it all the way down) is going to be the major event in our lives. It’s going to change everything about the way we do everything, and has the potential to completely decimate what we have come to know as “civilization”.
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David Holmgren is co-originator (with Bill Mollison) of the permaculture concept and author of the recent book, PERMACULTURE: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability. He talks about the need to move beyond the lulling hope that ‘green tech’ breakthroughs will allow world-wide ’sustainable consumption’ to the recognition that dwindling oil supplies inevitably mean a mandatory ‘energy descent’ for human civilization across the planet. He argues that permaculture principles provide the best guide to a peaceful societal ‘powering down.”
http://www.holmgren.com.au/html/Publications/Principles.html
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Video of World Oil Consumption by Country represented as foot height per barrel per day according to CIA Factbook. Rendered in Google Earth
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