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The Power of Community How Cuba Survived Peak Oil Documentary

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:50:59 +0000

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half and food by 80 percent people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call “The Special Period.” The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the only country that has faced such a crisis the massive reduction of fossil fuels is an example of options and hope.

Duration : 0:2:8

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Oil Depletion (Part 4): Shifts in Production

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:07:10 +0000

The fourth in a multi-part series which discusses why our traditional view of cheap energy may be changing. This entry discusses how oil production shifted from the United States and a handful of major suppliers to a more plural global network.

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Duration : 0:5:21

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Oil Depletion (Part 1): Why Depletion Matters

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:02:04 +0000

The first in a multi-part series examining our changing energy situation. The first entry introduces the concept of depletion and details why consumers are generally unaware of pending shortages when supplies continue to increase. Future entries explain the mathematical concept of linearization and apply the technique to domestic oil production. The series concludes with a look at global production and limitations of the model.

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Duration : 0:8:15

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Peak Oil happened in 2007 or was it 2006 part 2 of 2.MPG

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:46:23 +0000

It doesn’t help that Nixon canceled the 1944 Bretton Woods economic agreement and Bill Clinton abolished the Glass Steagall Act which had required a responsible banking structure; commercial banks had to be separate from investment banks and were not allowed to gamble with deposits, pension funds etc. Hundreds of trillions of imagined dollars, more than what the world’s economy and capital infrastructure are worth, are on the books of a few banks now essentially as an expression of a modern feudal status. This feudal class of bank executives that managed to secure about half of total bail out funds for personal benefits, in order to distinguish itself requires impoverished and debt enslaved masses. Free trade in the banking sector represents 21. century Letters of Marque to the banks, royal authority for robbery. The result has been a focus shift, a harmful influence on the economy for many years now. There is a neglect of investment into the economy, infrastructure and into sustainable productivity by banks and in extension by governments. Real money and monopoly money don’t mix, that is one problem of the bail out heist which in the meantime has swollen 12 fold from 700 billions to 8.5 trillions in the US alone. US government debt is doubling as we speak, in a vital sense tying the hands of the Obama administration to fix anything as economist Michael Hudson but also the writer, researcher and former investment banker Nomi Prins point out. In combination with the industrial stuff of life, oil, diminishing, a perfect, global storm of destruction has broken loose.

Business operations are complicated and cant just come and go with the moody speed of an extreme crude price volatility; even a lot of oxygen will not do much for a dead patient. The shrinking flow of crude oil had stopped the flow of inflated capital.
Sounds like a straightforward reason why Wall Street was caught with their pants down right after the Peak Oil generated crude oil prize shock and not some other time?

The all important sweet, light crude comes from 400 big, tired fields producing 75% of all oil and representing only 1% of all fields and they are on line since the 70s and from before. After all, the peak of new oil field discovery was in the year JFK was assassinated, 1963, a very long time ago. Between then and now there lies a long, steep and hardened slope of decline for total new oil discoveries. There is no recovery for a national oil economy and not for a global oil economy. Economic activity will feel in a short coupled way the boa constrictor like tightening grip of a more and more shrinking oil production the instant it wants to take a breath. Then the crude prize will spike way up and throttle economic activity.
Crucial time was wasted since Reaganomics killed an already fledgling green energy conversion in the early 80s which we are reminded to by Bushs and Harpers free trade platitudes at the 2008 Doha trade talks and now at the APEC meeting in Lima; At this point Harpers globalization talk scares investors, Reagan had more listeners for his fantasy ideas. Lets all give our heads a shake, walk up a mountain, or do whatever it takes to think it over.
A good time to remember the journalist Edward R. Murrow who fought ideologues and censorship in the McCarthy era and who was known for his trade mark closing line on the CBS evening news casts: Good Night and Good Luck.

Duration : 0:0:3

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Ep102: Peak Oil (Part 1.2)

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:46:11 +0000

Are we running out? Marko’s take on world oil production and reserves. Part 1 of 2.

Duration : 0:4:41

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T. Boone Pickens: we peaked last year, globally

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:22:13 +0000

Legendary Texas oilman and chair of BP Capital, T. Boone Pickens, holds an impromptu video question and answer session at ASPO Houston with Global Public Media’s Julian Darley and other journalists. Pickens talks about the peaking of world oil production, which he says occurred in 2006. View the entire video interview at GlobalPublicMedia.com

Duration : 0:1:3

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Pat Murphy — Beyond Sustainability: Surviving Peak Oil – 2/4

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:56:58 +0000

http://localfuture.org

How long can this global oil supply level be maintained? When will the decline in oil supply

begin? How will that impact already rising gasoline prices, oil prices, food prices and the

struggling state of the world economy?

To address shrinking fossil fuel supplies, increasing CO2 emissions, and rising global inequity

we need to make immediate and drastic cuts to our energy use. Learn about viable curtailment

strategies for food, housing, and transportation, why most “sustainable” and “green” techniques

are inadequate, and how we can create cooperative low-energy communities to survive.

Pat Murphy is the Executive Director of Community Solutions in Yellow Springs, Ohio, co-writer

and co-producer of the film, “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” (2006)

and author of the forthcoming book “Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and

Climate Change.”

The International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability

explores the root cause of rising gas prices, global warming, biodiversity loss and other

indicators of global unsustainability.

http://localfuture.org

Duration : 0:10:0

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Ep103: Peak Oil (Part 2)

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:56:57 +0000

Are we running out? Marko’s take on world oil production and reserves. Part 2 of 2.

Duration : 0:4:16

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Pat Murphy — Beyond Sustainability: Surviving Peak Oil – 4/4

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:56:53 +0000

http://localfuture.org

How long can this global oil supply level be maintained? When will the decline in oil supply begin? How will that impact already rising gasoline prices, oil prices, food prices and the struggling state of the world economy?

To address shrinking fossil fuel supplies, increasing CO2 emissions, and rising global inequity we need to make immediate and drastic cuts to our energy use. Learn about viable curtailment strategies for food, housing, and transportation, why most “sustainable” and “green” techniques are inadequate, and how we can create cooperative low-energy communities to survive.

Pat Murphy is the Executive Director of Community Solutions in Yellow Springs, Ohio, co-writer and co-producer of the film, “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” (2006) and author of the forthcoming book “Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change.”

The International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability explores the root cause of rising gas prices, global warming, biodiversity loss and other indicators of global unsustainability.

http://localfuture.org

Duration : 0:8:58

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ABC Four Corners – Peak Oil (2006) part 1

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:00:09 +0000

When I was little what scared me most was what might be hiding in my closet in the middle of the night. Any monster in my closet has nothing on peak oil O.O So next time your child is upset cause he thinks a monster might be in the closet, just sit him down and explain peak oil. He won’t think the monster so bad anymore.

Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. The concept is based on the observed production rates of individual oil wells, and the combined production rate of a field of related oil wells. The aggregate production rate from an oil field over time usually grows exponentially until the rate peaks and then declines—sometimes rapidly—until the field is depleted. This concept is derived from the Hubbert curve, and has been shown to be applicable to the sum of a nations domestic production rate, and is similarly applied to the global rate of petroleum production. Peak oil is often confused with oil depletion; peak oil is the point of maximum production while depletion refers to a period of falling reserves and supply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

Duration : 0:9:50

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