Peak Oil Entrepreneur
by Paula | 2 December 2008 | permalink | comments
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Back to blogging after a very, very busy holiday weekend… someone needs to do a dissertation on the holiday fuel consumption of adult children of divorced-and-remarried parents, who have twice the number of family members to drive around and visit.
In any event, I’ve been flagging some interesting articles for the past week or so.
The Famine of 2009 @ Daily Kos — Sharon Astyk wrote about this too a while back. Credit problems now are causing problems with both harvest and planting for next year’s crop. This is really rather disturbing information and has wide implications for the food supply — especially the supply of cheap, corn- and soy-based food-like substances upon which many people are now more reliant.
Matt Simmons is working on building the world’s largest wind farm @ IHT, via Big Gav — Simmons: “If we don’t do this, we’re going to have to evacuate most of Maine.”
Best Cities to Live in when the Peak Oil Crisis Hits @ Planetizen
Gold @ Act 2 FTW — Mike Ruppert is a master of sniffing out the urgent and the important swirling beneath the murky surface of mainstream journalism. He’s been tracking numerous off-the-radar stories lately, including this one: the spot price of gold is currently listed at hundreds of dollars per ounce less than what it costs to take delivery. Wait times for gold delivery now extend into months, various mints and retailers are completely out of product, and taking delivery at all involves enormous premiums we haven’t seen before. Mike’s articles, in chronological order: Gold Article 1; Gold Article 2; Gold Article 3.
Future Proof Your Business in Kilkenny, Ireland — Over the American holiday weekend, Kilkenny saw what might be the first event specifically organized to address the impact of peak oil on small business. I’ll be keeping an eye on the Future Proof Kilkenny website to see if the good folks over there in my ancestors’ homeland post any notes or reviews of the seminar. Go Kilkenny!
Finally, John Robb has been posting a flurry of excellent analyses of the Mumbai attacks. If you’re not reading Robb’s blog, shame on you. Everything he writes about has important implications for entrepreneurship in an age of decline.![[end article]](/images/article-end.gif){kind=small}
Money as Debt
[YouTube playlist] How the monetary system works.
Peak Oil & Sustainability: CRM's potential impacts
[PDF] White paper from Beagle Research Group, September, 2008
The American Tapeworm
Catherine Austin Fitts, 2003. This was my introduction to finance or, as CAF calls it, the "negative ROI economy."
The Hirsch Report
HTML version
The Hirsch Report
PDF version
The Strategy of the Fighter Pilot
A special kind of military strategy, applied to business
The Truth & Lies of 9/11
Mike Ruppert, 2001 [video]. This was my intro to peak oil. I heard Ruppert's Portland State lecture the morning after its delivery on KBOO's rebroadcast.
Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis
Excerpt from Charles Hugh Smith's book by the same title.
Catherine Austin Fitts
Investment advisor, investment banker, educator, entrepreneur
Charles Hugh Smith
Author of _Marketing in Crisis,_ entrepreneur
Chet Richards
USAF Colonel, retired; author of <i>Certain to Win</i> among other books; USAF, ret.; expertise in business applications of military strategy
Jeff Vail
Energy intelligence analyst, attorney
Jim Puplava
Investment advisor, author, radio host, entrepreneur
John Robb
Author of <i>Brave New War,</i> entrepreneur, former USAF special operations pilot
Mike Ruppert
Investigative journalist (retired), former LAPD detective, entrepreneur
Nate Hagens
Former hedge fund manager, U of Chicago MBA, doctoral candidate @ the Gund Institute
