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Peak Oil

Two quite interesting stories in the press. First up is the Guardian’s reporting of Lloyds of London’s acknowledgment of Peak Oil.

One of the City’s most respected institutions has warned of “catastrophic consequences” for businesses that fail to prepare for a world of increasing oil scarcity and a lower carbon economy.

The Lloyd’s insurance market and the highly regarded Royal Institute of International Affairs, known as Chatham House, says Britain needs to be ready for “peak oil” and disrupted energy supplies at a time of soaring fuel demand in China and India, constraints on production caused by the BP oil spill and political moves to cut CO2 to halt global warming.

“Companies which are able to take advantage of this new energy reality will increase both their resilience and competitiveness. Failure to do so could lead to expensive and potentially catastrophic consequences,” says the Lloyd’s and Chatham House report “Sustainable energy security: strategic risks and opportunities for business”.

Japan, low tech country?

Quite an interesting article which is a bit of an overview of the paradox of Japan being consider to be high-tech… yet being completely backward sometimes when it comes to technology.

Japan to Build Naval Base in Djibouti.

More to this than meets the eye?

Excellent video. Love the seriously geeky big time analysis environmental impact of wiping up a spillage of mayonnaise from the floor

Found via Bomber & Maiko & Toby.

Other stuff

Considering this I feel was a rather big story, I was surprised and annoyed that it never appeared anyway in the front pages, or even lead on the front page of the business section.

And finally, ahhh, gotta love Public-Sector waste and inefficiency (there’s some things that deserve to be too important and need to be under national control, yet somethings should just be kept out of the public sector).
This is the story of Cycle-Route planning!

Hidetake Enomoto on Transition Town in Japan.

Sometimes, I feel that the whole Transition Town things is a bit wishy-washy hippy… but at the end of the day, the goal is commendable and something that we sort of need to be aiming at. I hope it starts to take off a bit in Japan.