Tompkins County Relocalization Project

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Some notable recent items of interest to this list:

"Beyond the age of petroleum" -- article by Michael T. Klare in
The Nation with special emphasis on military implications,
archived at Energy Bulletin:

   http://energybulletin.net/36203.html

"Crude oil: the supply outlook" -- major review by the Energy
Watch Group:

   http://postcarboncities.net/files/EWG_Oilreport_10-2007.pdf

Summary of key findings from the above:

   http://postcarboncities.net/node/1751

"How Can We Outlive Our Way of Life?" -- Technical paper by Tad
Patzek of UC Berkeley with special emphasis on the inadequacy of
biofuels as replacements for petroleum and the relative
superiority of photovoltaics, prepared for the OECD:

   http://petroleum.berkeley.edu/papers/Biofuels/OECDSept102007TWPatzek.pdf

Jon Bosak
Chair, TCLocal