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Turning Oil Into Water: The Middle Eastern Resource Accident Waiting To Happen?

July 10, 2009 · 3 comments

in Middle East, OPEC, agriculture, commodities, energy, oil, sustainability, water

“Saudi Arabia isn’t just running out of oil — it’s running out of water.  So is the whole region.”  So explains Jeff Rubin in his latest book, Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller (2009) (read my review of Jeff Rubin here).
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Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller – Jeff Rubin (Review)

July 6, 2009 · 21 comments

in books, commodities, energy, environment, international economy, oil, reviews, sustainability

Are you liking the new frugality trend?  Get used to it.  Frugality is “in” and here to stay – but not because the U.S. housing and credit markets collapsed and 30% of everyone’s savings have disappeared.  According to Jeff Rubin, ex-senior economist at CIBC World Markets, the growing scarcity in the world’s fossil fuels supply [...]

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What I Learned About the Economy From Watching Food, Inc. (dir. Robert Kenner, 2009)

June 30, 2009 · 17 comments

in agriculture, business, capitalism, commodities, economy, films, health, infrastructure, nutrition, survival

NB: As you can imagine from watching a film like Food, Inc., it can be hard to separate the emotion and just report “calmly” on the plain facts presented by the film.  Originally I wrote this the same day I saw it, but I’ve since gone back and edited it to try to tone down [...]

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It’s Not a Depression if We Don’t Make It One

February 24, 2009 · 4 comments

in depression, emergency fund, psychology, recession

With all the new recent serious talk again of a Great Depression (or just a “Depression”) now that confidence seems to have totally dissipated in regard to the economic stimulus projects (not that they won’t work – but just that they might not work soon enough, and the ensuing debt they create will have its [...]

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