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Economy and Joseph Stiglitz thoughts
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 298 seconds
The economy's in the poo? Well world wide doom and gloom emanating from the tanking US Economy is becoming our problem.
John Campbell talks to Joseph Stiglitz.
Stiglitz sure makes a lot of sense - although he over states the role of the Iraq war in the price of oil. Yeah sure it has risen - but it would have risen to these levels largely due to advent of Peak Oil.
Related: credit, crunch, economy, joseph, recession, stiglitz, subprime
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Highest Petrol price in NZ ever
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 602 seconds
13th March 2008
It's Thursday 13th of March - the day petrol prices at New Zealand pumps reached their highest ever point.
High petrol prices have a massive flow on effect throughout all sectors of the economy and flows through to all other purchases.
Hang on folks this ride is not over yet!
Related: highest, new, oil, peak, petrol, price, zealand
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World Food Crisis
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 180 seconds
18 May 2008
The Soaring price of rice is a world wide problem.
In this 3rd part of a series on the world food crisis, the Philippines is looked at - where a population explosion has meant rice paddies are turning into urban sprawl to house instead of feed the millions of extra people.
Related: biofuels, crisis, food, inflation, peak, philippines, price, rice, starvation, world
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World Food Crisis
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 254 seconds
The rising price of staple foods is just beginning to hit first world countries like New Zealand, but in the third world countries they are long past hurting - they are dying.
And from what we through was a good cause - biofuels.
An investigation into what is happening in Haiti.
Their corrupt and useless Government of Haiti also has a huge role in the disaster that is Haiti.
Related: costs, diary, food, fuel, inflation, new, oil, peak, price, rice, rise, wheat, zealand
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Living on NZ$1000 a year!!!
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 286 seconds
Everywhere you look there is headlines about rising food prices, food shortages, there is hte struggle to pay mortgages - you name it.
Well there is one man who has managed to escape all of that.
He has cut his life to the essentials and he lives on a thousand New Zealand Dollars a year.
That man is Nick Brandon from Taranaki, New Zealand - and he is the EXTREME Green Man.
Related: brandon, eco, extreme, green, living, new, nick, sustainable, taranaki, zealand
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Inflation - Petrol Price Rises
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 588 seconds
Inflation - Petrol Prices and you the consumer.
In the past 12 months inflation has reduced your spending power by 3.4%
But without petrol price rises it would only have been 2.5%
Therefore petrol price rises are directly affecting your standard of living.
Supermarket fuel discounts.
Related: economy, energy, new, oil, peak, petrol, price, zealand
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Black Gold - Pt 1 of 2
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 360 seconds
Filled up your car recently? Hurts doesn't it! The best part of 2 dollars a litre now. NZ$100 to fill the average family car - and it's only going to get worse.
So why - well it's about supply and demand - one is outstripping the other.
There is a lot of grumbling on the forecourt
Related: depletion, gasoline, new, oil, peak, prices, zealand
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Ozone Hole finder issues warning
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 133 seconds
The man who 20 years ago discovered the hole in the Ozone layer above Antarctica , has returned to the continent and issued another global warning.
Jonathan Shanklin was one of a group of scientists who helped bring about the Montreal Protocol, the international agreement on Ozone control, but he feels that the world is still not moving fast enough
Related: action, antarctica, carbon, dioxide, glacier, icesheets, melt, montreal, ozone, protocol, shanklin
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Clean Green New Zealand?
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 290 seconds
The clean green image New Zealand promotes is in danger of becoming false advertising.
An Environment Ministry study has found unacceptable contamination of the water we drink, and the air we breath, and dairy farming is one the big culprits.
Related: clean, energy, environment, green, growth, investment, new, population, state, tourist, zealand
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Property in New Zealand - it's getting bleak
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 526 seconds
Selling below GV
The rise and rise of mortgage sales
The Impact on rental Properties - with a special guest appearance with Tim "No, No, I got wise" Watkins
It' so good to own your own house outright -without a mortgage and in an area that you are happy to live in for quite a while.
Oh yes it is all good for some.
Related: 2008, market, mortgage, new, property, recession, rental, sale, slump, zealand
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Black Gold - Pt 2 of 2
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 369 seconds
Filled up your car recently? Hurts doesn't it! The best part of 2 dollars a litre now. NZ$100 to fill the average family car - and it's only going to get worse.
So why - well it's about supply and demand - one is outstripping the other.
There is a lot of grumbling on the forecourt.
Part 2 of 2
Related: depletion, gasoline, new, oil, peak, prices, zealand
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Single blade Wind Turbine
Posted by: PeakOilNZ
Video duration: 146 seconds
15 June 2008
A trio of Dunedin Engineers are looking to harness Otago's strong winds to test their unique wind turbine.
The single blade wind turbine can protect itself from being damaged in high winds, and it could even bring a financial windfall for energy efficient households.
Related: blade, electricty, new, power, single, turbine, wind, zealand
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