Stories tagged with "kris can"

Peak Oil Media: Matt Simmons gets more pessimistic on CNBC, Heinberg, and others...

A Matt Simmons phone interview on CNBC, in which Matt sounds a very loud and certain clarion call about our direction--calling it (potentially) "The Great American Disaster." I think it is safe to say that Matt has gotten pretty pessimistic, even doomerish lately.

Under the fold, more from Richard Heinberg with a great review of accelerating events, Phil Hart talks peak oil on Aussie TV, KrisCan interviews Andre Angelantoni about post-peak life, and David Bell of ASPO-Oz appears on Bloomberg.

Putting a New Face on Selling Peak Oil: Kris Can

I think it might be safe to say that the peak oil movement has long had a mostly older male and perhaps somewhat, erm, geeky set of spokespeople - from James Howard Kunstler to Richard Heinberg to Matthew Simmons--in that they've all tried to convince people through logic, facts & figures and long speeches at conferences that we should be worried about PO. And even our own staff here at the Oil Drum--aside from Gail and Leanan--are middle age to older men. (Though it should be noted that we are making some changes soon to add a little more diversity and different types of media to TOD...but more on that later!)

So how else can we generate Peak Oil awareness? Kriscan - a young woman with a video blog that's making her PO pitch using all sorts of innovative marketing techniques - asking people on the street, making a song about peak oil, and yes even resorting to the types of suggestive body language more typical of an MTV music video (think Christina Aguilera) than college professor lecture.