United States – June 23
Thomas Friedman: Mr. Bush, lead or leave
Utah judge: Peak oil will require rethinking our transportation policies
Same-old, same-old
Red Cavaney: The ‘idle’ oil field fallacy
Lofty oil could lead to more-resilient economy
Day: June 23, 2008
Solutions & sustainability – June 23
Conservationist pins hopes on clotheslines
Urban farmers living off land
What you can do about PO and petrol prices
Cleveland
task force to address future of fuel
The Post-Materialist: Design’s past, future
How to live with just 100 things
One approach to sustainability: Work less
We’re back!
Energy Bulletin is back online. Posting will be hot and heavy as we catch up. (Now adding back-dated posts)
Speculators – June 23
Air cargo: Maybe we just need more strict speculator controls
Oil summit to take on speculators
Former Saudi oil minister says world reaching third oil crisis
Climate – June 23
Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist Hansen
Iowa-like floods to increase with global warming
Bangladesh set to disappear under the waves by 2100
Housing & urban design – June 23
Daniel Lerch: PO challenges for local governments
How NYC’s congestion pricing plan crashed
Speech by Philadelphia Mayor Nutter inspires city planners
Kunstler on NPR
Food & agriculture – June 23
Raj Patel: Is meat off the menu?
Yes, we will have no bananas
Midocean trawlers mine world’s seamounts
How to feed a growing planet
Geopolitics – June 23
Michael Klare interview
BP’s Russian lament
How Iran would retaliate if it comes to war
Bomb Iran? What’s to stop us?
Iran: Stop nukes by bombing oil wells, neocons suggest
United Kingdom – June 23
Don’t rely on the boys with the black stuff, Mr Brown
Poll: most Britons doubt cause of climate change
Monbiot: We must leave the fossil century behind
Wind power to drive green revolution
Revealed: UK’s blueprint for a green revolution
Hard times – June 23
Social crisis in Detroit
One question: How are gas prices affecting you?
Vermont Lt. Gov. Dubie declared an emergency in advance of this winter’s heating season.
Offshore drilling questions – “when?” “how much?” etc.
For years, our slowly sinking energy story has begged for a balanced, science-based energy policy. If drilling our brains out offshore – aka burning the furniture – is really part of the plan, for my kids’ sakes I would like to know what the hell we plan to do after that.
Energy policies – June 23
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air (online book)
Heavyweight physics prof weighs into climate/energy scrap
Energy use turning point? (Economist editor)
Powering the Planet: CNBC special report