Corn ethanol – May 13
Hershey mired in chocolate mess (corn prices)
Ethanol seen chomping into corn crops
USDA economist projects 58% growth in ethanol
Transport – May 13
“Car brain” confesses, pleads: ‘make driving annoying and expensive’
Public purse props up fossil fuel industries in Australia
Monbiot: Air traffic out of control
Flights reach record levels despite warnings over climate change
Local efforts – May 13
Rotterdam wants to halve CO2-emissions
Brisbane: Back to the drawing board for PO and climate change
UK”s Brown to build five eco towns
Local Oregon experts discuss ways to stop climate change
Peak oil and coal – May 13
Daily Mail: Oil-mageddon
Pickens: A future with less oil and more hard choices
Jerome a Paris:
China’s coal production to peak in a few years
Energy news portal – Global Oil Watch
Climate – May 13
Warming triggers ‘alarming’ retreat of Himalayan glaciers
James Lovelock’s strange bedfellows (skeptics)
Nature: A clear direction (the IPCC and geoengineering)
Is this what it takes to save the world? (geoengineering)
Tar sands – May 11
85-year-old grandmother takes on Syncrude
The censored website
Choke point for oil sands may be water shortage
Transport – May 11
Monbiot: Air traffic out of control
Flights reach record levels despite warnings over climate change
Frenetic lifestyle puts the boots to leisurely strolls
Climate – May 11
Surge in carbon levels shows vegetation struggling to cope
US ‘bids to water down global warming declaration’
To cool the planet: regulation vs market
Climate change could lead to global conflict say UK foreign secretary
Web and media – May 11
“World Without Oil” – alternative reality game
Project Budburst: Springtime citizen science
Craigslist founder: People who run printing presses ‘screwed’
Videojug may just help save The world
Peak oil – May 11
‘Era of cheap energy is over,’ says Buckee
Rep. Bartlett commemorates Admiral Rickover’s 1957 speech on energy
DOE says computer tools to extract more oil
The sustainable marriage
I’ve heard over and over about marriages struggling when partners have different ideas about the right thing to do about peak oil/sustainability/climate change. There are real and serious reasons that people are better off going into hard times with stable marriages and good support systems.
Energy policy – May 10
World Bank: A world of difference in energy access
IEA:
Outlining the options for our energy future
Castro on energy and biofuels
