Food & agriculture – Apr 27
Experts may have found what’s bugging the bees
Feeding the world sustainably
Self-sufficiency on a balcony
Duck-Rice
Biofuels – Apr 27
MIT: The case for burying charcoal
Reduce corn stover for ethanol to preserve soil quality?
Peak oil – Apr 27
Interactive depletion atlas
Matthew Simmons speaks to students
Jeff Vail: Efficiency policy, Jevon’s Paradox
Fuelling projects at a high price
Video review: It’s a Crude Awakening
Protecting Creation – Apr 27
Vatican issues new green message for world’s Catholics
Timeline: The frightening future of Earth
E.O.Wilson: Acting now to save life on Earth
The Limits to Lakoff (progressivism vs limits to growth)
My green creds are greener than yours!
So, here’s a little “mole” for anyone who condescends based on one’s hue of green. The contributions of all of us are needed to stabilize patient Earth’s life-support systems.
Climate – Apr 27
Industry caught in carbon ‘smokescreen’ (investigation of carbon credits)
’08 hopefuls tout climate-change plans
Climate change bites (health blowback)
Wolfowitz deputy under fire over climate
Swedes would lower living standard to help climate
Oil industry – Apr 27
Video interview with Shell Oil president
ExxonMobil doubles lobby expenditures
Daniel Yergin on energy’s challenges
Energy Bulletin taking a break
Energy Bulletin won’t be posting much for the next few days. Back on Thursday.
House hearing puts the heat on climate stagnators
The highest level investigation of global warming in the history of the U.S. Congress began Wednesday morning when Representative Ed Markey (D-MA), chairman of the brand-spanking new House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, banged down the gavel. [Excerpts]
Hot politics
Frontline documentary that examines the politics behind the U.S. government’s failure to act on the biggest environmental problem of our time. Viewable online.
ODAC News – Apr 25
1a/ UK economy ‘skating on thin ice’ (BBC News, Mon 23 Apr)
1b/ UK economy is ‘skating on thin ice’, says report (The Independent, Mon 23 Apr)
2a/ Russia’s Energy Sector Requires Investment of $542 Bln by 2020 (FC Novosti, Mon 23 Apr)
2b/ LUKoil Ready to Begin Qurna Project in Iraq(FC Novosti, Wed 25 Apr)
Peak oil crisis: By order of the governor
We are really going to have to hurt badly before a consensus will form around decisive action that will upset the status quo.
