Peak oil – Apr 17
UC Berkeley study: Risks of the oil transition
Peak Oil Law Center (what’s the future?)
“Crude Demand” film reviewed in Louisville
Humbugs Along the Potomac
With a track record for erroneous forecasting that verges on the spectacular, why should anyone bother to listen to EIA when more reliable predictions can be found on the daily astrology page?
Renewables – Apr 16
Earth, Wind & Fire
Solar energy conversion
Renewables branded a ‘crime’
Wanna bet the farm on carbon capture and sequestration?
But if you want to go on living on the planet Earth, then you’d better learn how to love sequestration. Because if sequestration doesn’t work, the planet is toast. (Excerpts from coverage of Senate hearing)
Geopolitics – Apr 15
Getting tough with the petro-elites
Global security: a vision for change
The Limitations and Necessity of Naval Power
Bush family does a Moon dance
The Last Oil Shock – book review
After years of work on peak oil, it is rare for me to find a book written for the general public that can teach me something I didn’t know before. But with David Strahan’s book, The Last Oil Shock, it was a different matter.
The power of green
A long and heartfelt appeal by the NY Times columnist for leadership at all levels of government for a reduction in use of fossil fuels in order to prevent climate disaster and political authoritarianism. (Excerpts)
Is sustainability a drag?
Only when others see with their own eyes that those seeking sustainability are having enjoyable lives will the switch seem worth making. Just one shot of genuine cheerfulness, humor and even exuberance goes much further than a year’s worth of pious sermons.
Climate – Apr 15
London, Tokyo submerged by rising seas- in “Second Life”
Planting right trees could combat warming
Arctic meltdown creates hot policy issues
Taking the climate fight to Megawatt Valley
‘Hypocritical’ NSW Govt expanding coal export facilities
Dysfunction – Apr 15
The new suburban poverty
Death in cyburbia
Unprovoked beatings of homeless soaring
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 15
A manifesto for sustainability in design
PO/climate fiction: A Friend of the Earth
She used to get mad…now she’s getting even: Katharine Hamnett and ethical fashion
Citified suburbs becoming model for Bay Area
North America – Apr 15
What Cheney energy task force talked about
Global warming called U.S. security threat
Canada’s Dion: Put industry on a carbon diet
