Palm biodiesel – Apr 4
Palm oil failing as biofuel
Palm oil is not a failure as a biofuel
The biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now
Climate – Apr 4
Carbon trading won’t work
Tourism council launches climate debate with global ad campaign
Corporations whacked with the environment stick
Clean air is for liberals
“The Great Global Warming Swindle” debunked
Warning: Recession ahead
The economic health of the United States is at risk, with problems such as a real estate bust and the oil factor. Conclusion: a U.S. recession is highly probable and will spread to its trading partners.
The GAO report
The report is clearly a milestone on our journey through the oil age for it is the first time the staff of a major government agency has looked at the issue and concluded that peak oil is real and, if it occurs soon, could cause a world-wide recession.
Biofuels – Apr 4
Foreign Affairs: Biofuels could starve the poor
Castro: US to starve world
Monsanto 2Q profit boosted by corn sales
Fertilizer shortage this spring due to ethanol
Transport – Apr 4
Stay on Track
China tests for sixth railway speed boost
UK government U-turns on Gatwick Express
Mitsui wins $763 million order for Saudi railway
IT in public transport integration
Nuclear – Apr 4
Nuclear power revisited in California
Oil prices, CO2 concerns to spur nuclear renaissance: CERA
Food & agriculture – Apr 4
Heinberg: Why peak oil mandates a new farming paradigm
Oil, climate threaten food supply: B.C. report
Newsweek gets organic
What’s happening to the bees
Climate – Apr 3
Reports from 4 fronts in the war on warming
Tax on carbon emissions gains support
Brotherhood of St Lawrence calls for action
Aus business: No planet, no profits
NZ govt applauds businesses acting on climate
Trends – April 3
Barbara Ehrenreich: How we learned to stop having fun
Projecting population, fertility and HIV/AIDS
In BC, life begins at 30
Geopolitics – Apr 3
Risks of rising oil nationalism
Puplava: The politics of energy
Venezuela signs oil deal with China
Water – Apr 3
Mike Davis: Denial in the desert
Drought means no palms for Palm Sunday
Asia’s river systems face collapse
Malaysia makes rainwater collection mandatory for big roofs
