Oil Quiz – Test Your Knowledge
This Quiz presents the Peak Oil story in a different format. Discussion questions and additional references are provided at the end, so that the material can be used in a classroom setting.
Deep economy: Localism, innovation and knowing what’s what
The steps Bill [McKibben proposes] — local food and local energy — are generally good ones, but they alone are not going to get us anywhere close to one planet living. For that, we need truly radical change, delivered through widespread innovation and systemic redesign, and going far beyond the sorts of impacts we can create though individual consumer actions.
Oil exporters – Mar 25
China to become a top oil client: Chavez
China’s Hu heads to Russia urgently seeking fuel
Iran asking oil clients not to pay in dollar
Ecuador suffering huge losses from oil protests
Mortgage meltdown – Mar 25
Mortgage crisis overwhelming credit counselors
Foreclosures Force Suburbs to Fight Blight
Subprime lenders push back
Council tenants fall victim to predatory lenders
US Federal Reserve: We could have done more
Gore stays cool on the hot seat
The debate that is taking place in the Congress is truly an historical debate: it is a rare debate indeed when it can truly be said that the future of the entire planet turns on the outcome of that debate. [excerpts]
Climate – March 25
As Arctic melts, nations line up for oil, other rights
Antarctic melting may be speeding up
Amazon ‘faces more deadly droughts’
Why the right goes nuclear over global warming
I’m not buying what Al Gore’s selling
Population – March 25
Starting from where you are – Sharon Astyk on having four children
The Nation: Europeans do it better
Biofuels – March 25
Lester Brown: Massive diversion of U.S. grain to fuel cars is raising world food prices
WaPo: Corn can’t solve our problem
China’s corn exports may plunge as local demand rises
Al Gore and the wedges game
Whether they realize it or not, policymakers are deeply engaged in the “wedges” game – imagining how to replace energy technologies that produce greenhouse emissions with less-harmful alternatives. But we have to play the wedges game fair.
U.S. energy policy – March 25
US Congress holds hearing on oil dependence
McFarlane: Renewable energy is best solution to terror threats
Big Oil buys Berkeley
Energy policy makes strange bedfellows
Transport – March 25
In Marin, walkers, bikers & hikers rule the road
China’s gas use to increase 24% by 2010
Transatlantic open skies deal will undo CO2 curbs, say Greens
Environmental discourse and the paradox of the open society
How does one fight back without destroying the very principles of openness that make it possible to draw on the talents of all while safeguarding freedom of expression?
