Solutions & sustainability – Mar 16

Profiles in municipal sustainability
Company fuels Second Harvest during Alberta’s fuel crisis
Earth: Home sweet home (animation)
Blogs can top the presses

Peak oil – March 17

Army foresees natural gas crisis
Peak Oil Task Force recommends Portland cut fossil fuel use

Prophecy, peak oil and the path for the faithful
Paul Roberts points out signs at energy crossroads
Movie review: “How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
Big Gav: Peak oil in 30 seconds
Lester Brown: The coming decline of oil

Peak Oil – 16 Mar

6th Intl ASPO conference: “Time to React?”

Could Saudi Arabia Be More Than 70% Depleted?

Oil companies running hard to stand still

ODAC: UK was net oil importer in 2006

Environment – Mar 16

Biodiversity extinction crisis looms says renowned biologist

U.S., Europe show gains in forests; rest of world loses ground

Destruction of Forests in Developing World
‘Out of Control’

Fishermen alarmed as sand closes Entrance port

Garbage & stuff – March 16

A short history of what man covets
most – STUFF
The end of garbage
Britons throw out a third of all food
Kovattana: A hoarders guide to the end of the world

The times they are a’changing

Innovation in hard times?
Do environmentalists conspire against their own interests?
Sharon Astyk: On market failure

Lovelock: ‘We should be scared stiff’

Oil industry – March 15

Halliburton moves CEO to oil-rich Dubai

Halliburton heeds the call to Go East

The new Seven Sisters: oil and gas giants dwarf western rivals

Arctic gas project costs top $16 billion

Coal – March 15

Report: Burying greenhouses gases will be key
Interview with MIT coal report co-chair
Afghan Mine mirrors nation’s descent into hell
Study: Coal industry faces bleak future

Biofuels – March 15

NPR: Biofuel threatening food supplies?
Energy solution is growing on trees in Sweden & N. Europe
Ethanol wrong biofuel option say US experts

Climate policy – March 15

The target wreckers in Labour govt (UK)
Survey: Climate change seen as threat
Swiss issue key climate report
NYT on McKibben: Renewing a call to act against climate change
Kudos to Fox News (for real!)

Climate science – March 15

World may get greener, then wilt, due to warming

Hansen grim on sea level rise
Climate report warns of drought, disease

Sneak preview of big report: Change is ‘already showing up’