Climate Policy – Mar 19

Courting air travel is unsustainable

Chinese Premier hedges on climate response

Canada’s Tories eliminate climate policy group

180 New Hampshire towns put climate on agenda

Gore gets 300k signatures on call for action
British Columbia aligns with California to create a green bloc along Pacific
Global opinion warming

Peak oil – March 19

Federal judge introduces lawyers to Peak Oil

Matt Simmons discusses PO on CNBC

Turkish diesel is close to 300$ a barrel
Pemex CEO: Company is in critical condition
New website for “How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”

Oil & gas producers – March 19

“Gas OPEC” to be created in Doha next month

Reckless actions have consequences…
Kuwait looking to natural gas, nuclear options

Biofuels – March 19

Ethanol’s growing list of enemies

Ecuador petition – Palmoil firms robbing Indian land
Jakarta: Alternative energy needs to focus on waste recycling

Food & agriculture – Mar 18

Core Historical Literature of Agriculture

Shocking Sugar

Farming in the city

Riot police battle farmers over new economic zones

A hoarders guide to the end of the world

Mention the word “hoarder” in a meeting of organizers and a collective shiver will run down our spines. A hoarding client’s clutter brings us head to head with a vision that is out of balance. Whether a result of unconscious compulsions, chronic shopping, expectations that don’t add up or an inability to reconcile cause with effect, it all comes to bear on the limits of space

Renewables – March 17

Abu Dhabi: Turning to the sun in the land of oil
Green energy enthusiasts also bet on fossil fuels

Can renewable energies be turned to a source of advantage by developing countries?

Tar sands – March 17

Report: Oil sands costs up 55 percent

Oil versus tar: Here’s where it gets sticky

Fort MacMurray oil

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