Renewables – Mar 8
What’s So Bad About Big?
PG&E sees power in North Coast waves
Analysis: Nile Basin energy future
Green energy deals ‘mislead customers’
Solutions & Sustainability – Mar 8
The Psychology of Energy Efficiency
Bay Localize
A Greener and Healthier Holi
Kinsale joins Willits in seeking energy self-sufficiency
Corporate hippies seek bliss in ‘Environmental’ Economy
Singing the Vegetable Opera
Has there ever been a financial collapse with brighter or louder warning signals?
Peak Oil – Mar 8
A Nosedive Into the Desert
Three new presentations from Matthew Simmons
Announcing the CERA News Center Archive
New documentary: “Escape from Suburbia”
Hubbert speaks!
Hubbert speaks!
Happy Birthday Peak Oil! Commemorating the 51st Anniversary of M. King Hubbert’s Seminal Speech, the Hubbert Tribute site has released a 1976 video clip of Hubbert speaking about world oil depletion and explaining the concept of peak oil.
Exxon Mobil Plans 20 New Projects
Exxon Mobil is planning to implement twenty new projects over the next three years, which are expected to produce a total of 1 million bpd.
False reporting of peak oil
Technical background from an oil geologist that puts the New York Times article into perspective.
Climate policy – Mar 7
UK Royal Society on Energy for a sustainable future
NZs energy future in a carbon-constrained world
Forest owners/investors set to lose $2.7 billion
Green group seeks afghan refuge
Peak oil task force in Portland releases report
The report’s key recommendation is that Portland take action to reduce fossil fuel use by half over the next 25 years. The report finds the best path to this goal is in accelerating current initiatives such as high-density planning and zoning, public transportation and acquiring electricity from renewable resources
Round in Circles: a review of David C. Korten’s The Great Turning
David Korten’s 2006 book The Great Turning has been hailed as a groundbreaking work for progressives seeking to deal with peak oil and other aspects of the predicament of industrial civilization. Is Korten’s theory the panacea some peak oil advocates suggest, or does it contain a different agenda? First of a three-part series.
Oil Industry – Mar 7
Castro’s revenge: The Cuban oil rush
BPs Reserves depleted, except in Russia
Exxon plans 25 new projects in next three years
Russia, pumped
Share stampede as Siberian reserves confirmed
Biofuels – Mar 6
The Big Green Fuel Lie
A switch to biofuels will not save the planet
Oil giant Chevron bets on biodiesel
Success Derails Biofuels Bandwagon
Japan to receive bulk of Brazil’s ethanol exports
