Energy policy – March 4
Car-addicted Italians lag Europe on environment
B.C. energy plan pushes conservation, technology
China targets 9 countries for oil investment
A review of 2006 EIA Data; Expectations for Year Ahead
Oil prices set new records and the industry maintained a historically high level of activity in 2006. Energy agencies issued consensus forecasts that production would rise. Yet crude oil production was down and total liquids production was flat. The economists should be shaking in their boots.
Five questions for the 21st Century
“Matthew Simmons, a distinguished petroleum investor who is no liberal Democrat tree-hugger like me, he is one of the Bush family’s close friends. He’s a conservative Republican. He says we have 35 years of recoverable oil left.”
Biofuels – March 3
Ag dept: Ethanol to bump up food prices
Attack of the cereal killers
DOE to fund 6 cellulosic ethanol plants
BioenergyWiki – sustainability standards
CounterPunch: The ethanol scam
Transport – Mar 3
CO2 from shipping twice as much as airlines
NYC: the leisurely pleasures of a pedicab
Toronto gas shortage: Drivers urged to rethink
Plug-in hybrids for a sustainable future
U.S. – March 3
“Don’t build it and they will come”: new paradigm in the evolving West
US predicts steady increase for GHG emissions
Coal in cars: great fuel or climate foe?
Conserve magazine – “the new voice of doing more with less”
To meet the need for news and commentary on perhaps the greatest challenges facing the United States today – human-caused global warming and a projected energy shortage – Conserve Magazine was launched today.
The silence of the bees – March 2
Big Gav on the silence of the bees
NYT:
Honeybees vanish, leaving keepers in peril
Bee here, now – victim of industrial agriculture
Honeybees dying at alarming rate
State insect at risk
Deaths of honeybees puzzling
Food & agriculture – March 2
Cambodians make big gains with organic farming
Food of the future, and the future of food
Exploring a free kitchen in Delhi
Appreciation: The Soil and Health by Sir Albert Howard
Nuclear – March 2
Practical fusion, or just a bubble?
TOD: Is nuclear power a viable option?
Australian PM denies nuclear inquiry linked to Walker’s plans
U.S. – March 2
GAO: Govt routinely misses energy deadlines
Congressional hearing actually makes progress on energy (“Mr. Peak Oil”)
Help needed to draft U.S. energy proposals
Seattle’s
Nickels warns U.S. Senate to not rein in cities fighting global warming
House Democrats unveil new energy plan
Peak oil – March 2
TOD: Saudi Arabian oil declines 8% in 2006
Brunei thinking about life after the peak
Texas oilman Pickens says global oil production at its peak
