Solutions & sustainability – Mar 6
Miliband outlines ‘post-oil’ future
Time for a green industrial revolution’
Notes from the Meeting of International Forum on Globalisation
As warnings grow more dire, Berkeley Nobelist emerges as leader
Biofuels – March 5
UK Independent: The big green fuel lie
Brazil accused of growing biofuel under conditions like slave labor
Gasification may be key to U.S. ethanol
A moral solution to our energy problem
‘We’ve got to have more corn,’ expert says
Climate – March 5
UK plans to cut CO2 doomed – scientists
Hurricane heat
India’s ‘wet desert’ hit by climate change
WaPo talks collapse: Climate-change precipice
Oil producers – March 5
Chávez’s oil largesse winning fans abroad
Why Iraq’s new oil law won’t last
What would peace in the Middle East mean for the oil price?
A question of scale
The relocalization efforts of sustainability-oriented groups could easily be put in great peril by corporate interests seeking to squeeze out the last possible profits before the inevitable decline.
Coal – Mar 5
There’s change in the air at Drax
Industry closes anti-coal website
Sasol cools on South African imposts
Gujarat power plants may triple coal imports
Dethroning King Coal
Can the military go green?
The Pentagon runs on oil. Since the so-called Global War on Terror has started more than half of US military oil consumption has been occurring outside continental US.
Food & agriculture – Mar 5
Challenges, threats, and opportunities for sustainable agriculture
And on This Farm She Found a Future
Has Real Estate Lost Its Sizzle? Not on the Farm
NYC Fast-Food Chains Pull Calorie Info
Malaysia Proposes New Fast Food Rules
Peak oil & depletion – March 5
Appalling (“Last man standing” has failed)
Jay Hanson essay “Thermo/gene collision: On human nature, energy, and collapse”
Shell safety record in North Sea takes a hammering
Metal thieves steal kids’ slides, toilet roof in Japan
China – Feb 5
China goes for green before growth
High temperatures leave five million Chinese short of water
China soon to pass US as biggest GHG emitter
Why the free market fails consumers in sustainable energy innovation
The free market will ignore solutions that can’t turn a profit. The corollary is that the free market will ignore any solution that cannot be controlled, either through property interests (enforceable intellectual property, monopoly licenses, etc.) or because economies of scale demand centralized operation. This means that free market innovation is structurally incompatible with a huge portion of the universe of possible energy solutions.
Oil innovations pump new life into old wells
The subbhead (“Reports of oil’s demise are greatly exaggerated,”) indicates the point of view of the reporter: anti-peak oil, echoing CERA.
