Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Because I am not a nice girl, or maybe not merely a nice girl, I feel that I should point out that the peak oil movement and the climate change movement are losing the race to plan the future, and to a large degree it is because we are refusing to be practical, also known as Machiavellian. Like all high minded people, we’re getting our asses kicked by the low-minded ones.
As concerns mount about climate change, getting new coal-fired plants built is harder than ever for US businesses.
Parbo criticises climate change reports
The Flannery verdict
Evangelical’s focus on climate draws fire of Christian Right
Hansen offers options
Channel 4 has got it wrong over climate change
The carbon folly: emissions trading
Getting over the cash and carry mentality
Bruce Sterling: My dot-green future is here
Activist hopes Missoula can break free from petroleum’s yoke
My Purim-spiel
Fierce competition for Libya’s black gold
Russia, pumped – the new petro empire
Selling Iraq by the barrel
Envoy warns Chavez about oil takeover
Chávez exploits oil wealth to push IMF aside
Car-addicted Italians lag Europe on environment
B.C. energy plan pushes conservation, technology
China targets 9 countries for oil investment
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.
“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.”
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
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
“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?
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
