U.S. – Feb 28
The Economist: Here’s hoping it’s Gore to the rescue
Gov. Schweitzer speaks before Senate panel
US’s Iraq oil grab is a done deal
Air Force to certify all B-52s for GTL-blend use
Peak oil – Feb 28
Colin Campbell on the Isle of Man
TOD: That cubic mile
Kunstler critiques urban planning, oil shortage
Aus. Climate policy – Feb 28
Energy association calls for carbon emissions trading scheme
For farmers, money does grow on trees
Call for renewable energy taskforce
Behind the climate curve in Australia
Miner attacks conservationists
Methane Hydrates – Feb 28
Alaska Fire and Ice
Anomalies caused by ancient event
Slope test well yields ‘gold mine of data’
Japan, Canada to Start Test-Production
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 27
Challenges and advances in Solar Cooking
Cleaner consumption and the low-carbon life
Making green computing even greener
Local Currencies: Replacing Scarcity with Trust
Report of change
Lost in the bush 40 minutes from Auckland
Food & agriculture – Feb 27
How global warming goes against the grain
Michael Ableman – Fields of Plenty
Land Trusts – Keeping Local Agriculture Alive
Linking Land Use Planning and the Food Environment
US Economics – Feb 27
Deindustrialization and Home Foreclosures
The second Great Depression
A Gathering Perfect Storm?
Record numbers in severe poverty
Geopolitics – Feb 27
Three US reasons to attack Iran
Iraqi Ministry Casts Doubt on Oil Law
Who wins in Iraq?
Economics – Feb 27
China Stocks Sink 8.8% on Crackdown Fears
Asian Stocks Fall after China’s rout
U.S. stocks plunge to worst 1-day drop since 2001
The DCDC Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036
“The Golden Age of cheap energy has passed. Competition for energy supplies will dominate the economic landscape during the next 30 years… The prospect, apparent or real, of the peak production of oil during the timeframe out to 2035 and progressive diminution of output thereafter will intensify competition for remaining resources.”
Hubbert on the Nature of Growth
Testimony at Hearing regarding the (US) National Energy Conservation Policy Act of 1974, before the Subcommittee on the Environment of the committee on Interior and Insular Affairs House of Representatives. June 6, 1974.
The silliest possible way to save the earth
Perhaps it is just sour grapes that I have no inventing skills, and thus am doomed to poverty and obscurity, but Richard Branson’s $25 million climate change prize reminds me of the time our refrigerator broke down.
