Climate – Feb 18

Vanishing glaciers offer clear evidence: scientists
Scientists sound alarm over melting Antarctic ice sheets
Oregon: floods, fire, rain predicted

Climate change and Oregon’s forests
Rising sea levels present China with ‘unimaginable challenges’

Dysfunction – Feb 18

Arctic melting, revealing new sources of oil and gas
NASA climatologist on suppression of science: 5 years from now, we’ll know less

UNICEF: U.S., British children worst off in industrialized world
Court overturns 22-year sentence for SUV fire

Virgin, the dynamo, and the prize

There are two big problems with the Earth Challenge prize. First, and most important, it sends the wrong message to those who are just waking up to the true threat of climate change: it says we can solve this problem by inventing the right techno-fix. …The truth is that we already have all the technology that we need to save ourselves.

Energy demand – Feb 18

In energy electricity conservation, California sees the light
Net uses 1+ percent of US electricity
US servers use more electricity than color TVs

Internet claims role in fighting global warming

CERA Conference – Feb 17

Big Oil frets over rising costs, tough access

Ex-oil minister dis on Iraq oil

Big Oil sees big risks as it places big bets

Peak Oil – Feb 17

It’s CERA Week — Houston, we have a problem

Global Warming: It’s All About Energy

Oil crisis constant concern

Housing – Feb 17

Another high-risk lender goes under

Housing Sales Drop in 40 States

Australian dream just a recession away

Biofuels – Feb 17

The real problem with corn-based ethanol

For Ethanol, the Future Is Now

British Millers Worried by Biofuel Subsidy

Biofuel demand unsustainable?

Confectioners questions EU biofuel policy

Community – Feb 17

Smaller Footprints, Cooler Stuff and More Cash

Relearning how to live as voluntary peasants

Escape from America

Coal – Feb 17

U.N. OKs CO2 injection into ocean floor

Coal can’t be clean – Flannery

Montana must turn coal from black to ‘green’

Rival firms dispute coal gasification