Solutions & sustainability – Feb 11
In Niger, trees and crops turn back the desert
A call for a green Enlightenment
Portland stares down global warming
Down and dirty: earthen floors
Coin in the fuse box
By subverting the feedback we need concerning global warming, peak oil and a host of other environmental problems, those engaged in this public relations game of confusion risk letting the equivalent of a house fire occur in the biosphere.
C2C – the Emerging Energy Technologies Summit
The conference was a good place to see what some of the more creative thinkers (the speakers include two Nobel Laureates) see as the technology to get us out of our current mess. (Detailed report)
Carbon tax – Feb 9
Economists support fossil fuel tax
Global warming and hot air
Carville, Matalin spar over carbon tax
Australian carbon task force suggests trading
Climate policy – Feb 9
China drafts plan to curb emissions
Bush changing his views on global warming?
Reactions to IPCC report
Britain helps citizens atone for emissions
Climate activism – Feb 9
After the breakthrough: what do we do now?
World’s churches rally to cause
Book review: George Monbiot’s Heat
Conspiracy of silence on climate change
Energy round-up
Energy stories that we’re watching.
Peak oil – Feb 9
Interview: San Francisco peak oil resolution
Film review ‘A Crude Awakening-the Oil Crash’
Talk to the Soil Association Conference
ASPO newsletter for February
News discussion: Energy Bulletin
Transport – Feb 9
Swiss boat claims first solar Atlantic crossing
A rush-hour tax on urban drivers
EU plans carbon dioxide emissions limits
Depletion – Feb 9
Norway falls to 5th place among oil exporters
Graph of Norway drop (new)
Mexico’s top oil field declining fast – Pemex
Cantarell decline – is peak oil correct?
CIBC no longer predicting $100-a-barrel oil soon
Oil industry – Feb 9
Exxon Mobil has no more doubts on warming
Aramco chief – make fossil fuels ‘cleaner’
Big Oil cautious about clean-energy spending
Science journals focus on energy
Coverage by science journals is both heartening and discouraging.
Science special: sustainability and energy
Nature special on the IPCC report
